Policy Statement/Procedure Description

Students attending Kentucky State University are responsible for the legal consequences (including KRS434.840 through KRS434.860) due to misuse of facilities provided by or through Kentucky State University. Student computer accounts are issued by Computer & Information Services only to meet specifically stated needs and are not to be used otherwise. Students are required to sign an agreement that they understand the use of university computing resources for secret, license, confidentiality, or other proprietary agreements, and the copyrights of data and computer software belonging to others. The Student must agree to the following: (1) to respect the rights of privacy, the property rights (including trade secret, license, confidentiality, or other proprietary agreements), and the copyrights of data and computer software belonging to others; (2) to not pry into privileged system files or programs; (3) to comply with federal and state statutes and university policies regarding access to university data and not to release such data without proper authorization; (4) to take appropriate steps to safeguard access ID's and passwords to protect against unauthorized use by others of this account and to notify Computer & Information Services of suspected unauthorized use; (5) to respect the rights of all others users of the system and not knowingly to use computer services in any way which is disruptive or damaging to the system or any other user; and (6) to not make unauthorized use of this account and not knowingly to grant use of this account for unauthorized purposes.

Entities Affected

Academic Affairs

Registrar

Information Technology

Policy Owner/Interpreting Authority

Information Technology

Related Policies

Statutory or Regulatory References