
Ludington Area School District (LASD) recognizes the importance of making its digital public school services available to the largest possible audience and has attempted to design the Web site to be accessible by everyone. This Web site was coded to comply with both the Americans With Disabilities Act and the Priority 1 Level Checkpoints of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.
LASD will continue to test future releases of this site and remains committed to maintaining its compliance and serving the widest possible audience for LASD's digital public school system.
The Ludington Area School District (LASD) web site is owned and operated by the LASD and provided as a public service to the citizens the Ludington Area School District and their families. The use of the content, images and logos on the LASD.net web site, on any other web site or networked computer environment is prohibited.
Some of the materials on the web portal, for example The Beam or the School Calendar, may be saved on any single personal computer for personal, non-commercial use only. All copyrighted material and other means of proprietary or copyright identification must be kept intact and unmodified. Modification of the materials or use of the materials for purposes not granted by the LASD is a violation of Michigan's copyright and other proprietary rights.
LASD LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Ludington Area School District (LASD) provides links to other organizations throughout this website. These links are provided for additional information as a service to our customers. In providing these links, LASD does not endorse the content, products, services or viewpoints expressed by these external sites. Once you leave LASD's website and link to an external site, the LASD Internet policies no longer apply and you will be subject to the new site's policies.
You may also link to individual agency web sites by creating a text link to a specific school building or business office. You may not use their logo for linking purposes. Once you have created a link LASD or a school site, test the link to confirm it works and then notify LASD Web Master using this e-mail link.
This statement represents a guide to the acceptable use of the Ludington Areal School District (LASD) online services. The following guidelines will be applied to determine whether or not a particular use of the sites services is appropriate:
1.) Users must repect the legal protection provided by the copyright and license to programs and data made available by the web site.
2.) Users must not use the web site in a manner that precludes or significantly hinders use by others.
3.) Users must not use the web site in a way that violate applicable laws or regulations.
4.) Users must respect the privacy of others.
The Ludington Area School District (LASD), as developer and manager of the LASD portal has taken a number of steps to safeguard the integrity of its data and prevent unauthorized access to information that is maintained in agency computer systems. These measures are designed and intended to prevent corruption of data, block unknown or unauthorized access to our systems and information and to provide reasonable protection of private information that is in our possession.
For security purposes and to make sure this service remains available to all users, the LASD uses special software programs for monitoring and auditing network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise to cause damage to this computer system. The LASD also uses industry-standard software tools to control access to specific applications and services. These programs help us identify someone attempting to tamper with this web site.
WARNING -- If security monitoring reveals possible evidence of criminal activity, information pertaining to such activity may be provided to law enforcement officials.
Unauthorized attempts to upload information and/or change information on the LASD web site or its composite web sites are strictly prohibited and are subject to prosecution under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and Title 18 U.S.C. Sec.1001 and 1030.
The information contained in this policy statement should not be construed in any way as giving business, legal, or other advice, or warranting as fail proof, the security of information provided via the LASD web site or the web sites of individual school buildings.
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