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Members of the Dartmouth community have reasonable expectations of privacy
in their use of information resources, in accordance with this policy. State
and federal law, and Dartmouth policy, prohibits unauthorized access to
computer and telephone systems. No one should use aliases, nicknames, pointers,
or other electronic means to capture information intended for others without
permission of the intended recipient. Attempts to gain unauthorized access to
machines or computer records, to decrypt encrypted materials, to monitor other
individuals' computer or network use, to attempt to obtain their passwords, or
to obtain privileges or information to which the user is not entitled, are
prohibited.
Information stored on an individual's account is presumed to be private
unless the account holder has made the information available to others. If, for
example, the account holder allows public access to files via file sharing, it
is presumed that the account holder has waived his or her privacy rights to
those files.
Systems operators, supervisors, and other College officials may access
information resources to locate business information, maintain the system and
network, comply with legal requirements, or administer this or other Dartmouth
policies.
Local area networks and local resources, including personal computers,
workstations, file servers, printers, and similar devices, shall be subject to
the same rights to privacy and confidentiality afforded centralized computer
systems, regardless of whether those local resources are connected to any of
Dartmouth's central information technology networks.
Some programs and networked services gather information about the people who
use them. If such information could directly or indirectly identify a person
using the program, then each user should be warned and given a chance to leave
the program or service before data collection begins, a procedure referred to
as a "privacy warning." To avoid issuing excessive numbers of warning messages,
an exception is made for host operating systems and some networked utilities
used by Computing Services that collect identifying information as part of
their normal operation. A list of these exempted programs and services and the
data that they collect is available from Computing Services and is provided in
the
Appendix. The provider of any program or service that gathers information
about those who use it must either install a privacy warning or request
Computing Services to place the program or service on the list of exempted
programs.
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