Web Page Disclaimer

The Statistics Department does not regulate material on members' personal web pages and thus is not responsible for their content. All Department members are advised that they must not contravene the University Computing and Communication's Appropriate Use Policy. Any complaints about material in personal web pages should be directed to the individual responsible, who should be clearly identified on all such personal web pages.

Personal Web Page Policy

The Statistics Department does not regulate material on members' personal web pages and thus is not responsible for their content. All Department members are advised that they must not contravene the University Computing and Communication's Appropriate Use Policy. Any complaints about material in personal web pages should be directed to the individual responsible, who should be clearly identified on all such personal web pages.

The Statistics Department recognizes the difficulty in reaching a concensus of what constitutes inappropriate material. The Department also recognizes that the individual is ultimately responsible for his/her decisions. Therefore, personal web pages will not be regulated or monitored by the Department and no sanctions will be taken by the Department against an individual based on web material content, unless content in clear violation of the University Computing and Communication's Appropriate Use Policy is brought to the Department's attention.

A "Department personal web page" is a web page created by a Department member or members, located on a Statistics Department server (on the research network or the undergraduate network) or on research-related equipment associated with the Department (e.g. on a PC purchased on a faculty NSERC grant) with content that is not directly related to the Department's research, teaching, and administrative activities.

Your name must be clearly indicated on all of your personal web pages.

The Department disclaimer should appear on your personal pages - either directly or as a link (www.stat.ubc.ca/Department/policy.php).

If the Department member has an individual professional page at www.stat.ubc.ca and if that page contains the link "personal home page", then the personal home page link will first link to a warning/disclaimer page, above.

You are NOT permitted to use your personal pages for your own profit, such as to advertise your company, unless you have obtained permission. NEW SENTENCE: This is true of all University equipment.

If your personal pages receive an undo amount of traffic which may impede use of the Department web site, you may be asked to modify your pages.

When preparing your personal web pages, you should consider that

- some things are illegal (examples - setting up a hate site, using copyrighted material without permission);

- some things are possibly illegal (e.g. some statements are potentially libelous);

- some things may offend some people (e.g. ethnic or sexual jokes or stereotypes);

- some things may effect the way your students or colleagues respond to your role in the classroom, laboratory, tutorial or Department;

- a 1992 Committee on Appropriate Use of Information Technology made a distinction between voluntary and involuntary exposure to potentially offensive material. Voluntary exposure occurs when an individual accesses material after receiving some warning of the nature of the material. The 1992 Committee felt that involuntary exposure (e.g. when a PC lab has screensavers with a sexual connotation) might constitute sexual harrassment, and therefore was illegal.