Information for Students on the use of an Externally hosted Web Service Provider

This course provides the opportunity for students to voluntarily sign up for an externally hosted web service (i.e., a service that is not supplied by The Australian National Univeristy) as part of the course website functionality and, if students wish to do so voluntarily, course assessment. There are some things you need to know about this service and how it works so that you can make informed decisions about the type and amount of information that you supply to the service.

If you do not understand anything that comes below, please see Richard, or email Luke.Powter@anu.edu.au before you sign up for the service. Here are some things you need to know and understand:

Signup

1. You will be asked to sign up for an externally hosted web service as part of the assessment requirements for this course. The services that you may use as part of the course are: Delicious, Twitter, and google, which will also be collectively referred to as the ‘service’ or the ‘service provider.’
2. When you sign up for Delicious, Twitter, and Google, you will be entering into an individual agreement with that service provider, and not with The Australian National University. You should read carefully and understand the service provider’s Terms of Service before you sign up. You must decide the extent to which you establish your own relationship with the service provider, and you may choose to either disclose or withold whatever information you wish.

Offensive material

1. Because you are registering directly with the service, you are personally responsible and legally liable for any material you post on the site. Any material that is offensive, defamatory, hateful, breaches copyright, or discloses personal information about others without their permission that is made under your login will be attributed to you.
2. You must not post or upload material that brings either you or the University into disrepute, or that causes offence.

Information you provide to the service provider

1. The Australian National University has no control over the service provider, or how the service provider uses the data it gathers.
2. Information you provide to the service provider may include your name and date of birth.
3. You should be careful about the information you disclose to the service provider. For the purposes of using this service in the course, you should not provide information that reveals personal details about you, such as your address, postcode, telephone numbers, ethnicity, occupation, hobbies, or similar information.
4. Information you provide to the service provider will include any material you generate and upload or post as part of the course requirements.
5. Your information will be viewable to anyone on the internet.
6. Because your work is being publicly displayed, you will be exposing your work to being stolen, plagiarised, or ‘ripped off’ by others. Even though you retain copyright over your material, this does not stop disreputable persons from taking your work and using or displaying it on their own website (or in any other form) unacknowledged.
7. You must never provide information to the service about other people without their express consent.
8. You must never upload database files containing people's names and addresses.
9. If you believe that a classmate has posted something that is offensive, defamatory, hateful, breaches copyright, discloses personal information about you, or is cause for other concern, then you must notify Richard immediately.

Copyright, intellectual property and privacy (Twitter)

1. Under the Terms of Service with Twitter, you retain the copyright to any material that you create. However, because the service is hosting what you create, the service has a licence to publicly display your work. This means that you cannot sue the service for displaying etc. material to which you hold the copyright. Check the Terms of Service with Twitter for full details.
2. Under the Terms of Service with Twitter, you retain intellectual property rights in the material you supply to the service. Check the Terms of Service with Twitter for full details.
3. Under Twitter's Privacy Policy, your information may be accessed by a third party under the following conditions: research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve the services, etc]. Check Twitter's Privacy Policy for full details. 

Copyright, intellectual property and privacy (Delicious)

1. Under the Terms of Service with Delicious, you are granting permission to Delicious to publicly display and and distribute to others the content you post to their website. This means that you cannot sue the service for displaying the material material you post on their website. Check the Terms of Service with Delicious for full details.
2. Under the Terms of Service with Delicious, you do not retain intellectual property rights in the material you supply to the service. Check the Terms of Service with Delicious for full details.
3. Under Delicious' Privacy Policy, and the Yahoo! privacy policy as Delicious is owned by Yahoo!, your information may be accessed by a third party under the following conditions: for marketing. Check the Delicious and the Yahoo! Privacy Policy for full details. 

Cookies, monitoring, and emails

1. Most websites collect ‘cookies,’ small packets of data that are used again when you login to that site. Cookies are what enable a website to track your user details so that your preferences are remembered on the site, meaning that you don’t have to enter the same information over and over again. Cookies are not viruses or worms, do not generate spam or popups, and are not used for advertising. However, some internet users would prefer it if a ‘cookie trail’ weren’t left behind every time they visit a website, so different internet browsers let you turn off cookies so that such a trail is not laid down. If you don’t want cookies to track your preferences, you will need to set your browser’s privacy settings, options or preferences to turn off cookies. If you need more information about cookies, go to Wikipedia.org and search for ‘HTTP cookie.’ 
2. Search engines may find, index and cache the openly accessible information you provide to the service.

Responsibility for your work
Especially relevant if you decide to create a website for the tutorial paper!

1. You are responsible for anything that occurs under your account login. [This is reflected in the Terms of Service for the providers that you have signed up for.]
2. You are responsible for backing up your work. You should back up your work on a regular basis, whenever you make significant additions or alterations to the site, and at the point where you submit the work for assessment.
3. Your work will be date stamped, meaning that any changes made to your site after the due date will be noted. You are responsible for ensuring that your account’s timezone is correct.
4. Work generated under any particular login will be attributed to that login. For example, if you are working with another student and your work appears under that student’s login, then you will not be recognised as the author of that work. You need to make sure that your work appears under your own login. cannot claim to be the author of work done under another student's login.