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ELECTRONIC<br />

COMMUNICATION<br />

AND SOCIAL MEDIA<br />

POSTMAN PAT<br />

IN CYBERSPACE!<br />

The Electronic Communications and Social<br />

Media Policy aims to govern the use of the<br />

ADvTECH (and, by inference, The IIE’s<br />

Varsity College) ICT infrastructure in order<br />

to ensure effective use of our computers,<br />

data lines, and communication platforms<br />

which, in turn, improves our ability to<br />

provide a predictable and stable<br />

operating environment.<br />

The highlights of the policy are:<br />

• No sending of spam or unsolicited<br />

emails or misuse of the distribution lists<br />

will be allowed. Any spam should be<br />

reported to themarshal@advtech.co.za<br />

immediately.<br />

• The maximum email size is set to 15<br />

megabytes (MB); however, any<br />

attachments larger than 5MB should be<br />

shared through OneDrive instead.<br />

• Ensure that you maintain your mailbox<br />

size below 20GB by adopting proactive<br />

filing habits. Speak to your ICT<br />

department for assistance.<br />

• Consider compressing large documents<br />

before emailing them.<br />

• Do not share your login details<br />

with anyone!<br />

• Lock your laptop/computer when you<br />

are away from your desk.<br />

• You will be held responsible for any<br />

activity on your username.<br />

• Do not fabricate a message and/or<br />

sender of a message.<br />

• Do not post or transmit, by any means,<br />

any content, which is, unlawful,<br />

harmful, threatening, abusive,<br />

harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene,<br />

sexually explicit, profane, hateful,<br />

racially, ethnically or otherwise<br />

objectionable content of any kind.<br />

• Do not post or transmit, by any means,<br />

any content which brings the company<br />

into disrepute.<br />

• Do not use any communication facilities<br />

to offer or solicit private services for<br />

private selling of goods and/or services.<br />

• If you are out of the office for a full day<br />

or more then you should activate your<br />

“Out of Office” function.<br />

• You are required to follow the Loss<br />

Control Policy in the event that<br />

equipment (i.e. laptop or computer) is<br />

stolen or lost.<br />

• Communications such as emails,<br />

voicemail and items stored on users’<br />

computers are the property of ADvTECH<br />

and should, at all times, be treated as<br />

though others may later view the<br />

m.<br />

• You may not excessively downlo<br />

load,<br />

reproduce, share, retain and<br />

nd/or create<br />

records that contain music, images,<br />

sound or video, if such record is not<br />

reasonably required for the user’s<br />

official business.<br />

• The personal use of Internet and<br />

/or<br />

social media while using company<br />

property, resources and time is<br />

discouraged and, where it affects the<br />

productivity or role of the person<br />

concerned, may be considered as an<br />

abuse of company resources. e Common<br />

sense and good judgement should guide<br />

personal and private usage.<br />

Any breach of this policy will result in:<br />

• A user’s email privileges being revoked<br />

or restricted without warning or<br />

consultation, and/or;<br />

• Disciplinary action will be taken against<br />

the offender. Such disciplinary action<br />

will be taken in accordance with<br />

ADvTECH’s Disciplinary Policy, a copy of<br />

which can be obtained from your<br />

HR Department.

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