INTERNET AND POLICY

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1 INTERNET AND POLICY 1. Internet and General Policy 1.1. The school has software and systems in place, which can monitor and record all Internet and all activities. You should be aware that the security systems are capable of recording each web site visit and message sent and received. No one should have an expectation of privacy related to his/her Internet and usage. Our ICT Team review Internet activity and usage patterns on a regular basis. Internet and s are filtered and monitored by Lightspeed Total Traffic Control Server We reserve the right to inspect /delete, bring to the attention of Senior Staff any files stored in user areas on the school network, s and internet usage deemed unacceptable. This will be the responsibility of the ICT Technical Support Team, under direction of the Technical Manager to randomly conduct regular searches of the network files and histories of sites visited for inappropriate use This will be reported back to the Senior Managers, via the Technical Manager / Principal Officer The system is provided for communication to staff, students, customers and suppliers for school/business related matters. system abuse is not acceptable and failing to comply with this policy will be subject to disciplinary procedures The wilful or deliberate display and any s of any kind of : Obscene Offensive Illegal Inaccurate Racial Prejudicial Sexually explicit Or any other kind deemed unacceptable Images or documents on the system are in contravention of the (LEA policy) and School policy on harassment, these files are classed as unacceptable. These types of files / materials may not be archived, stored, distributed, edited or recorded using the school network of computing resources. Disciplinary action will be taken against anyone failing to comply. When unacceptable files are found, ICT Support Team have a responsibility, Duty of Care and a jurisdiction to store these files as evidence in required investigations and passed to the SMT The school's Internet facilities and computing resources must not be used knowingly to break the law. Use of any school resources for illegal activity is grounds for dismissal and the school will co-operate with any legitimate law enforcement activity. These facilities must also be used in conjunction with Birmingham Education Acceptable use of ICT. : Abortion Adult Material Advocacy Bandwidth PG Business and Economy Drugs Miscellaneous News and Media Producting PG Racism Religion Shopping Page 1

2 Education Entertainment Gambling Games Government Health Illegal or Questionable Information Technology Intent Communication Military and Extremist Pornography tasteless/gross/hate/discriminative Social Organisation Society and Lifestyles Special Events Sports Tasteless Travel User defined Vehicles Violence Weapons 1.6. Employees/students with Internet access may not download any software even if it has direct educational use. This can only be done if an arrangement with the Technical Manager is made, who then will arrange for the software to be correctly downloaded, licensed, archived and registered if required. Downloaded software must be used only under the terms of its licence and must be added to the appropriate inventory. Any software downloaded via the Internet onto the Arthur Terry network becomes the property of the school. All users of the school network will respect copyright of material. This must be tested in a safe trusted environment Employees may not upload/copy any software licenced to Arthur Terry School or data owned or licensed by the school unless explicitly authorised to do so by the Technical Manager The Internet at the school is accessed by the use of a LEA proxy server and a router. The computers do not allow access via the telephone system with modems and other service providers, thus being unable to bypass the School / BGFL filtering system. The school now has a voice over IP System, so no normal telephone lines are in school (except for the school fax line) All access from the Grid to the Internet has to be made through the LEA filtering server, which runs software called N2H2 and the school s internal internet filtering systems called Lightspeed Total Traffic Control. In order to deliver Internet access at the fastest possible speed to schools, the LEA filtering service now offers a standard level of filtering across all schools. The following categories of site are blocked Pornography Strong and offensive language Violence Chat rooms Adults only Drugs (sites that promote or advocate recreational drug use) Personal (dating) Gambling Hate/discrimination Tasteless/Gross Weapons In addition, some sites not in these categories are also blocked, for example the World Wide Wrestling federation site, following many requests from schools, within the LEA. Note, many of the Social Networking sites, eg Facebook, Myspace and bebo are blocked at the LEA level requests to.. can be made if required. Our school also has its own local filtering system, which will give additional control over access to the Internet. This will include being able to set access levels by person, computer and time of day,

