gctel.com, a service of
Gardonville Cooperative Telephone Association

Acceptable Use Policy for Gardonville Internet Services

The Gardonville Internet Service is a commercial endeavor that was established to provide access to the internet. It is made available to all business, academic, government, and private subscribers for a reasonable fee.

The Gardonville Telephone Network uses a combination of communications transmission and specialized switching equipment to provide a high speed, wide area communications network service that provides inter-organizational connectivity for its subscribers to other regional, state, national, and international networks.

General Policy
All information transiting the Gardonville Telephone Network is unrestricted unless it is listed as unacceptable under this policy.
It is the policy of Gardonville Telephone to provide its subscribers electronic access to the broadest possible number of organizations connected to the internet. This is accomplished through connectivity to one or more state, multi-state, regional, or national "backbone" networks. All information that exists on the Gardonville Telephone network and traverses the numerous other networks to which Gardonville Telephone is directly or indirectly connected, must conform to the acceptable use policies governing those networks.

Private Policy
It is the responsibility of all subscribers or subscriber organizations to:

Respect the privacy of other users, and not to seek information pertaining to other users without their explicit permission. This includes but is not limited to personal data passwords, access to confidential files, or modification of files belonging to other users
Use the network service in a manner that is consistent with ethical practice and accepted community standards

Copyright Policy
It is the responsibility of all individual subscribers or subscriber organizations to respect the legal protection provided by copyright and license to programs, data and other information that may be accessible over the Gardonville Telephone Network

Personal Web Page Policy
All subscribers to the Gardonville Internet Service are allowed, as part of their subscription, 250K of storage space for a personal web page. Gardonville Telephone monitors these pages for content and usage. Any web page found to be used for promotional or business advertising purposes will be subject to current monthly storage fees and/or will be removed after a 24-hour notification to the subscriber.

Unacceptable Use Policy
It is not acceptable to use the Gardonville Telephone Network services or facilities for any purpose:

Which would violate any applicable laws or regulations
Where the meaning of the message or content of a file would likely be highly offensive to the recipient or recipients
Which makes unauthorized entry into other computational, information storage, communications devices or resources
Which propagate computer worms, viruses, or transmissions of any type which cause disruption to disable or otherwise impede the recipient's facilities or equipment
Which causes disruption of service due to facilities overload (DoS)
Promoting profanity, nudity, or other adult material

Responsibility
All users of the Gardonville Telephone Network, whether organization or individual, are responsible for publicizing this Acceptable Use Policy at their locations.
The ultimate responsibility for assuring the acceptability of use according to this policy is with the individual end-user who originates the communication.

Enforcement
The Gardonville Telephone Board of Directors or its designee will review alleged violations of this policy on a case-by-case basis. A violation may result in denying the users access to the network, termination of access to all services and forfeiture of all fees paid.
Evidence of illegal activities will be reported to the appropriate law enforcement authorities.

Policy Modifications
Gardonville Telephone reserve the right to modify this policy at any time. Subscribers will receive prompt notification of all changes.

Information
Questions related to this Acceptable Use Policy should be sent to:

Gardonville Coop Telephone Association
ATTN: Dave Wolf, General Manager
PO Box 187
Brandon, MN 56315