the integrity, risk, and compliance         1.	 Accessing, retrieving, viewing      10.	 Connecting unauthorized  aspects of each email system. Because            or disseminating obscene,               devices on the wired or  email accounts are assigned based                indecent, sexually explicit or          wireless network, including but  on student and employee personally               vulgar materials or messages            not limited to, wireless signal  identifiable information, use of                 unrelated to the educational            boosters.  College email systems is the only                mission of the college.  manner in which the College and                                                     11.	 Circumventing or attempt to  others can reasonably assume that it        2.	 Retrieving, viewing or                   circumvent system security  is communicating with the correct                disseminating any material              measures through the use of  individual.                                      in violation of any federal or          software or other measures.                                                   state regulation/law or College  Students and employees who                       policy. This includes, but is      12.	 Gaining access without  communicate via email to conduct                 not limited to, improper use            permission to the files of  College-related business must utilize            of copyrighted material or              others, or vandalize another  their College provided email accounts            intellectual property.                  user’s data or files.  upon enrollment or employment.  Prospective students or employees may       3.	 Intentionally manipulate            13.	 Gaining unauthorized access to  temporarily use personal email accounts          information on any sensitive            College electronic resources or  during the application for enrollment            applications such as                    other entities using a College  or employment process. Personal                  accounting, student, employee,          computer and/or network.  email accounts may also be used on               and business records, or  a limited basis for password resets              tamper and/or attempt to gain      14.	 Improperly forge or alter  when other information is provided to            unwarranted access to student           electronic mail messages,  identify the individual. For their own           or employee personal network            or use an account owned by  personal protection, faculty and staff are       files. Sensitive files should be        another user.  discouraged from using their College             stored in a secure place.  email account for personal use.                                                     15.	 Invading another person’s                                              4.	 Engaging in for-profit                   privacy. This includes, but  Efficient Use of Resources                       commercial activities,                  is not limited to, improperly                                                   including but not limited to,           disclosing personally  Users must accept limitations or                 crypto-mining, advertising or           identifiable information such as  restrictions on computing resources,             sales for personal gain.                name, social security number,  such as storage space, time limits or                                                    address, phone number, or user  amounts of resources consumed. Users        5.	 Sending of SPAM or a chain               name and password.  should not engage in any activity                letter.  detrimentally affecting other users of                                              16.	 Using the System or any  the System.                                 6.	 Soliciting money for religious           system resources to send                                                   or political causes unless it           unsolicited commercial email.  User Identification                              is an approved fundraising                                                   activity for a student             17.	 Violating any software license  Concealing or misrepresenting one’s              organization.                           agreement.  identity is a violation of College  policies, and is subject to disciplinary    7.	 Harassing, threatening,             18.	 Downloading, copying,  action.                                          intimidating, or demeaning any          printing or otherwise storing                                                   person or group of people for           or possessing any data, in  Vandalism                                        any reason, including but not           violation of these rules and/or                                                   limited to race, color, religion,       College policy.  Any type of vandalism or attempted               gender, age, national origin,  vandalism (physical or electronic)               citizenship status, ancestry,      19.	 Any attempt to hide or conceal  to any part of the System, a College             marital status, parental                activity of a prohibited use.  computer, computer peripherals, the              status, pregnancy, family  College network, or files of others is           status, military status, sexual    20.	 Use of tools designed to  prohibited and may result in disciplinary        orientation, disability, source         perform, including but not  action. Vandalism includes, but is               of income, housing status, or           limited to, vulnerability and  not limited to, malicious destruction            any other category protected            port scanning, penetration  or deletion of college information,              by law.                                 testing, packet sniffing,  downloading, uploading, or creation of                                                   password cracking, encryption  computer viruses or malware.                8.	 Disrupting the educational               circumvention and collection                                                   process or interfere with the           of network information of any  Specific Prohibited Uses                         rights of others.                       kind without the expressed                                                                                           written consent of the College  In addition to the other prohibitions       9.	 Disrupting information                   IT Office.  contained in this policy, the following          network traffic or interfere  activities which are unacceptable                with the network or connected      21.	 Engaging in any unlawful use  and may result in disciplinary action,           systems.                                of the system.  include, but are not limited to:    40