Handbook Flip Book Update November 2016

Commercial advertising is prohibited on University websites, web pages, and web facilities. This includes ads for businesses or services owned and/or operated by a University employee. Only community advertising may appear on University websites, web pages, and web facilities. A discounted product or service offered to University students or employees through student services or human resources is an example of community advertising. Alumni relations and fundraising activity including gifts, grants, and corporate sponsorships on any Suffolk University websites, web pages, and web facilities must comply with existing University policies. Any such pages must be reviewed and approved by the Office of Advancement.

Suffolk University is committed to providing access to web-based information in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, amended.

Suffolk University’s websites, web pages, and web facilities will not be used for the:

 creation or transmission (other than for research or teaching purposes) of any offensive, obscene, or indecent images or material;

 creation or transmission of any material likely to cause annoyance, inconvenience, or needless anxiety;

 creation or transmission of defamatory material;

 storage or transmission of material that infringes on copyright/intellectual property rights, laws, and policies; and

 purposes unrelated to the staff member’s employment or to the research, educational, community service, or administrative purposes of the University.

All written policies, including the University web policy, must be observed in authoring any University affiliated website, web page or web facility. Please contact Web Services/UMS for the latest copy of the University web policy.

Sanctions for Violations of this Policy

ITS will notify the faculty member, employee, or student, or if deemed necessary, the appropriate Dean or the Director of Human Resources, of any inappropriate activity. It is expected that the inappropriate activity will cease at this warning. If inappropriate use persists, ITS will suspend the user’s computing privileges. Privileges will remain suspended until a thorough review of the incident has been completed and a decision has been made about the imposition of sanctions, if any. Note: If ITS determines that the inappropriate activity is a serious harm to the system, user computing privileges will be suspended immediately without warning.

Depending upon the severity of the incident sanctions might include warning, temporary or permanent suspension of computer privileges, suspension or termination. Persons who engage in

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