These guidelines have been established to assist you in making
responsible decisions regarding your use of computing resources
provided by or through Haverford College.
Haverford College provides access to computing and
information resources for students, staff, faculty, and certain
other users in support of Haverford College's mission of teaching,
research, public service, and in support of the activities of
the College community. When activating an account, a user implicitly
affirms that they will abide by the broadest interpretation of
the following policies. Users acknowledge the obligation of College
staff to monitor computer use to protect College computing systems,
as well as the right to restrict or rescind computing privileges
for cause, such as failure to follow this policy for responsible
computing. Users are further bound by all pertinent State, and
Federal policies and statutes.
You Should:
Be aware that Haverford's computer resources are
operated primarily for the core educational mission of the tri-college
community. Computer resources are expensive to support, and the
College cannot afford to offer its full range of information content
and services or to provide support for those outside the immediate
community of primary clientele. For example, Haverford Computing
Services staff cannot provide troubleshooting for alumni e-mail
or Web accounts or allow them access to subscription databases,
etc.
Send e-mail only to people you already know or have
contact with. Like the telephone, electronic mail supports communication
between individuals who either already know each other or who
have a reason for contacting one another. Just as you would not
call up strangers and talk to them, you should not send random
mail messages to people you do not know.
Keep in mind that computer communication is somewhat
impersonal; many people feel harassed or highly uncomfortable
when they receive messages from people they don't know.
Be aware that electronic mail is not entirely confidential.
Try not to write anything in e-mail that you wouldn't want another
person to see. e-mail may easily be forwarded or misaddressed.
Be aware that system administrators may examine files, mail, and
printer listings for the purpose of diagnosing and correcting
problems with the system.
You should not:
Use another person's computer account, or allow
another person to use your own account.
Knowingly execute a program that may hamper normal
computing activities at Haverford College or elsewhere.
Send mass electronic mailings or forward computer
chain letters.
Use computing resources for personal or private
financial gain. This includes posting of commercial and for-sale
notices except in such spaces explicitly designated for posting
of such material. Users with legitimate access to such data, such
as e-mail or other addresses, or personal or identifying information
(e.g., through college or alumni directories, class websites,
etc.,) shall not use their access privileges to harvest such information
for private or commercial use (e.g., assembling e-mail databases).
Represent content created by others as your own.
Other people's files are their own personal property. Do not copy
other people's files and present them as your own. Do not post
or forward e-mail, data, images, etc., unless you hold copyright
or permission from the copyright holder to do so. Material posted
on College computing resources in violation of copyright exposes
the College as well as the individual to a variety of penalties.
Access information resources, data, equipment, or
facilities in violation of any restriction on use. Users must
respect all pertinent licenses, copyrights, contracts, and other
restricted, private or proprietary arrangements governing access
to or use of certain information or data. As they become available,
the College intends to implement security provisions to improve
safeguards against improper access to such data. While the College
considers that the name and year of graduation from Haverford
College are public information, all other information about individual
alumni should be regarded as private and proprietary. The College
shall strive to allow individuals to control (decide to either
disclose or retain as private) what personal information is made
available about them in such directories or compilations.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF POLICY
By activating an alumni e-mail forwarding
address, a user implicitly agrees to abide by the above policy
in its entirety.
