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UW Madison, School of Business has the following
Code of Practice and Guidelines with regard to the
setting up and use of Web servers and Webpages,
which should be read in conjunction with the JANET
Acceptable Use Policy and the University's Regulations
on Use of Computer Services [or equivalent]. |
| Staff
and students may only set up a Web server on machinery
owned by, or on the premises of, the UW Madison,
School of Business. They must be registered and
have signed a declaration that they have read and
understood both the Code of Practice and Guidelines
for Users. All pages must include the name of their
author (real name, not just username), and must
be linked (by means of <a href="">)
to the hypertext tree that has the staff member's
or student's home page at its root. |
| There
must be a clear separation between institutional
webpages and personal webpages, to this end, only
official institutional webpages may use University
logos, or other copyrighted or trademarked University
materials, and when users leave the official institutional
pages, they should be informed of this fact by a
notification and disclaimer. Authors of personal
homepages have no authority to designate, represent
or hold out such pages as being official institutional
University webpages, to use such pages for official
University business, or to use such pages to enter
into contracts which purport to bind the University.
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| Institutional
and personal webpages may not: |
| 1. |
Contain, or be used to distribute, or have
direct links to, material which is sexist,
racist, homophobic, xenophobic, pornographic,
or similarly discriminatory and/or offensive. |
| 2. |
Contain,
or be used to distribute, text or images to which
a third party holds a intellectual property right,
without the express written permission of the right
holder. |
| 3. |
Contain, or be used to distribute, or have
direct links to, defamatory material, that
is, they may not contain material which falsely
states or implies something about an identifiable
individual that will result in that individual
being held in lower esteem by others as a result. |
| 4. |
Contain,
or be used to distribute, or have direct links
to,
material that could be used in order to breach
computer security, or to facilitate unauthorized
entry into
computer systems. |
| 5. |
Contain,
or be used to distribute, or have direct links
to,
material which is likely to prejudice or seriously
impede the course of justice in criminal or civil
proceedings. |
| 6. |
Contain personal data (as defined by the
Data Protection Act 1984) about third parties,
unless
their explicit permission has been given, or
the information is properly registered with
the Data Protection Registrar, or the information
is covered by a relevant exemption under the
Data Protection Act 1984. |
| 7. |
CIn
particular, institutional and personal webpages
may not contain, or be used to distribute, or have
direct links to, material which breaches, or is
likely to likely to breach: The Obscene Publications
Act 1959, The Sex Discrimination Act 1975, The
Race
Relations Act 1976, The Protection of Children
Act 1978, The Contempt of Court Act 1981, The Data
Protection
Act 1984, The Telecommunications Act 1984, The
Public Order Act 1986, The Copyright, Designs and
Patents
Act 1988, The Computer Misuse Act 1990, The Trademarks
Act 1994. |
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| Personal
webpages may not be used for placing and distribution
of commercial advertisements. |
| The
University has an internal structure of responsibility
for the administration of institutional, departmental
and personal Webpages. Complaints and comments should
be directed to TSC who will ensure that, they are
promptly dealt with by the relevant responsible
individuals named below, and that any necessary
disciplinary action against members of the University
is taken. The following are responsible for dealing
with queries and complaints about their respective
areas. They have the authority to remove webpages
within their respective areas of responsibility
which infringe, or may infringe, the University
Code of Practice, or University Regulations on use
of Computer Services |
| The
above sections notwithstanding, the University does
not exercise direct editorial control over personal
Webpages, and accepts no liability for material
contained in them, or links which are made from
them to other material either at, or outside, the
University. However, in the event of a complaint,
the University will act to ensure that the material
or link in question is removed, as soon as practically
possible, until the complaint is either substantiated
or dismissed. |
| Failure
to observe this code of practice by either students
or staff will be considered a serious matter by
the University. Where University regulations are
breached the University will invoke the appropriate
disciplinary procedures. For students this could
involve fines, suspension of access to computing
facilities or, in extreme cases, termination of
their studies. Breaches of the criminal or civil
law are beyond the remit of the University, but
where criminal offences have been committed, the
University will report these to the authorities.
If the DPP decides upon a criminal prosecution this
will be a matter for the department or individual
concerned. Similar considerations apply to any civil
law cases. |
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