at for times illegal User Actions Unacceptable Unacceptable Acceptable Acceptable Acceptable nominated users certain and Users shall not visit child sexual abuse images  Internet sites, make, promotion or conduct of illegal acts, e.g. the  post, download, child protection, obscenity, computer misuse and upload, data transfer, fraud legislation communicate or pass on, material, remarks, adult material that potentially breaches the Obscene  proposals or Publications Act in the UK comments that contain or relate to: criminally racist material in UK  pornography  promotion of any kind of discrimination  promotion of racial or religious hatred  threatening behaviour, including promotion of  physical violence or mental harm any other information which may be offensive to  colleagues or breaches the integrity of the ethos of the school or brings the school into disrepute Using school systems to run a private business  Use systems, applications, websites or mechanisms that bypass the  filtering or other safeguards employed by the school Uploading, downloading or transmitting commercial software or any  copyrighted materials belonging to third parties, without the necessary licensing permissions Revealing or publicising confidential or proprietary information (e.g.  financial/personal information, databases, computer / network access and passwords) Creating or propagating computer viruses or other harmful files  Carrying out sustained or instantaneous high volume network traffic  (downloading / uploading files) that causes network congestion and hinders others in their use of the internet Online gaming (educational)  Online gaming (non-educational)  Online gambling  Online shopping/commerce  File sharing  Use of social networking sites  Use of video broadcasting e.g. Youtube 
User Actions Acceptable Acceptable at certain times Acceptable for nominated users Unacceptable Unacceptable and illegal Users shall not visit Internet sites, make, post, download, upload, data transfer, communicate or pass on, material, remarks, proposals or comments that contain or relate to: child sexual abuse images  promotion or conduct of illegal acts, e.g. the child protection, obscenity, computer misuse and fraud legislation  adult material that potentially breaches the Obscene Publications Act in the UK  criminally racist material in UK  pornography  promotion of any kind of discrimination  promotion of racial or religious hatred  threatening behaviour, including promotion of physical violence or mental harm  any other information which may be offensive to colleagues or breaches the integrity of the ethos of the school or brings the school into disrepute  Using school systems to run a private business  Use systems, applications, websites or mechanisms that bypass the filtering or other safeguards employed by the school  Uploading, downloading or transmitting commercial software or any copyrighted materials belonging to third parties, without the necessary licensing permissions  Revealing or publicising confidential or proprietary information (e.g. financial/personal information, databases, computer / network access and passwords)  Creating or propagating computer viruses or other harmful files  Carrying out sustained or instantaneous high volume network traffic (downloading / uploading files) that causes network congestion and hinders others in their use of the internet  Online gaming (educational)  Online gaming (non-educational)  Online gambling  Online shopping/commerce  File sharing  Use of social networking sites  Use of video broadcasting e.g. Youtube 