TBSHS MOODLE

Terms of Service

As a member of TBSHS, you are solely responsible for the contents of your transmissions through the TBSHS service, and are subject to all applicable local, national and international laws and regulations.

You Agree:

1. To comply with all UK laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the UK through the Service;
2. Not to use the Service for illegal purposes;
3. Not to interfere or disrupt networks connected to the Service;
4. To comply with all regulations, policies, and procedures of networks connected to the Service.

The Service makes use of the Internet to receive certain messages, the Service makes use of telephone lines to deliver certain messages; therefore, your conduct is subject to Internet and Telephony regulation, policies and procedures.

You also agree not to use the Service for:

1. Subscription to any kind of mailing list
2. Chain letters
3. Junk mail/Junk fax
4. Spamming or any use of distribution lists to any person who has not given specific permission to be included in such a process.
5. Libelling/slandering/bullying of any person and/or organisation.

You agree not to transmit through the Service any unlawful, harassing, libellous, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene or otherwise objectionable material of any kind or nature. You also agree not transmit any material that encourages conduct that could constitute a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any and all applicable local, national or international law or regulation. Attempts to gain unauthorised access to other computer systems are prohibited. You agree not to interfere with another member's use and enjoyment of the Service or another entity's use and enjoyment of similar services. TBSHS may, at its sole discretion, immediately terminate Service should a member's conduct fail to conform with the terms and conditions of TBSHS.

You agree to not use false 'e-mail' addresses.

If you receive any junk messages (fax/e-mail), please forward the information via email to: administrator@tbshs.herts.sch.uk . The rules about transmission also apply to reception of information; and inappropriate messages should be deleted immediately.

Users wanting their school mail forwarded need to ask for this service well in advance.

Additional Notes

The information provided here is for educational and academic use. Any person that attempts to use this information for MAIL-SHOTS and/or selling of products will be breaking the trust that we have placed in people by setting up our electronic mail system.

The fact that staff and students are listed as e-mail users, does not necessarily mean that they read their mail or even use a computer.

All users in the school are only to use their own username for sending as well as receiving mail and no-one else's. This is a simple rule, which if not followed will mean that all Mail and News facilities will be withdrawn from school use, until such matters have been resolved. If you wish this service to continue and know of people misusing the mail and news system, please let us know so that they can be stopped from damaging the service for others.

Staff and students should also realise that there is a lot of potential for anyone in the world to mail them, with this in mind all replies to mail received and new mail sent should be in the appropriate 'clean' language. Everyone has their own view point and are entitled to air it, but blatant rudeness to others and the such will not be tolerated.

Please note that students MUST not send or receive large postings from any source. External users must realise that this is a school and the posting of material that may be deemed suitable in a university or workplace is not always deemed so in a school. Mailing a pupil with jokes or other such RUBBISH does not normally stop at the first recipient, but tends to get forwarded to at least 20 others despite whatever anyone says about trust. [Even sixth form can be childish].

The school administrators do not want to read staff or student mail, as confidentiality is an important thing for all concerned, but please note that logs are kept of e-mail activity. These logs are checked for messages of an excessive size as well as clear indications of time wasting and/or where students are e-mailing each other an excessive number of times.

Content  -  E-Mail is for ACADEMIC use only.  Sending and receiving of 'Snow-ball' messages, huge lists of jokes, programs, pictures, viruses, compressed files and any kind of offensive material is definitely not allowed.

Membership Lists  -  Use and membership of mailing lists is not allowed.

External E-Mail From Current Students and other users  -  Please note that sending/receiving mail from e-mail accounts which are external, to other staff and/or students e-mail accounts held internally or externally to the school may be classified as a school issue, if these messages affect the school in any way. In such cases the school discipline code will be implemented, where this is not suitable then external bodies (i.e.) Police may be involved.

These notes are not totally exhaustive.

TBSHS Disclaimer

This is an important legal message "TBSHS Disclaimer" - please read it before entering "The Bishop’s Stortford High School’s" Web Site and/or Computer Systems.  If you access The Bishop’s Stortford High School’s Web Site and/or Computer Systems, you agree to be bound by the conditions contained in the legal message.

The following pages are not legally binding documents relating to the school and its operations, but instead contain basic information to inform the casual reader of the most common aspects of the school. For definite and up to date information relating to any matter that is deemed as a reasonable request, you should telephone the school directly. (+44 1279 868686).

The information made available by The Bishop's Stortford High School over the World Wide Web does not form part of any contract. Changing circumstances may cause the school to have to change its provisions at any time. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information presented, the school cannot accept responsibility for errors.

This web site may have extracted some ideas and concepts from other sites. If we have done this, it was not with the intention of copying "out-right" any particular designs, pages or clip-art (unless we thought that the clip-art was public domain). If we have duplicated work that is not public domain or shareware, we are truly sorry and will remove it from these page(s) upon reasonable request

We also acknowledge all the hard work of the many people on the Internet as well as in the school. If we have offended anyone with the material in these documents, it has not been intentional and will be rectified upon reasonable request.

Continuing to read past this page, is acceptance on behalf of the reader that any material that may cause offence, distress or any other issues, is read at their own discretion and risk.  It is also acknowledged that there is a possibility of large amounts of data having to be transferred to view some pages, though where possible this will be indicated as the case.