The Internet services provided by Goodenough College may not be used by an individual, organisation or its members for any of the activities described below:

Creation or transmission, or causing the transmission, of any offensive, obscene or indecent images, data or other material, or any data capable of being resolved into obscene or indecent images or material.

Creation or transmission of material with the intent to cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
Creation or transmission with the intent to defraud.
Creation or transmission of defamatory material.
Creation or transmission of material such that this infringes the copyright of another person.
Creation or transmission of unsolicited bulk or marketing material (spam) to users of networked facilities or services, save where that material is embedded within, or is otherwise part of, a service to which the user or their User Organisation has chosen to subscribe.
Deliberate unauthorised access to networked facilities or services.
Deliberate activities having, with reasonable likelihood, any of the following characteristics: Corrupting or destroying other users’ data, Violating the privacy of other users, Disrupting the work of other users, Wasting staff time and resources, Deliberately consuming large quantities of the available bandwidth and denying service to other users (for example, by running applications such as Zoom or Netflix for long periods) or equipment, Connecting an item of networking hardware to the College wired or Wi-Fi networks, other misuse of the College Internet service or networked resources, such as the introduction of viruses or other harmful software.

Liability#

Any IT equipment or service provided by Goodenough College (including software) is used entirely at the risk of the user. Goodenough College will not be liable for any loss, damage or inconvenience arising directly or indirectly from the use of any of its computing facilities. Although every effort will be made to maintain services, facilities and the integrity of information and software, Goodenough College accepts no responsibility for the malfunction of any computing facilities, the loss of any data or software or the breach of any security mechanisms.

Code of Conduct#

All users must take all reasonable steps to protect the security of their usernames and passwords. You must not make your username and/or password available to anyone else nor use any other user’s username and password.

Impersonation of another user to gain access to facilities or to disguise their identity is a very serious breach of these regulations.

All users should protect their personal information when using social networking sites such as Facebook. In particular, care should be taken to ensure protection of privacy, protection of identity and avoidance of identity theft.

Sanctions#

The Goodenough College IT Department reserves the right to withdraw IT services from any user:

• While investigating a breach of these regulations or any other College regulations and disciplinary procedures.
• To maintain the operational integrity of IT equipment and services.
• As a result of any criminal investigation.

Any infringement of these Computing Regulations will constitute an offence. This may result in one or more of the following:

• Revocation of the right to use computing facilities.
• Expulsion from the College.
• Criminal or civil prosecution.

By using Goodenough College’s Internet and IT Services, all users are agreeing to follow this Acceptable Use Policy