TERMS & CONDITIONS

Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School Terms & Conditions

Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School District 307 has ample ability to enhance your child’s education through the use of the Internet.  The Internet offers vast, diverse, and unique resources.  The District’s goal in providing this service is to promote educational excellence by facilitating resource sharing, innovation, and communication.

The Internet electronically connects hundreds of thousands of computers throughout the world and millions of individual subscribers.  Students and teachers may have access to:

• Limited electronic mail (email) communications with people all over the world.
• Information from governmental sources, research institutions, and other sources.
• Discussions groups.
• Many libraries, including the catalog to the Library of Congress, and the Educational Resources Information Clearinghouse (ERIC).

With this educational opportunity also comes responsibility.  Therefore, your authorization is required before your child may use this resource.  You and your child should read the enclosed Authorization for Internet Access letter and discuss it together.  The use of inappropriate material or language, or violation of copyright laws, may result in the loss of the privilege to use this resource.  Remember that you are legally responsible for your child’s actions.

On an unregulated network it is impossible to control all material and a user may discover inappropriate material.  The District provides tools that attempt to prohibit access to vast amounts of this inappropriate material, but ultimately it is the parent(s) / guardian(s) responsibility for setting and conveying the standards that their child should follow.  To that end, the District supports and respects each family’s right to decide whether or not to authorize Internet access.

Please read and discuss the Authorization for Internet Access with your child.  If you agree to allow your child to have access to the Internet from our school, please sign the authorization form located on the last page and return it as soon as possible.

Authorization for Internet Access

Each teacher must sign the Authorization as a condition for using the District’s Internet connection.  Each student and their parent(s)/guardian(s) must sign thie Authorization before the student will be granted access.  School board members and administrators are treated like teachers for the purposes of thie Authorization.  Please read thie document carefully before signing.

All use of the Internet shall be consistent with the District’s goals of promoting educational excellence by facilitating resource sharing, innovation, and communication.  The Authorization does not attempt to state all required or proscribed behavior by users.  However, some specific examples are provided.  The failure of any user to follow the terms in this Authorization for Internet Access will result in the loss of privileges, disciplinary actions, and/or appropriate legal action.  The signature(s) at the end of this document is legally binding and indicated the party who signed has read the terms and conditions carefully and understands their significance.

Terms and Conditions

1. Acceptable Use:  Access to the District’s Internet must be for the purpose of education or research, and be consistent with the educational objectives of the District.
    
2. Privileges:  The use of the District’s Internet is a privilege, not a right.  Inappropriate use will result in a cancellation of those privileges.  The system administrator will make all decisions regarding whether or not a user has violated this Authorization and may deny, revoke, or suspend access at any time.  The system administrator’s decision is final.
    
3. Unacceptable Use:  You are responsible for your actions and activities involving the network.  Some examples of unacceptable uses are:
   
   
   • Using the network for any illegal activity, including violation of copyright or other contracts, or transmitting any material in violation of state or federal regulation.
   • Unauthorized downloading of software, regardless of whether it is copyrighted or not.
   • Downloading copyrighted material for other than personal use.
   • Using the network for private financial or commercial gain.
   • Wastefully using resources that are provided, such as disk space.
   • Gaining unauthorized access to resources or entities.
   • Invading the privacy of other individuals.
   • Utilizing another user’s network account and password.
   • Posting material authored or created by another person without their consent.
   • Posting anonymous messages.
   • Accessing, displaying, posting, publishing, or submitting any abusive, defamatory, harassing, illegal, inaccurate, obscene, profane, racially-offensive, sexually-oriented, or threatening materials.
   • Using the network while access privileges are suspended or revoked.

4. Network Etiquette:  You are expected to abide by the generally accepted rules of network etiquette.  These include, but are not limited to, the following:
   
   
   • Be polite.
   •  Do not become abusive in your messages to others.
   • Use appropriate language.
   • Do not reveal the personal addresses or telephone numbers of students or colleagues.
   • Do not use the network is any way that would disrupt its use by other users.
      
5. No Warranties:  The District makes no warranties of any kind, whether expressed or implied, for the service it is providing.  The District will not be responsible for any damages you suffer.  This includes loss of data resulting from delays, non-deliveries, missed-deliveries, service interruptions caused by the service provider’s negligence, or your errors or omissions.  Use of any information obtained via the Internet is at your own risk.  The District specifically denies any responsibility for the accuracy or quality of information obtained through the services provided.
    
6. Indemnification:  The user agrees to indemnify the District for any losses, costs, or damages, including reasonable attorney fees, incurred by the District relating to, or arising from, any breach of thisAuthorization.
    
7. Security: Network security is a high priority. If you can identify a security problem on the Internet, you must notify the system administrator or Building Principal. Do not demonstrate the problem to other users. Keep your account and password information confidential. Do not use another individual’s account or password. Attempts to connect to the network as the system administrator will result in cancellation of all computer privileges. Any user identified as a security risk may be denied access to the network.
    
8. Vandalism: Vandalism will result in cancellation of privileges and other disciplinary action. Vandalism is defined as any malicious attempt to harm or destroy data of another user, the Internet, or any other network, or the physical equipment used therein. This includes, but is not limited to, the uploading or creation of computer viruses.
    
9. Telephone Charges: The District assumes no responsibility for any unauthorized charges or fees, including telephone charges, long-distance charges, per-minute surcharges, and/or equipment or line costs.