3 giving more control over what can and cannot be accessed and ban individual users on the Grid or Internet. This list of categories are used on our internal filtering categories are as follows:- Costume Categories Allowed Category Allowed Staff Sites Igoogle Normally Blocked Categories Local Category Local Block Adult Access-denied Adult-art Adult-bodyart Adult-games Adult-language Adult-lifestyle Alcohol Drugs Offensive Porn Porn-child Porn-de Porn-es Porn-fr Porn-it Porn-jp Porn-nl Porn-pl Porn-pt Porn-ru Suspicious Suspicious-script Violence Violence-hate Adult Gambling Local override of allowed domain Access denied Adult Art Body art, tattoos, body piercing Adult games Strong language Adult lifestyles Production, promotion and sales of alcoholic beverages Site promoting illicit and illegal drug use Websites considered to be offensive to adults and children Pornography related sites Pornsites involving children German pornography sites Spanish pornography sites French pornography sites Italian pornography sites Japanese pornography sites Dutch pornography sites Polish pornography sites Portuguese pornography sites Russian pornography sites Recently discovered sites with suspicious words or phrases Websites whose only content is javascript frequently used to hide pornsites Sites promoting violence and anarchy Sites promoting hate against different groups Adult products, services, situations and humour Gambling, casinos, betting, lottery and play to Forums, Chart, Forums Unmoderated personal expression Forums-blog Weblogs Forums-dating Dating websites like friendfinder, eharmony and match.com Forums-mail sites Forums-newsgroups Newsgroups usenet and subscription newsletters Forums-personals Personals web pages and personal ads Forums-social-networking Social networking and websites such as myspace, facebook and Orkut Forums-Im Instant messaging Forums-P2P Peer to peer sites Page 3

4 Security Parted Security-proxy Security-warez Security Security-hacking Security-nettads Security-phishing Security-potentially- Unwanted-applications Security-spyware Security-test Security-virus Security-virus-ignore Pay per click websites Web proxy servers and open smtp relays Sites promoting illegal access and sharing of software and other copyrighted material Security risks Computer hacking Nettads, remote action tasks, internet server and client Applications Websites of internet scams that try to get personal information Potentially unwanted applications Spyware advertising supported software Used for testing virus signatures and registry controls Virus, malware, Trojans, backdowns, hacker tools Virus signatures that should be ignored. Normally Allowed Categories Local Category Local-allow Local override of blocked domains Advertising Ads Ads-banner-ads Ads-html-ads Ads-popup-ads Shopping-spam Spam Ad servers and advertising companies Banner ads HTML ads Popup ads Shopping websites that use spam for marketing Sources of spam mail that does not involve porn, gambling or drugs Business and Work Ads-javascript-ads Automobile Business Business-construction Business-finance Business-jobs Business-manufacturing Business-real-estate Computers Computers-consumer- Electronics Computer-filehosting Ham Law Microsoft Javascript ads Automobile and motorcycles Business Construction, building, plumbing, home improvement Banking, stockmarkets, insurance and financial news Employment search, offerings and support Manufacturing, industrial and shipping companies Real estate, home, offices Computers and internet Consumer electronics TV s, cell phones. MP3 phones Image, file hosting, shareware, freeware websites Legitimate sources of Law firms, courts and legal matters Microsoft and related sites Education Education Education-arts Education-games Education-history Education and reference sites Art, art history, architecture, graphic design and illustration Educational games for kids History

