Students who use the school's network have responsibilities that allow the school to provide the widest possible variety of technology-based services for community members. Carefully read and then comply with the "Student Responsibilities" list that follows: doing so will ensure that you have met your personal obligations to the school community as they relate to your use of the network and Internet.
- Student users are responsible for adhering to all policies referenced in the Student Handbook. Individual users will not purposely access, possess, or transfer defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, obscene, profane, lewd, vulgar, rude, inflammatory, threatening, terroristic, sexually explicit, threatening, racially offensive or illegal material on the network.
- All users must recognize that the Internet is, to a substantial extent, an unregulated, unsupervised and uncensored source of information and method of communication. A student who inadvertently becomes part of a transfer of inappropriate material to or from the Internet is obligated to report the incident to the Network Administrator. Purposeful transfer of this type of material is forbidden.
- Network users may not allow another person to log onto or otherwise use their account. It is the responsibility of users to protect their personal and shared accounts from unauthorized use by (a) periodically changing passwords, (b) using passwords that are not easily guessed, and (c) logging out of all authorized accounts when leaving a computer unattended. The use of passwords are for security purposes and do not infer a right to privacy on the Network.
- A user's editing, deleting or otherwise altering files within a shared directory or folder is permitted only if the file in question relates directly to the user's responsibilities as an Academy student.
- Users of the network must recognize that hard drive space for storage of personal files is limited, and they are therefore encouraged to delete all inactive files. The Network Administrator, after giving prior notice to all users, will periodically purge inactive files. Documents stored in digital or electronic form, including e-mail, may be regularly destroyed.
- Those who violate the established policies as outlined in this RUP may be denied access to installed workstations and/or the network, and may be subject to legal action and/or other disciplinary measures as described in the appropriate Student Handbook. For students, the school's disciplinary response to an infraction can range from a simple (reported) conversation with a faculty member up to and including dismissal from the Academy.
- Use of the network and associated servers for the unauthorized transmission or storage of personal information about students that has the potential to be injurious is prohibited.
- The network user who willfully damages systems through acts prohibited by the School’s User Policy is responsible for all repair costs incurred by the Academy.
- Network users are prohibited from revealing any and all contact information regarding other network users, and any personal contact information beyond a school-assigned email address and a school telephone number. Further, users are prohibited from assuming another's identity and using spyware, cookies or any electronic information to invade another individual's privacy.
- In addition, users may not disseminate personal information regarding students or employees, examples of which include, but are not limited to, grades, social security numbers, credit card numbers, telephone numbers, home addresses, parents' names, mother's maiden name, health and financial information, evaluations, psychological reports and educational records.
- Access by an authorized user to the Academy's network and associated systems from an off-campus location subjects the user to all rights and responsibilities listed in this Technology User Policy.
- Additional rules and restrictions may be added and publicized at any time. Users are responsible for knowing and following these rules.