HR Policies # 13.5 and 13.6

E-mail is provided to assist and facilitate Medical Center communications. It is provided for offical business use in the course of assigned duties. All messages are Medical Center records. The Medical Center reserves the right to access and disclose all messages sent over its electronic mail system. In the course of their duties, systems operators and managers may monitor use of the E-Mail system or review the contents of stored E-Mail records. Inappropriate use may result in loss of access privileges and disciplinary action up to and including dismissal. This includes, but is not limited to:

1. Unauthorized attempts to access another's E-Mail account.
2. Transmission of sensitive or proprietary information to unauthorized persons or organizations.
3. Transmission of obscene or harassing messages to any other individual.
4. Transmission of offensive material, solicitations or proselytization for commercial ventures, religious or political causes or other non-job related solicitations.
5. Any illegal or unethical activity or any activity which could adversely affect the Medical Center.

The Mount Sinai Medical Center reserves the right to disclose any electronic mail messages to law enforcement officials without prior notice to any employees who may have sent or received such messages.

Access to the Internet is provided as a communications tool and information resource to facilitate the performance of job related functions. This policy applies to any Internet service accessed on or from a Medical Center facility, provided by the Medical Center, accessed using Medical Center computer equipment or used in a manner that identifies the individual with the Medical Center.

Inappropriate use of the Internet may result in loss of access privileges and disciplinary action up to and including dismissal. Employees are prohibited from using Medical Center provider Internet services in connection with any of the following activities:

• Engaging in illegal, fraudulent or malicious conduct.
• Working on behalf of organizations without any professional-or business affiliation with the Medical Center.
• Sending, receiving, or storing offensive, obscene, or defamatory materials.
• Obtaining unauthorized access to any computer system.
• Using another individual's account or identity without explicit written authorization.
• Attempting to test circumvent or defeat security or crediting systems of the Medical Center or any other organization without prior authorization from Information Management Systems and Services/Security and Corporate Data Administration (IMSS/SACDA).
• Any use or activity that impedes Medical Center operations.

The Medical Center reserves the right to review any information, files, or communications sent, stored, or received on its computer systems.

The Mount Sinai School of Medicine expects that all persons who make any use of school computing hardware, software, networking services, or any property related or ancillary to the use of these facilities, will abide by the following policy statement:

School information technology resources are provided in the hope that the whole school community will use them in a spirit of mutual cooperation. Resources are limited and must be shared. Everyone will benefit if all computer users avoid any activities which cause problems for others who use the same systems.

All hardware, software, and related services supplied by the school are for the sole purpose of supplementing and reinforcing the school's goals as set forth in the student and faculty handbooks and other mission statements of the school. See the Student Handbook and the Faculty Handbook. It is a specific violation to give account passwords to individuals who are not the owners of such accounts, or to obtain passwords to, or use of accounts other than one's own.

We expect that no one will use hardware, software or services without authorization to do so. Copying software is a violation of federal copyright law. Individuals may not extend their use of the facilities described above for any purpose beyond their intended use, or beyond those activities sanctioned in school policy statements. In particular, no one may use them:

• for personal profit or gain,
• to harass, threaten, or otherwise invade the privacy of others,
• to initiate or forward e-mail chain letters,
• to cause breaches of computer, network or telecommunications security systems,
• to initiate activities which unduly consume computing or network resources.
• to transmit sensitive or proprietary information to unathorized persons or parties.

Individuals who violate the aims of this policy will be subject to disciplinary action or to referral to law enforcement authorities without prior notifcation to those who have sent or recieved such messages. Academic Computing personnel are authorized to monitor suspected violations and to examine items stored on any school storage medium by individuals suspected of violating this policy.

By clicking "Accept" on the registration page you signify that you have read and will abide by the terms of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine Network Usage Policy. You must accept this policy to use the network.