5 Education-lifestyles Education-media Education-music Education-science Education-sex Education-social-science Education about lifestyles gay lesbian, alternate Educational streaming media resources Music education, history, instruments, marching and music Science and Technology High school level sex education websites Social sciences Family Life Family Family-food Family-health Family-religion Family life, cooking, gardening, home improvement Restaurants, grocery stores, recipes Health care Religion and spiritual Kids and Teens Kids-and-teens Kids-and-teens-animals Kids-and-teens-chat Kid safe websites Cats, dogs, horses and other animals Monitored chat websites suitable for kids Miscellaneous Errors Expired General Plagarism Content database errors waiting to be purged Domains whose registration has expired General interest Websites that sell exam pages, research papers and other ways to help students cheat Recreation Hobby Humour Music Shopping Shopping-activity Shopping-office-supplies Sports Sports-fantasy Sports-martial-arts Sports-youth Travel Audio-video Entertainment Games Hobbies, crafts, collecting Humour, puzzles and brain teasers Band and artists, concerts, DJ s, lyrics, songwriting and record Labels Shopping sites Auctions Major office supply websites Sports sites Fantasy football, baseball, soccer, etc Martial arts High schools sports teams and youth sports leagues Hotels, resorts, cruises, transportation and vacation offerings Sources MP3 a, Mpegs and streaming audio/video Movies, TV, radio, celebrities Games, online, cartoons, wallpaper and screen savers Reference Directory News Search Directories and portals abut specialised topics News and magazines Major search engines Society Government Society Society-crime Federal, state, local and international government Culture, issues, ethnicity, people Crime and the justice system Page 5

6 Society-politics World World-cn World-de World-es World-fr World-it World-jp World-kr World-nl World-pl World-pe World-ru Politics, political activism, political issues Sites about regions and languages around the world World websites Chinese World websites German World websites Spanish World websites France World websites Italy World websites Japanese World websites Korean World websites Netherlands World websites Polish World websites Portuguese World websites - Russian The school will never publish photographs of, or name, individual children on their intranet / I internet websites. It will be careful to only publish photographs of individual groups of pupils and only described them as such (e.g. Children investigating a science problem) The school respects the IRP (Intellectual Property Rights) of pupil s work and will gain permission before any is published on the school website Internet rules and codes of conduct are issued to the students and staff prior to their arrival at Arthur Terry. This must be signed and returned to the school, and then it is kept on file. Internet rules and codes of conduct are also displayed clearly in all ICT rooms and other appropriate areas. Employees releasing protected information via a newsgroup, chat or - whether or not the release is inadvertent - will be subject to all penalties under existing data security policies. Updated: 01/12/2009 By: CB Adopted by Curriculum Committee: Review due:

7 SAFE USE OF COMPUTER NETWORKS POLICY STAFF USER CODE OF CONDUCT Please read the following carefully Internet 1. I understand that my use of the Internet will be monitored and a record made of all worldwide web sites visited and that downloaded material/files stored in my work area can be inspected. 2. When I use the Internet I will identify myself honestly, accurately and completely. 3. I will not use the Internet to break the law. 4. I will not download copyright material. 5. I will not access, display, store, edit or distribute any sexually explicit and/or offensive material. 6. I will not access, display, store or distribute any racist materials. 7. I will not use the School's Internet facilities for private business. 8. I will not use the Internet for releasing protected software and/or data about Arthur Terry School to any individual, news group or chat line or for any unauthorised public speaking. 9. I will not use the Arthur Terry Internet to commit any acts of misuse of school assets or resources or misappropriation or theft of intellectual property. 10. I will not download images or videos unless they are explicitly education-related materials and only then by agreement with the Technical Managers. 11. I will not use the School's Internet facilities to propagate any virus, worm, Trojan horse or trap-door program code. This is in accordance with the School's anti-virus policy. 12. I will not use the School's Internet facilities to disable or overload any system or network, or to circumvent and system intended to protect the privacy or security of another user. 13. I will not use for any abusive purposes, sexual or racial harassment. 14. I will not use obscene, abusive or sexually explicit language or images in s I send. 15. I will not send s that could be deemed libellous or defamatory. 16. I will not use to make unauthorised public statements about Arthur Terry School. 17. I will be courteous and use the correct etiquette when sending . General Policy 1. services are provided to support the use of simple messaging and not for the transfer of large documents for which alternative procedures are available. 2. documents are not private property and so form part of the administrative records of the school. 3. Retained documents will be disclosed to individuals and/or outside agencies as required by Data Protection and Freedom of Information Legislation. 4. services are for work related use only, and are strictly monitored. Any employee deemed to be abusing the system for non-work related s will be subject to disciplinary procedures. Page 7