Internet use policy

1. Internet using

Use of the internet is permitted and encouraged where such use supports the goals and objectives of the business. However, employees must:

• Use the internet in an acceptable way.

• Comply with current legislation.

• Do not create unnecessary business risk to the company by their misuse of the internet.

2. Employee’s duties

• Users should follow the electronic mail policy.

• The privacy of other users should be respected especially in respect to disclosing passwords to anyone; reading the mail of others; and revealing personal addresses or phone numbers.

• By the same token, users should avoid listing personal information in such an insecure forum as the Internet.

• Users are expected to use the Internet for educational and research purposes. Conventional chat room sessions, game playing, and abuse of e-mail privileges are not considered educational research.

• Users must respect copyright laws pertaining to material obtained.

• Users must properly cite and not plagiarize any sources.

• Users will be held accountable for all activities including the content of materials sent by mail, news, or any other means using the account privileges.

• Users will not masquerade as or misrepresent other users.

3. Unacceptable behavior of using internet

In particular the following is deemed unacceptable use or behavior by employees:

• Publishing defamatory and/or knowingly false material, your colleagues and/or our customers on social networking sites, ‘blogs’ (online journals), ‘wikis’ and any online publishing format.

• Undertaking deliberate activities that waste staff effort or networked resources.

• Introducing any form of malicious software into the corporate network.

• Visiting internet sites that contain obscene, hateful, pornographic or otherwise illegal material.

• Using the computer to perpetrate any form of fraud, or software, film or music piracy.

• Hacking into unauthorized areas.

• Using the internet to send offensive or harassing material to other users.

• Downloading commercial software or any copyrighted materials belonging to third parties, unless this download is covered or permitted under a commercial agreement or other such licence.

4. Monitoring of using internet

• The company maintains the right to monitor the volume of internet and network traffic, together with the internet sites visited.

• The specific content of any transactions will not be monitored unless there is a suspicion of improper use.

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