Please review and sign our Gauchomail Acceptable Use Policy and make sure you're storing data in accordance with our policies.
Gauchomail Acceptable Use Policy
Gauchomail Communication & Collaboration Services are offered to you conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein. Your use of Gauchomail constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, and notices.
- This agreement is made between the UC Santa Barbara Alumni Associaition, hereafter referred to as "UCSB AA," and each alumnus holding an account, hereafter referred to as "USER". The agreement governs the use of the Gauchomail Electronic Communication Service, hereafter known as "THE SERVICE".
- UCSB AA permits USER to log in to THE SERVICE for purposes of communication and collaboration.
- USER shall not violate any governmental law or university rules and regulations in the use of THE SERVICE.
- USER shall not attempt to bypass security or gain unauthorized access to THE SERVICE or any other computer systems on the network connected to THE SERVICE.
- USER shall not use THE SERVICE to commit any nuisance, annoy, molest, defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others.
- USER shall not harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including e-mail addresses.
- USER shall not use THE SERVICE to interfere with any other communications device, data network, software program, or computer system.
- USER agrees to use their account in compliance with any system storage limits, hardware limitations, or restrictions set by UCSB AA and as updated from time to time with or without notice.
- USER agrees to restrict any activity that UCSB AA deems detrimental to THE SERVICE, the networks it adjoins, and/or other systems of this system and networks.
- Use of THE SERVICE shall not be shared with another person nor shall this agreement be assigned. USER's account shall be for the personal use of USER only; it is not to be used in the operation of business. Any attempt by USER to share the use of this account, or to use it for business purposes, or to assign this agreement shall, at the election of UCSB AA, be an irremediable breach of this agreement.
- USER agrees not to access a file or form of communication owned by or directed to another customer unless direct permission is granted by the other customer.
- USER shall not allow any files containing software or other material protected by intellectual property laws (or by rights of privacy of publicity) to reside in USER's account unless USER owns or controls the rights thereto or have received all necessary consents to do the same.
- USER agrees to promptly inform UCSB AA of any form of security breach found by USER on the THE SERVICE or on any network connected to THE SERVICE.
- USER holds UCSB AA free and harmless in the event of any data loss or breach of security.
- USER acknowledges that any messages or files stored within the Gauchomail system may be archived to long-term storage media. Such archives are created to assure integrity and reliability of THE SERVICE -- not to provide for future retrieval in case of USER error.
- USER acknowledges that THE SERVICE will be used in a manner consistent with the University of California Electronic Communications Policy published at https://www.ucop.edu/information-technology-services/policies/electronic-communications.html (link is external) and that usage which does not comply within these documents may result in suspension or termination of the SERVICE.
- USER acknowledges that violating any of the above policies may result in the immediate suspension or termination of THE SERVICE.
- UCSB AA may modify, suspend or terminate the SERVICE with or without cause upon notice to USER. USER may terminate the use of the SERVICES at any time.
- UCSB AA may modify, suspend or terminate this policy upon notice to USER.
- The above policy supersedes any policy that may have been applicable to the SERVICE.