Conditions and Guidelines for Use of Personal WWW Pages
The use of College computing resources for the publication of personal
World Wide Web pages is governed by the same conditions and rules that govern the use of
all other computing resources.
These conditions are described more fully in other documents, but some are especially relevant
to providing public information over the internet. The rules of use described below are
needed in order to safeguard the security, reliability, and effectiveness of the College's
computing resources.
- Your account is for you only.
- Your computing accounts, including your personal web pages, are for your use
only. Just as it is prohibited to let anyone else use your account, it is prohibited
for you to use your personal home pages to publish information for other individuals. Knowingly
doing so is grounds for suspension of your personal WWW page privileges.
- You must act within the law.
- Violation of copyright and intellectual property laws of the United States and the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts is expressly forbidden and is grounds for suspending your
WWW privileges. The copyright law is most likely to give you trouble if you are putting
images into your web pages. You should assume that you do not have the rights to publish
an image unless:
- You created the image from scratch; and
- No other identifiable human beings, living or dead, appear in the image.
Posting digitized images of copyrighted works without prior written permission of the
copyright holder is a clear violation of the United States Copyright Act.
- Commercial use is prohibited.
- Use of College computer and network systems for personal gain not directly related to
the performance of one's duties within the College is forbidden. This prohibition does
not include occasional postings of items for sale in the appropriate newsgroups, nor does
it extend to the posting of resumes or other personal information used to obtain employment.
- Impersonation of others is wrong.
- All attempts to misrepresent yourself as another person or as a member of an organization
to which you do not belong are violations of the Honor Code and grounds for suspension of
your WWW privileges. A special case of this rule is that you may not create pages, whether
intentionally or unintentionally, that cause reasonable readers to conclude that the page
is an official document of Mount Holyoke College. The Seal of Mount Holyoke College
and any reasonable facsimiles thereof are reserved for use by the College alone. You may not
use the College Seal in your own pages.
- Respect the privacy of others.
- Do not provide information about another person on your Web pages without that person's
prior consent.
- Avoid hogging resources.
- You should avoid the excessive use, and causing the excessive use, of the College's
computing resources. The Office of Computing and Information Systems reserves the right to suspend
any person's personal Web page access at any time if needed to preserve the integrity and reliability
of the underlying computing and network resources.
- Be on good behavior generally.
- Behavior on the Web is governed by the same set of principles that govern behavior
of members of the Mount Holyoke Community in general. Students are bound by the Mount
Holyoke College Academic and Social Honor Codes. Faculty, staff, and others with guest accounts
are also expected to abide by the Honor Code when using the computer systems on campus.
Go to "Using Your Personal WWW Pages"
