Terms & Conditions

Scope
By accessing and using the resources provided by us, you are agreeing to abide by the 'Acceptable Use of CC & C Solutions Resources' policy.

Access to CC & C Solution’s resources is made available for teaching and administrative purposes, and other specifically authorised activities.

Use of the resources must be ethical, legal and responsible at all times, including limited incidental personal use.

We reserve the right to limit access to our networks through company owned or other computers and to remove or limit access to material and resources stored on our  computers.

Conditions
As a user of these resources, you are subject to the following conditions:

Respect for Intellectual Property and Copyright: You agree to respect the copyright and intellectual property rights of the material contained herein.

Legal and Ethical Use of  Resources: Use of our resources is subject to the full range of Australian Federal and New South Wales State legislation, as well as current company policies. You must ensure that your use of our resources is legal and ethical at all times.

Security and Privacy: We employ various measures to protect the security and privacy of our resources and user accounts, as described in the Policy document. We  reserve  the right to inspect material on our resources when investigating a breach or when required by formal legal disclosure requests, but does not routinely inspect files.

You agree to protect our systems, information and accounts by: using your access only as authorised; keeping your account details confidential; keeping virus protection and operating system/security patches up to date; using only authorised and licensed software programs and; promptly reporting any breach in system or network security to your system administrator.

Inappropriate Use

• Making/using illegal copies of a licensed computer programme is diallowed.
• Downloading, copying, storing or transmitting copyrighted material such as music, graphic, video or movie files without the express permission of the copyright holder or as permitted by law is prohibited.
• Using another’s login or password, or allowing others to use yours is not permitted.
• Gaining unauthorised access to systems by any means, including port scans, ‘hacking’ and use of ‘password sniffer’ software is prohibited.
• Using our resources to attack or compromise any other system, whether on or off-campus, including circumventing system security or protection measures is prohibited.
• Knowingly propagating or installing computer viruses or malicious code is prohibited.
• Accessing or intercepting others’ electronic communications without permission is disallowed.
  Creating/sending email under another’s name (forgery); creating/sending/forwarding electronic chain letters, unsolicited broadcast emails ('Spam'), obscene, abusive, fraudulent, threatening or repetitive messages is prohibited.
• Using resources to harass, threaten, defame, vilify or discriminate against any group or individual is prohibited.
• Causing intentional or irresponsible damage to ICT resources, or stealing equipment is not permitted.
  Making excessive personal use of ICT resources is not alowed.
• Deliberately or negligently accessing, preparing, storing, displaying or transmitting of material that is obscene, pornographic or paedophilic; is discriminatory or vilificatory; promotes illegal acts, or that advocates violence; is offensive or potentially unlawful; or promotes/allows online gambling  is prohibited.

Penalties for breaching Conditions of Use

Penalties will depend upon the type and severity of breach. Penalties may range from loss or restriction of access, to formal disciplinary action for breach of . Misuse of resources by students may attract financial penalties. Cases of serious, deliberate, and/or criminal breach will be referred to external authorities and may result in civil or criminal proceedings.