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PrivacyEffective Date, Updates and Acceptance
The privacy policy set out above is effective as of October 4, 1992.
Your use of the Site is subject to this Privacy Policy and the Terms of
Use Agreement. By using this Site, you are accepting the practices set
out in this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use. We reserve the right
to modify this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the changes on
this page. Your continued use of any portion of the Site following
posting of the updated Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance
of the changes.
A Final Note to Parents
The Internet offers a world of opportunity for children. Your guidance
and involvement are essential to help ensure that children have a safe
and rewarding online experience. We encourage you to visit The Direct
Marketing Association's Web site (http://www.the-dma.org) and explore the Get CyberSavvy! program at http://www.cybersavvy.org/cybersavvy/index.html.
Get CyberSavvy! helps families learn how information flows online so
they can use the Internet in ways that protect their privacy and
well-being. It also contains a number of valuable resources to help
parents and children be aware of and express their preferences about
information that is collected online and how it is used. Your efforts
to instill responsible information practices will help steer your
children to age-appropriate sites and will go a long way toward
ensuring that your children have enriching experiences onli
ne.
Security
We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial
procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain
data security, and correctly use the information we collect online.
BEWARE: If you do any of the above we may suspend you from using your account for up to 168 hours or freeze your account permanently.
Please note that depending on your account history and the type of
infraction, you may be frozen or suspended for breaking the rules and
that you WILL be frozen for multiple infractions. Also, you will not
necessarily be warned prior to being frozen. This is your warning, if you are a student you will get up to 20 day suspension and resiution, the regional police may be involved this activity. Students and staff must respect our site
Respect The Community.
Remember, people who use on ISOC are of all ages and backgrounds. Therefore, all user content
and communications on the ISOC site is filtered and monitored. So
that everyone has a good time, you understand and agree that you will
not post or send through the site any words, images or links containing
or relating to:
- profanity, obscenities ("swear words"), sexual
content (express or implied, including inappropriate acts with or by
your pets for "real" or in role play)
- cybering
- romance role playing
- dating requests or offers for yourself, other people, or ISOC
- attacks, comments, or opinions about other people or things that slander, defame, threaten, insult or harass another person
- gangs, gang-slang, or the promotion of gangs
- chat rooms or links to sites with chat rooms
- promotions offering prizes of any sort (including contests, raffles, lotteries, chain letters or any kind of giveaway)
- materials created by someone else without their express written permission
- information that might identify another user (including posting a link to your personal guest book)
- material regarding political, social, or religious views or opinions
- links to or advertisements for third party commercial Web sites
- bad words, account usernames, store fronts, or any descriptions or names
that would be considered inappropriate under our Terms and Conditions
- "cheats" or "hacks", or information or links to sites claiming to have these
- requests for user passwords
- requests
for money by using your Regerstration or any other school
property on third party sites or your personal websites (including
Ebay)
- scams of any kind (including requests to users to change their email address)
- "spamming" (repeatedly posting the same message) or "party boards"
- anything that suggests it's from a member of the ISOC staff
- trying to test ISOC' message filters (or encouraging others to do so)
- other information that ISOC deems, in its sole discretion, to be inappropriate for this site
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