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Computer Network Acceptable Use Policy

MPSH is pleased to provide you with access to the Internet, email and digital communications. For those new to this technology, the internet is apowerful, world wide computer network that can be used to send electronic mail, to view and display text, still and moving images, and sound on the World Wide Web. Internet technology changes constantly. As the Internet changes, MPSH policy will change. The following guidelines will provide you with basic information about your rights and responsibilities as a User of MPSH's Internet facilities.

  1. These guidelines and the policies of MPSH may adopt in the future are designed to make the school's Internet resources available to the entire MPSH community and to help you use those resources responsibly. Your cooperation and adherence to these guidelines and policies is a condition of continued access to MPSH's Internet resources. Violation of MPSH Internet Access Policy may result in disciplinary action and may have significant legal consequences.
  2. The same laws school rules and codes of conduct that apply to your conduct in general apply to your conduct on the Internet. In particular contrary to what you may have heard, Internet communications, such as email and websites can be used to commit acts that are illegal (the individual goes to jail) and unlawful (the individual gets sued). The enalty for illegal actions that may be committed using computers can be substantial. For example, a student in Central Newfoundland was placed on probation for illegal access of networked computers.
  3. Your User ID and password are keys to accessing data about you and your work for school. In the wrong hands, your password and User ID can be used to impersonate you on line and take unauthorized action in your name. Accordingly, except for authorized school system students, it is against MPSH policy for anyone to disclose any User ID or password, including their own, or to have, use, or attempt to use any other person's User ID or password under any circumstances. If you believe that anyone has learned your User ID and Password, you should inform the administration at once, and follow their instructions.
  4. You have Internet access through the school in order to help you in your work for MPSH and in related academic pursuits. If the school's system carries personal messages, its resources are unavailable for others who are using the system to do work for the school. As such, it is against school policy for MPSH's Internet resources to be used for personal messages or to carry on unrelated business. You should know that as a general rule, students do not have a right to privacy in electronic communications they send or recieve using the computer systems provided by their employer.
  5. The Principal is in charge of when and how the school's name, seal and logo are used. Accordingly, you should not post anything to the Internet or send any electronic communication in the name of the Mount Pear High School without prior consent of the Administration.
  6. MPSH believes in free speech and the free exchange of ideas. Accordingly, the school will not censor electronic communication and it cannot insulate you from receiving communications that you may find offensive. However, MPSH is also committed to providing its student with a safe, orderly, and productive working environment. Transmission of any threatening, intimidating or discriminatory communication that reveals private facts about another person without that person's permissions, or any communication that is intended to harass, intimidate or annoy another member of the MPSH community or to interfere with any students ability to perform his or her job's duties is against school policy and may well be a violation of civil or criminal law. The school has the right to review electronic communications made using its facilities, and it may monitor those communications as necessary to ensure a safe secure and orderly campus environment and to promote the interests of the MPSH Community. If you receive any threatening communication from any source, inside or outside the school, you should report it immediately to the Administration. If that communication comes to in electronic form you should also inform your teacher.
  7. The Technical Staff may regulate the volume of email traffic that any User sends or receives, as it sees fit, in order to make sure that all members of the school community have access to their fair share of the school's Internet resources. In order to insure that MPSH's computer facilities and Internet access are available for the community's productive use, school policy prohibits:

(a) The use or the school's computer facilities to access any of the following types of web sites without the prior written consent of the User's supervisor:

  1. Any site displaying sexually explicit or pornographic content of any kind;
  2. On-line games, including but not limited to gambling, fortune telling, lotteries, sweepstakes, and other games of chance;
  3. Any site promoting violence, the use of controlled substances or other illegal activity;
  4. Any site promoting a multi-level marketing, home based business or other money-making scheme, mass solicitations [colloquially known as "Spam"], chain letters; or other similar communications; and

(b) The use of MPSH Internet resources to transmit or propagate email transmissions such as broadcast email, chain letters, mass market advertisements [spamming] or any kind without the prior written consent of the User's supervisor.