Requirements for all Personal Web pages

Personal pages should be created with the understanding that users should follow similar precautions and procedures as would apply to other formats.

Because personal Web pages contain "noctrl.edu" as part of their URLs, they absolutely reflect the Author's affiliation with North Central College. Therefore, they should not contain material that undermines North Central College's statement of purpose and its character as a church-affiliated institution. This includes material that is highly offensive, profane, vulgar or abusive.

Any page residing on a College server or in the domain of "noctrl.edu" must adhere to the following:

• College servers cannot be used for the publication of materials that are obscene, harassing, threatening or degrading in any way.
• Personal Web pages must not contain illegal material. This includes text, images, music or programs that are copyrighted by other people unless the copyright owner has given written permission for their use on the WWW.
• Pages maintained on a NCC server or in the domain "noctrl.edu" must not contain direct links to sites which contain materials that:
  • Threaten, harass, intimidate or are obscene
  • Violate copyright, patent protections, license agreements and other intellectual property rights
  • Violate existing local, state, national or international laws, the College's code of conduct, or College rules or policies
• Authors of Web documents and those who store resources on NCC servers are solely responsible for their content.
• Any pages on a NCC server or in the domain "noctrl.edu" may not be used for the benefit of third parties or for profit making activities.
• The following disclaimer must be placed on all personal pages: "The content and opinions expressed on this page belong to (your name) and are not endorsed by North Central College. The College accepts no responsibility for the contents of these pages."
• Individuals should not include the College's official logo on a personal web page.

These are policies that govern the use of personal pages, rather than the content of your web pages.

• Use of Personal Web Space

  All Personal Web Space is provided solely for serving up web pages. It is not intended as a platform for any other kind of computing or network access.

• Don't Abuse the Net to Promote Your Personal Web Pages

  You may put any information that does not violate law or College policy on web pages because they are a passive, noninvasive way of publishing information. However, you may not use other forms of Internet communication in ways which are invasive and waste other people's resources. This distinction is fundamental to the ethics of "netiquette."

• If you list your personal web page address in messages associated with some form of net abuse, illegal activity, or violation of College policies, it will be treated as a violation of Personal Web Page Policies.

Message organizing at another Internet Service Provider will be treated with equal severity under this policy as messages originating at North Central College. Thus you may not, for example, spam USENET from your "dot com" account to advertise your home page.

• You Can Be Too Popular

  Personal web pages are a shared resource. Therefore, it is not an appropriate place to offer any services, commercial or not, that is likely to attract a large volume of network traffic from the Internet as a whole. The administrators of the Personal Web Space, may at their discretion, cut off web access to pages generating excessive traffic which impacts system/network performance or service to other users.

• CGI Scripting

  User written CGI programs are not supported. Any kind of server-side scripting language poses security risks, and we do not want to assume the administrative burden of reviewing user scripts.

• Security, Client-Side Scripting, and Mobile Code

  With the increasing sophistication of computer scripting languages, and various Internet media types it is possible that innocent-appearing or innocently intended content may pose risks to the security of networked computers. It may be necessary to restrict some types of files for this reason.

  At this time, we permit publishing Java applets from personal web pages but we do not provide any server-side support for them. This mainly rules out the use of applets that communicate over the network.

• Disk Usage Limit

  The disk usage limit is 10 Megabytes. This is sufficient for the experimentation and personal interest mission of North Central's Personal Web Space. If you need more space than this, you should go to a commercial WWW service provider.

Users should be aware that the Information Technology Services department may review account files if there is reasonable cause to believe that a user has engaged in misuse or violation of this policy. Information Technology Services can suspend, discontinue, or deny Web page service without notice to anyone it determines is abusing the computing system. Infractions shall be reported the the Director of Information Technology Services and to the Vice President of Student Affairs, in case of students; or to the appropriate Cabinet member for all others. In addition, if web pages violate local, state, or national or international law, civil or criminal action may be taken.

If you suspect a violation of these policies, send E-mail to kawilder@noctrl.edu

Please specify who and what you are complaining about. In particular, you should include the user and/or the URL(s) of web pages in question and what applicable laws or policies you believe have been violated.

North Central College reserves the right to modify or alter this policy at any time.