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Sequoia Schools (designated as School) has established a policy effective November 17, 2009 with regard to access of the Internet and the School’s private Intranet.
Certain employees may be provided with access to the Internet to assist them in performing their jobs. The Internet can be a valuable source of information and research. Use of the Internet, however, must be tempered with common sense and good judgment. The School’s Intranet is a private information system of the School and its intended use is strictly for business purposes.
Any individuals using either system expressly consent to monitoring of their activities. Anyone using either system in violation of the School’s Internet usage policy may be subject to disciplinary action, including possible discharge. Furthermore, employees could be exposed to civil and criminal liability. The School reserves the right to amend or modify this policy at any time as may be required.
1. The School is not responsible for material viewed or downloaded by users from the Internet. The Internet is a worldwide network of computers that contains millions of pages of information. Users are cautioned that many of these pages include offensive, sexually explicit, and inappropriate material. Even innocuous search requests may lead to sites with highly offensive content.
2. Employees must not deliberately perform acts unrelated to legitimate business interests that waste computer resources. These acts include, but are not limited to, sending mass mailings or chain letters, spending excessive amounts of time on the Internet unrelated to business, playing games, engaging in online chat groups, listening to streaming audio (radio, music, etc.) or streaming video (News casts, TV, Movie Trailers, etc.),or otherwise creating unnecessary network traffic. Because audio, video and picture files require significant storage space, files of this, or any other sort, shall not be downloaded unless they are business-related.
3. The computers and computer accounts provided to employees are to assist them in the performance of their jobs. Employees should not have an expectation of privacy or ownership in anything they create, store, send, or receive on the computer system. The computer system belongs to the School, and may only be used for business purposes. The School has the right, but not the duty, to monitor any and all of the aspects of its computer system, including, but not limited to: monitoring sites visited by employees on the Internet, email traffic, any document created or stored on the computer system, and installed software applications.
4. The School may use software to identify inappropriate Internet sites, including but not limited to sexually explicit sites. Such sites may be blocked from access by the School’s network. In the event you nonetheless encounter inappropriate material while browsing on the Internet, immediately disconnect from the site, regardless of whether the site is subject to the School’s blocking software.
5. Material that is unlawful (including, but not limited to, illegal copies of software, music files, movie files or malware {malicious software}, such as computer virus, Trojan horse, spyware, keyloggers, etc.), harassing, embarrassing, sexually explicit, profane, obscene, intimidating, defamatory, or otherwise offensive (including offensive material concerning sex, race, color national origin, religion, age, disability, or other characteristic protected by law), or in violation of the School’s equal employment opportunity policy and its policies against sexual or other harassment may not be loaded, downloaded from the Internet, displayed or stored on the School’s computers. Employees encountering or receiving this kind of material should immediately report the incident to Administration. The School’s equal employment opportunity policy and its policies against sexual or other harassment apply fully to the use of the Internet and any violation of those policies is grounds for discipline up to and including discharge.
6. Employees may not illegally copy material protected under copyright law or make that material available to others for copying. You are responsible for complying with copyright law and applicable licenses that may apply to software, music files (.mp3, .wma, .rm, .ra, etc.), movie files (ripped copies of movies/videos to .avi, .mpg, .wmv, .mov, etc.), graphics, documents, messages and other material you wish to download or copy. You may not agree to a license or download any material for which a registration fee is charged without first obtaining the express written permission of the School.
7. To ensure security and to avoid the spread of viruses, employees connecting to our network from a computer not supplied by the School, must have up-to-date virus protection, a secure VPN connection, and use a hardware-based router or software firewall. The School will provide, upon request, VPN (Virtual Private Network) client software for installation on your personal computer. However, all other security software is the responsibility of the end user.
8. Files obtained from sources outside the School, including disks brought from home; files downloaded from the Internet, bulletin boards, or other online services; files attached to e-mail and files provided by clients or vendors may contain dangerous computer viruses that may damage the School’s computer network. If you suspect that a virus has been introduced into the School’s network, notify the IS Dept. immediately.
9. Information posted on the School’s Intranet is property of the School. Any copying, or unauthorized use, of such information is strictly prohibited without expressed written consent of the School.
10. All employees must acknowledge that they have read and understood the above computer and internet usage policy. |
