Acceptable Use Internet Policy

Acceptable Internet Use Policy

This Acceptable Use Policy (hereafter “The Policy”) is a guide to the acceptable use of Relay Graduate School of Education’s network facilities and services (“Services”). Any individual connected to the Guest network, in order to use it directly, or to use it to connect to any other network(s), must comply with this Policy.

The following rules of use will be applied to determine whether or not a particular use of the Services is appropriate:

Users must respect the privacy of others. Users shall not intentionally seek information on, or represent themselves as, another user unless explicitly authorized to do so by that user. Nor shall Users obtain copies of, or modify files, other data, or passwords belonging to others.
Users must respect the legal protection applied to programs, data, photographs, music, written documents and other material as provided by copyright, trademark, patent, licensure and other proprietary rights mechanisms.
Users must respect the integrity of other public or private computing and network systems. Users shall not intentionally develop or use programs that harass other users or infiltrate any other computer, computing system, or network, and/or damage or alter the software components or file systems of a computer, computing system, or network.
Use should be consistent with guiding ethical statements and accepted community standards. Use of the Services for malicious, fraudulent, or misrepresentative purposes is not acceptable.
The Services may not be used in ways that violate applicable laws or regulations.
The Services may not be used in a manner that precludes or significantly hampers network access by others. Nor may the Services be used in a manner that significantly impairs access to other networks connected to the RelayGSE Guest network.
Connections which create routing patterns that are inconsistent with the effective and shared use of the Services may not be established.
Unsolicited advertising is not acceptable. Advertising is permitted on some Web pages, mailing lists, newsgroups and similar environments if advertising is explicitly allowed in that environment.
Repeated, unsolicited, and/or unwanted communication of an intrusive nature is strictly prohibited. Continuing to send e-mail messages or other communications to an individual or organization after being asked to stop is not acceptable.
Use of Peer-to-Peer technologies such as BitTorrent is not permitted
Gaming, streaming music, and streaming video (other than that directly related to Relay’s educational program, such as access to the Relay Online Video Library) are generally not permitted uses of the network and may be deprioritized and/or blocked as needed by Relay network administrators in order to preserve the quality of network performance.
Users may not use this network to access “adult content,” including but not limited to porographic material.
Users may not this this network to engage in criminal activity.
By logging on, you agree to hold Relay harmless for any damages that may result from access to the Internet or inappropriate usage.

The intent of this Policy is to identify certain types of uses that are not appropriate, but this Policy does not necessarily enumerate all possible inappropriate uses. Using the guidelines given above, we may at any time make a determination that a particular use is not appropriate.

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By clicking the “Connect to the Internet” button on the splash page, you are agreeing to the terms above.