EMAIL AND INTERNET POLICY

Company-maintained systems:
Computer and electronic mail
(e-mail) systems are maintained by Marin Day Schools (MDS) in order to
facilitate company business.
Therefore, all messages sent, received, composed and/or stored on these
systems are property of MDS. MDS computer systems may, at no time be used by
any employee to access email or instant messages. The MDS computers may only be
used for obtaining curriculum resources or other MDS-related business.

Personal use and privacy extremely limited:  These systems are to be used by employees
in conducting company business and are not for employees’ personal
use.

MDS reserves the right to access all e-mail messages
(incoming and outgoing) at any time.

Erasure not reliable:  Employees
should be aware that even when a message has been erased, it still may be
possible to retrieve it from a backup system.  Therefore, employees should not rely on
the erasure of messages to assume a message has remained private.

Message access:  Messages
on the e-mail systems are to be accessed only by the intended recipient and by
others at the direct request of the intended recipient.  However, MDS reserves the right to
access messages at any time.  Any
attempt by persons other than the above to access messages will constitute a
serious violation of company policy.

Harassment and discrimination:
Messages on MDS’ e-mail systems are subject to the same
policies regarding harassment and discrimination as are any other workplace
communications.  Offensive,
harassing or discriminatory content in such messages will not be
tolerated.