Use of ENC computers or networks for any illegal purpose, including, but not limited to the use of computers or the network in violation of federal, state or local laws regarding such subjects as trademark and copyrighted material, obscenity, pornography, child pornography, hate communications, discriminatory harassment, or criminal activity. Some examples of illegal use include:
- Unauthorized reproduction of copyrighted material.
- Activities that result in the loss of another person’s work or unauthorized access to another person’s work.
- Racial, sexual or any other kind of harassment of an individual or a group through the computing resources of ENC. There is additional material on harassment issues in the student handbook and the employee handbooks.
- Altering, destroying data or utilizing services that do not belong to you.
- Involvement in on-line gambling.
- Accessing or downloading obscenity or child pornography images.
Consent
Authorized use of ENC’s computing and telecommunication resources and associated infrastructure implies full agreement with this policy. As circumstances warrant, this policy may be reviewed and modified by the Information Security Team and College administration, which upon official adoption and publication, will supplant the current policy. Such supplanted policy will automatically be in effect for all current authorized users of College computing, telecommunications, and associated infrastructure. The intent of this statement is to give an overview of acceptable and unacceptable uses of ENC’s computing resources without exhaustively enumerating all such uses and misuses. This statement is intended as an addition to existing College policies concerning academic honesty, harassment, and usage of facilities.
The predominant goal of this policy is to promote honesty, respect for individuals and respect for both physical and intellectual property in the use of computing resources. All expectations regarding academic honesty and professional ethics extend to electronic media.
Online Communities
Students should not assume any website or social media site is confidential. The term social media refers to forms of electronic communication that enables individuals to express ideas, information, and other content within an online community. Online threats to others or to oneself will be taken seriously if brought to the attention of the college. Eastern Nazarene College reserves the right, when appropriate and subject to law and regulations, to seek disciplinary measures, up to and including dismissal from the College or termination of employment for use of private social media sites in ways that are in violation of the Community Standards. Students are also advised not to post specific address, residence hall, room or phone number due to the potential for harassment, stalking or identity theft.
Security
While the college makes every effort to maintain the security of its systems, it should be noted that no guarantee of privacy of electronically stored information or electronic mail can be supplied. Users of college-operated computing resources should also be aware that the college reserves the right to inspect information stored on or passing through its systems and monitor files accessed when there is reasonable cause to suggest a violation of the policies of the college or when the college needs to access information that is pertinent to its operations.
- No person shall gain or attempt to gain access to any computer or computer network without the consent of the owner of the computer or the operators of the network system.
- No person shall knowingly alter, destroy, delete or introduce programmatic instructions that will cause the computer to do anything unwanted by the owner.
- No person will attempt to circumvent ENC’s computer security system, or use ENC’s computer systems or computer networks to attempt to circumvent security systems elsewhere.
- Users are responsible for the security of their own network services accounts. Users should follow the password guidelines distributed when the account is created
- Users are responsible to abide by all data security policies established by the college in response to local, state and federal laws.
