Humboldt County School District
Employee Internet Acceptable Use Agreement
As a condition of the privilege to use Humboldt County School District access to any public or other networks such as the Internet for the current academic year, I understand and agree to the following: 1. The network may not be used to download, copy, or store any software, shareware, or freeware. In order to avoid copyright issues, this prohibition applies to any such downloading, copying or storage, regardless of copyright status, unless approved by a network administrator. Moreover, only the network administrator is authorized to consent to the terms of any software license with respect to downloaded programs.
2. That with the exception of District approved educational software, users may not add any software or applications to the School District’s network or computers, or add to or modify any existing software or applications, without the express permission of the network administrator. Any software which is installed must be properly licensed from the copyright owner thereof, and any modifications must comply with the terms of the applicable license(s).
3. The network may not be used for any commercial purposes. 4. The network may not be used for advertising, political campaigning, or political lobbying. 5. The network may not be used for any activity, or to transmit any material, that violates United States, Nevada State or local laws. This includes, but is not limited to; fraudulent acts, violations of copyright laws, and any threat or act of intimidation or harassment against another person. 6. The School District is a place of tolerance and good manners. Use of the network or any School District computers or facilities for hate mail, defamatory statements, statements intended to injure or humiliate others by disclosure of personal information (whether true or false), personal attacks on others, and statements expressing animus towards any person or group by reason of race, color, religion is expressly forbidden. Network users may not use vulgar, derogatory, or obscene language. Network users may not post anonymous messages or forge e-mail or other messages. 7. Users are strongly advised to use caution about revealing any information on the Internet which would enable others to exploit them or their identities: this includes last names, home addresses, Social Security numbers, passwords, credit card numbers or financial institution account information, and photographs. Under no circumstances should a user reveal such information about another person without that person’s express or prior consent. 8. Network users may not log on to someone else’s account, attempt to access another user’s files, or permit anyone else to log on to their own accounts without express permission to do so in unique circumstances. Users may not try to gain unauthorized access (“hacking”) to the files or computer systems of any other person or organization. However, employees must be aware that any information stored on or communicated through the School District network may be susceptible to “hacking” by a third party. 9. Network users may not access Web sites, newsgroups, or chat areas that contain material that is obscene or that promotes illegal acts. Likewise, use of the network to access or process pornographic material (whether visual or written), or material which contains dangerous recipes, formulas or instructions, is prohibited. 10. While incidental personal use of the district network by staff may be permitted, such incidental use will not be deemed a waiver of the School District’s right to prohibit all such use, either on an individually-applicable or on a generally-applicable basis. All incidental personal use is subject to the requirements of this policy. Incidental personal use is not to occur during instructional periods, or at any point in which a given staff member has oversight responsibility for students. 11. Users may not engage in “spamming” (sending irrelevant or inappropriate electronic communications individually or en masse) or participate in electronic chain letters other than for official school district purposes. 12. Users who maliciously access, alter, delete, damage or destroy any computer system, computer network, computer program, or data will be subject to criminal prosecution as well as to disciplinary action by the
School District, up to and including termination. This includes, but is not limited to; using proxy sites to bypass filtering and/monitoring, changing or deleting another user's account; changing the password of another user; using an unauthorized account; damaging any files; altering the district network system; destroying, modifying, vandalizing, defacing or abusing hardware, software, furniture or any School District property. Users may not develop programs that harass other users or infiltrate a computer or computer system and/or damage the software components of a computer or computer system (e.g., create viruses, worms) is prohibited. 13. Users may not intentionally disrupt information network traffic or crash the network and connected systems; they must not degrade or disrupt equipment or system performance. They must not download or save excessively large files without the express approval of the network administrator. 14. Users may not plagiarize, which is a serious academic offense. Plagiarism is “taking ideas or writings from another person and offering them as your own.” Credit must always be given to the person who created the article or the idea. 15. Users may not copy any copyrighted or licensed software from the Internet or from the network without the express permission of the copyright holder: software must be approved first and then purchased or licensed before it can legally be used. 16. Users may not take data, equipment, software or supplies (paper, toner cartridges, disks, etc.) for their own personal use. Such taking will be treated as theft. Use of School District printers and paper must be reasonable. 17. Humboldt County School District assumes no responsibility for student, faculty or staff websites created and hosted outside of the district network. In consideration for the privilege of using Humboldt County School District access and in consideration for having access to the public networks, I hereby release the Humboldt County School District and its staff, administrators, operators and any institutions with which they are affiliated from any and all claims and damages of any nature arising from my use, or inability to use the Humboldt County School District access. Staff Name: ___________________________________ School/Location_____________________ Print: last Name, First Name I have read the above Employee Internet Acceptable Use Agreement and the attached District Policy and agree to abide by their provisions. I agree that violations of the agreement may result in consequences as detailed in Humboldt County School District Policy 3085. Staff Signature: ______________________________________ Date: _______________________