This document, associated to the "Règlement intérieur du LOA", is first of all a good behavior code. The aim is to make clear the responsibilities of the users, according to the law, in order to settle proper use of the computer resources and of the Internet, with a few rules granting consideration and respect of the other users.

The head of Service Informatique at the laboratory will provide users with any additional information they might need.

In the following:

Using computer resources, Internet services and the network to access to them is allowed exclusively for the users' professional activity, according to the law.

Only public or personally granted use of resources is allowed. Each user is responsible for the use of the computer resources and of the network to which he may have access. To his level, he must contribute to the general security.
Users must act reasonably and faithfully in order to avoid saturation or deviation for personal purposes of the resources.
In particular :

• He must apply the security prescription of the Laboratory
• He must ensure the security of his information. He is responsible for the rights he may grant to other users on this information. He is responsible for protecting his proprietary data by the various individual recording devices at his disposal.
• He must report every attempt of invasion of his account, and, in general, every anomaly he might encounter.
• He must follow the rules of the Laboratory with respect to software installation.
• He must select safe passwords, keep them secret, and never pass them to any third party.
• He must never provide access to the equipments at his disposal to a non authorized party.
• He must never use, or attempt to use accounts other than his own one, and never try to hide his identity.
• He must never attempt to read, modify, copy or destroy data which are not his own property, directly or indirectly. He must never change any file containing account or identification data.
• He must never leave his own machine, or a free access machine, in a state providing access to computer resources or Internet services.

Users are granted access only to those data which are public, shared or their own property. Access to other users' data is prohibited, even if those have not been explicitly protected. This rule also applies to every electronic mail product which was not sent directly, or copied to the user. If, for professional use, a user has to build a file to which the law "informatique et liberté" applies, he must first, in agreement with the Director of the Laboratory, request and obtain due authorization for it from "CNIL". This authorization is only valid for the processing of the file data presented in the request, not for the file itself.

Except for a safety copy, as defined in the intellectual property code, copying any commercial software, whatever its use, is strictly prohibited.
Installing computer games is prohibited.
Changing restriction of use of software is prohibited.

The user commits himself not to purposely perturb the operation of the computer system, whether by non standard use of equipments or by introducing parasitic software like viruses, worm… . Every kind of work which might violate the rules defined in the preceding paragraph requires authorization from the Director of the Laboratory, and strict compliance with the rules he might then dictate.

The user can access Internet services exclusively in the framework of professional activities. He must abide the general principles and rules particular to the sites he visits. He must abide the law.
In particular :

• He must not connect, or attempt to connect, to a server by any means other than those normally edited by this server, or without having been granted authorization by an authoritative person.
• He must not deliberately do action endangering the proper operation of a site he is visiting.
• He must not use third party identity, or intercept communications of a third party.
• He must not use these services for proposing or providing access to a third party to data which might be confidential, or against the law.
• He must not upload documents on a server, except if it is the normal destination of this server or if he had been granted authorization by an authoritative person.
• He must use particular politeness in using electronic mail and forum.
• He will not express personal opinions not related to his professional activity which might be prejudicial to the Laboratory or to its administration.
• He must abide laws applying to publications of injurious, racist, pornographic or defamatory character.
• The Laboratory will never be taken for responsible for deterioration of information or violations of the laws done by a user who has not followed these rules.

For maintenance and technical management purpose, the use of hardware, software and network may be monitored and controlled, according to the law.

Every person on the French territory must abide the French law, particularly in the field of computer security.

• the law of "6 janvier 1978" « informatique et libertés », ( cf. http://www.cnil.fr/)
• the legislation relating to the computer fraud (articles 323-1 à 323-7 du code pénal), ( cf. http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/citoyen/code.cgi)
• the legislation relating to the intellectual property ( cf. http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/citoyen/code.cgi)
• the legislation relating to the cryptology ( cf. http://www.telecom.gouv.fr/francais/activ/techno/crypto0698_1.htm)

The content of the present document applies to every agent working in the Laboratory, whatever his status, and to every person, whether on a temporary or permanent status, using the computer system of the Laboratory, whether directly, remotely or indirectly through the network managed by the Laboratory.
This document will be annexed for information to the contract agreed with agents hired on a temporary basis, who will have access to the computer system of the Laboratory.
Every person received by the Laboratory and accessing its computer system will sign this document. A copy of it will be kept by the administration of the Laboratory.