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Admin Access Agreement

TERMS

AGREEMENT: By using the Administrative functions of this website, or by becoming an Administrator, Editor, or Contributor (Admin) you are bound to everything on this page. PLEASE, READ CAREFULLY.

  1. No Credential Sharing: Never share your username or password with someone else. Our system can detect shared credentials and, by sharing credentials, you damage a factor in our determining and sensing if there is unauthorized activity which can result in: loss of data and our forcing all other users to reset their passwords.

    Your indiscriminate actions can cause hours of extra work, loss of all recent posts, and the temporary loss of access for all other Admins, not to mention inconvenience for other Admins.

    Example Scenario: You are at an Action or Demo and need to post an update to the website. However, you aren't able to post and so, you give your credentials to another trusted member so that they can post for you. The system then detects the intrusion and locks out all other users (and deletes all updates made in the last 24 hours, as a security precaution) and causes a manual reset of all passwords which takes days to implement. The results of your action are that no user can post to the website for days and the recent updates to the website (presumably about the demo or action) are now gone.

  2. No Snooping: You agree to access and alter only the information for which you have responsibility or authorization, and not to view information that you have no need or authorization to see as part of your responsibilities. Access to or use of the ACTUP NY website and the data it contains for your own personal gain or profit, for the personal gain or profit of others, to satisfy personal curiosity, or for any other reason except as specifically authorized by ACTUP NY is strictly forbidden.

    Notice: we keep detailed logs of all user activity and we can later tell that you've been snooping. This snooping can often be uncovered weeks later during a security audit.

    Example Scenario: You are in the WordPress admin area and you see a Draft Post from someone else. It looks interesting, and you click Edit to view the post. While reading the post you get distracted (the phone rings) and you forget that you have the Edit Screen open and this creates a condition where the original Author can't edit their post until you close your Edit Screen. Worse yet, your browser later crashes resulting in a condition where the post is permanently locked. You have no idea that this has happened and that you've just "innocently" locked another Admin out of their file. They have to recreate the page again or contact support--all because you were curious. This example may seem trivial but the point is that when you access things that you have no business accessing you increase the risk that you may do something wrong or that something unexpected may happen and since you had no reason to be using that file or functionality there is added trouble in fixing and finding the root cause of the incident by the support staff.

  3. Respect Confidentiality: You will respect the confidentiality of individuals to whose information you have been given access. You will not view or disclose that information except as required by your responsibilities and as allowed by ACTUP NY policies and/or applicable law.

  4. Abuse of Privilege: You understand that the transactions processed with your ACTUP NY access may be audited, and appropriate action will be taken if improper uses are detected. Logging in as others without demonstrating organizational need, attempting to alter security profile information, and purposefully transferring/deleting/altering a task without a cause are examples of misuse. You understand that abuse of your privileges is strictly prohibited.

  5. Follow All Policies and Procedures: You agree to follow the privacy, security, and other policies and procedures established by ACTUP NY, as well as: the terms and conditions of gPowerHost providing hosting services for ACTUP NY, state and federal security and privacy laws and regulations that apply to the use of my ACTUP NY access.

    Note: ACTUP NY's hosting company has a strict Anti-Spam Policy and violating that policy by sending out unsolicited bulk email can easily result in the loss of hosting services and serious damage to ACTUP NY's Email Reputation which will follow ACTUP NY to any new hosting company they decide to move to.

  6. Revocation of Access Rights: You understand that, should you leave your current post or position, either through transfer or termination, your access rights will be revoked, unless your new position requires you to perform the same duties.

FAILURE TO COMPLY: We reserve the right to refuse service and access to any Admin not adhering to the above rules or our requests. Additionally, we reserve the right to remove any content or contribution or, terminate any access agreement, if in our sole opinion, we feel they have violated these terms or refused any safety, security, privacy, or information request and we reserve the right to do so without any prior warning, notice or other procedure.

You understand that you will be held responsible for the consequences of any misuse occurring due to any neglect on your part.