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Technology Acceptable Use Procedure

Purpose

The purpose of the 黑料正能量鈥檚 (WCC) Technology Acceptable Use Procedure (TAUP) is to enhance and support the educational mission of the college. This procedure is subordinate to all applicable laws of the State of North Carolina and the United States of America. All students, faculty, staff, and public patrons are responsible for using WCC鈥檚 technological resources in an effective, ethical, and lawful manner to ensure that the College maintains confidentiality, integrity, and availability of systems and information assets.

Procedure

The goal is to promote educational excellence for all 黑料正能量 students, faculty, staff, and patrons by facilitating resource sharing, and accessing outside information and research while encouraging technological innovation and worldwide communication. The following guidance on acceptable and unacceptable use is not intended to be all-inclusive in a fast-changing technological environment but should provide the basis for the determination of what is and what is not acceptable regarding technology usage.

Acceptable Use:

• Use consistent with the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) for the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina (MCNC). WCC uses MCNC as its Internet Service Provider (ISP) and is therefore subject to its established AUP. MCNC鈥檚 AUP is available on its website: .
• Use related to administrative and other support activities considered consistent with the mission of 黑料正能量.
• Use for purposes of, or in support of, education and research.

Unacceptable Use:

• Use of WCC鈥檚 technological resources that violates federal, state and local laws or statues.
• Use inconsistent with MCNC鈥檚 AUP.
• Use of WCC鈥檚 technological resources, which provides or assists in gaining unauthorized or inappropriate access to systems, networks, software, or data at WCC or any other sites.
• Use of the Internet for any illegal activity, including violation of copyrights, patents, trademarks, software licensing,聽or other contracts.
• Use of the Internet or other technology for financial or commercial gain, including but not limited to gambling.
• Use for activities that interfere with the ability of others to use WCC鈥檚 technological resources effectively.
• Use for activities that result in the loss of another person鈥檚 work or unauthorized access to another person鈥檚 work.
• Use of another person鈥檚 account.
• Divulging passwords to anyone else.
• Divulging personal, confidential, or sensitive information.
• Use for distribution of obscene, pornographic, abusive or threatening messages via electronic聽communications of any means.
• Use for a defamatory, libelous, or slanderous purpose.
• Use in a discriminatory manner, to promote discrimination or incite hate.
• Use for distribution of chain letters or broadcasting to lists of individuals in such a manner that might cause congestion on the network or cause College networks to be blocked by external systems due to 鈥渟pamming鈥� or other misuse聽(unsolicited bulk messages聽or advertising for example).
• Reconfiguring or tampering with the operation of the College鈥檚 computer systems and components, networks, and wide area networks to which the college subscribes, including the Internet. This includes any circumvention of IT security systems.
• Cyberharassment, which includes Cyberbullying,聽is defined by the National Conference of State Legislatures as follows: 鈥淐yberharassment differs from cyberstalking in that it may generally be defined as not involving a credible threat.聽 Cyberharassment usually pertains to threatening or harassing email messages, instant messages, or to blog entries or websites dedicated solely to tormenting an individual.鈥澛� Reference North Carolina General Statues 14-196(b) and 14-458.1.
• Cyberstalking, which is聽defined by the National Conference of State Legislatures as follows: 鈥淐yberstalking is the use of the Internet, email or other electronic communications to stalk, and generally refers to a pattern of threating or malicious behaviors. Cyberstalking may be considered the most dangerous of the three types of Internet harassment, based on a posing credible threat of harm.鈥澛� Reference N.C. General Statue 14-196.3.
• Sending malware, viruses, worms, Trojan horses, email bombs, spyware, adware, keyloggers, or other harmful software code.

黑料正能量 reserves the right and will exercise its responsibility to record and/or monitor its systems for acceptable use. This may include (except where prohibited by law) examination of the content (including private or personal content) stored with email and data files of any users, and examination of the access history of any users while on 黑料正能量 systems or devices. WCC makes every effort to protect itself from threats and vulnerabilities and expects all users of its systems to adhere to all procedures governing use of technology.

Violations of this procedure may result in a reduction of access to WCC technological resources or complete denial of access to WCC technological resources. IT staff will communicate all violations to the appropriate Vice President. Violators will be subject to college disciplinary processes and the College may pursue legal action. Action taken by WCC does not preclude the possibility of legal action taken by others.

MODIFICATIONS
WCC reserves the right to modify this procedure at any time.