Unacceptable Use 3.1 The following is considered unacceptable use of the trust’s ICT facilities by any member of the trust community. Any breach of this policy may result in disciplinary or behaviour proceedings 3.2 Unacceptable use of the trust’s ICT facilities includes the below list. This is not an exhaustive list. The trust reserves the right to amend this list at any time. The trust will use professional judgement to determine whether any act or behaviour not on the list above is considered unacceptable use of the trust’s ICT facilities • Using the trust’s ICT facilities to breach intellectual property rights or copyright • Using the trust’s ICT facilities to bully or harass someone else, or to promote unlawful discrimination • Breaching the trust’s policies or procedures • Any illegal conduct, or statements which are deemed to be advocating illegal activity • Online gambling, inappropriate advertising, phishing and/or financial scams • Accessing, creating, storing, linking to, or sending material that is pornographic, offensive, obscene or otherwise inappropriate or harmful • Consensual and non-consensual sharing of nude and semi-nude images and/or videos and/or livestreams (also known as sexting or youth-produced sexual imagery) • Activity which defames or disparages the trust, or risks bringing the trust into disrepute • Sharing confidential information about the trust, its pupils, or other members of the trust community • Connecting any device to the trust’s ICT network without approval from authorised personnel • Setting up any software, applications, or web services on the trust’s network without approval by authorised personnel, or creating or using any program, tool or item of software designed to interfere with the functioning of the ICT facilities, accounts or data • Gaining, or attempting to gain, access to restricted areas of the network, or to any password-protected information, without approval from authorised personnel • Allowing, encouraging, or enabling others to gain (or attempt to gain) unauthorised access to the trust’s ICT facilities • Causing intentional damage to ICT facilities • Removing, deleting or disposing of ICT equipment, systems, programs or information without permission by authorised personnel • Causing a data breach by accessing, modifying, or sharing data (including personal data) to which a user is not supposed to have access, or without authorisation • Using inappropriate or offensive language • Promoting a private business, unless that business is directly related to the trust • Using websites or mechanisms to bypass the trust’s filtering mechanisms • Engaging in content or conduct that is radicalised, extremist, racist, anti-Semitic, or discriminatory in any other way • Leaving ICT equipment anywhere other than on your person, at work or at home e.g., in the car • Using a (generic portable solid-state data storage device): data stick, pen drive, thumb drive, USB drive
Acceptable Use Policy Agreement I understand that I must use school IT systems in a responsible way, to ensure that there is no risk to my safety or to the safety and security of the IT systems and other users. • I understand that the school will monitor my use of the IT systems, email and other digital communications. • I will treat my username and password like my toothbrush – I will not share it, nor will I try to use any other person’s username and password. • I will be aware of “stranger danger”, when I am communicating on-line. • I will not disclose or share personal information about myself or others when on-line. • If I arrange to meet people off-line that I have communicated with on-line, I will do so in a public place and take an adult with me. • I will immediately report any unpleasant or inappropriate material or messages or anything that makes me feel uncomfortable when I see it on-line. • I understand that the school IT systems are primarily intended for educational use and that I will not use the systems for personal or recreational use unless I have permission to do so. • I will not try (unless I have permission) to make large downloads or uploads that might take up internet capacity and prevent other users from being able to carry out their work. • I will not use the school IT systems for on-line gaming, on-line gambling, internet shopping, file sharing, or video broadcasting (e.g. YouTube), unless I have permission of a member of staff to do so. • I will respect others’ work and property and will not access, copy, remove or otherwise alter any other user’s files, without the owner’s knowledge and permission. • I will be polite and responsible when I communicate with others, I will not use strong, aggressive or inappropriate language and I appreciate that others may have different opinions. • I will not take or distribute images of anyone without their permission. • I will only use my personal hand held / external devices (mobile phones / USB devices etc) in school if I have permission. I understand that, if I do use my own devices in school, I will follow the rules set out in this agreement, in the same way as if I was using school equipment. • I understand the risks and will not try to upload, download or access any materials which are illegal or inappropriate or may cause harm or distress to others, nor will I try to use any programmes or software that might allow me to bypass the filtering / security systems in place to prevent access to such materials.
Reasonable Suspicion Testing All Employees Performing Safety-Sensitive Functions A. Reasonable suspicion testing for alcohol or controlled substances may be directed by the Employer for any employee performing safety-sensitive functions when there is reason to suspect that alcohol or controlled substance use may be adversely affecting the employee’s job performance or that the employee may present a danger to the physical safety of the employee or another. B. Specific objective grounds must be stated in writing that support the reasonable suspicion. Examples of specific objective grounds include but are not limited to: 1. Physical symptoms consistent with alcohol and/or controlled substance use; 2. Evidence or observation of alcohol or controlled substance use, possession, sale, or delivery; or 3. The occurrence of an accident(s) where a trained manager, supervisor or lead worker suspects alcohol or other controlled substance use may have been a factor.
Acceptable Use Policy With respect to the Cloud Service, Customer will not: (a) disassemble, decompile, reverse-engineer, copy, translate or make derivative works, (b) transmit any content or data that is unlawful or infringes any intellectual property rights, or (c) circumvent or endanger its operation or security.
Acceptable Use You agree that you are independently responsible for complying with all applicable laws in all of your activities related to your use of the Service, regardless of the purpose of the use, and for all communications you send through the Service. We and our Service Providers have the right but not the obligation to monitor and remove communications content that we find in our sole discretion to be objectionable in any way. In addition, you are prohibited from using the Service for communications or activities that: (a) violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation; (b) promote hate, violence, racial intolerance, or the financial exploitation of a crime; (c) defame, abuse, harass or threaten others; (d) include any language or images that are bigoted, hateful, racially offensive, vulgar, obscene, indecent or discourteous; (e) infringe or violate any copyright, trademark, right of publicity or privacy or any other proprietary right under the laws of any jurisdiction; (f) impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure; (g) facilitate any viruses, trojan horses, worms or other computer programming routines that may damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or information; (h) constitute use of any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy the Service or the portion of the Site through which the Service is offered without our prior written permission; (i) constitute use of any device, software or routine to bypass technology protecting the Site or Service, or interfere or attempt to interfere, with the Site or the Service; or (j) may cause us or our Service Providers to lose any of the services from our internet service providers, payment processors, or other vendors. We encourage you to provide notice to us by the methods described in Section 6 of the General Terms above of any violations of the General Terms or the Agreement generally.