The University of North Carolina at Charlotte will maintain an official Home Page on the World Wide Web through the University's web server. The Home Page will be established as a service to the general public and the University community. The University encourages its subsidiary divisions and members of its faculty and staff to establish links with the official Home Page when doing so will promote the identity, mission and goals of The University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

The official University Home Page will bear the Universal Resource Locator (URL) address of www.uncc.edu. Responsibility for development and maintenance of the official Home Page, for its aesthetic and logical design, and for its information content will be shared by the Office of Academic Affairs, the Office of Student Affairs, and the Office of Public Relations. Library and Information Services will provide technical support for the Home Page.

A group consisting of representatives from those four offices will develop, promulgate and implement policies for determining what web pages are directly accessible from the official Home Page. The group will also adopt and promulgate guidelines for achieving a consistent "look" and "feel" of all web pages directly accessible from the official Home Page. The group will also monitor the resources required for and public benefits of maintaining web pages accessible through or otherwise linked to the official Home Page.

It is anticipated that the group will solicit from appropriate colleges, departments, institutes, and other subsidiary offices content for inclusion into the official Home Page. Home Pages established on University web servers must adhere to the following broad policies:

• Web pages are considered an extension of the University and must conform to all University policies. Use of disk space on the University's web server and linkage to the University's official Home Page are privileges, not rights, and can be revoked by the University.
  
  
• Information in web pages must be consistent with what is published in the University's Catalog or other official University documents.
  
  
• Guidelines governing use of the University's name and logo on any publication also apply to web pages. These guidelines are available from the Office of Public Information.
  
  
• Users who put up individual web pages must clearly delineate between their official responsibilities for the University and other interests.
  
  
• Each web page author is responsible for insuring that information on the page is accurate and conforms to University policies and all applicable federal, state and local laws. The head of any University unit that maintains a home page is responsible for reviewing the content, look and feel of any subsidiary home page directly accessible through the unit's home page.
  
  
• Each web page mounted on the University web servers must clearly identify the individual responsible for the page, the date the page was last updated and an acknowledgment of responsibility for the page.
  
  
• Web pages mounted on the University's primary web server must be updated regularly. Those not updated after six months will be purged by the Webmaster (a technical position within the staff of the Information and Technology Services). The author of the web page will be notified at least two weeks before the purging is scheduled.
  
  
• Information and Technology Services will have responsibility for maintaining the University's primary web server.
  
  
• Priorities for computer resource allocation to support web pages will be consistent with the guidelines currently being developed for allocating computer resources in general.
  
  
• Account owners understand that the use of TCP/IP File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and/or unsecured HyperText Protocol (HTTP) to transport Administrative Information Data and/or Student Information Data and/or any other Information Data that is restricted by federal and state laws from host computer networks and other campus computer networks over the campus network will result in the data being transmitted in an unsecured and "clear text" format.

Failure to adhere to University Policies may result in Account Termination and/or Web Page removal from the web server.

If you have further questions, please send e-mail to the Web Support Group at webmaster@uncc.edu.