VPAT 2nd Heading Level
VPAT 3rd Heading Level
Security violations or network abuse
Don't access or use Chico State Services directly or indirectly to, or in ways that create any of the following:
- Disrupt uptime: adversely impact the availability of our Services, or those offered by a Third Party.
- Denial of Service: create or pose a risk that can result in a denial of service attack on our Services or services of a Third Party.
- Bypass security: bypass or attempt to circumvent limitations or security mechanisms established by Chico State or a Third Party. This includes testing or reverse- engineering to find limitations, vulnerabilities, competitive research, or evading filtering capabilities. This doesn't apply to Chico State's published bug reporting program.
- Security risk: create a security or service risk to Chico State, our Services, or a Third Party.
- Malicious attacks: send or facilitate cyber attacks of any kind.
Wrongful Use
Don’t access or use Chico State Services directly or indirectly to, or in ways that:
- Fake engagement: create, promote, or publish artificial or inauthentic engagement, reviews, or other related content.
- Create multiple accounts: create multiple Chico State accounts in order to circumvent any of our Services or Third Party service limitations or restrictions.
- Spamming: generate or send unsolicited messages that you do not have permission to send to recipients or which are otherwise prohibited under applicable law.
- Intellectual Property Infringement: use, post, distribute, or violate Chico State’s or a Third Party’s intellectual property that you don’t have the right to do so.
- Misrepresentation: impersonate other people or businesses, engage in phishing, spoofing, or otherwise misrepresent yourself or misstate the origin of any content. Accounts on Chico State Services may not be created with throwaway email addresses.
- Circumvent or violate Third Party terms: use Services with the primary purpose of violating or circumventing the terms or restrictions of a Third Party.
Illegal, harmful, hateful activities, or content
Don’t access or use Chico State Services directly or indirectly to, or in ways that exhibit:
- Fraudulent or illegal activity: violate or facilitate the violation of any applicable laws or regulations.
- Violence: threaten, plan, or otherwise facilitate violent activities that intend to or will cause physical harm to people or property.
- Exploitation of minors: illegally exploit minors or their image, likeness, or recordings.
- Doxing: harvest, collect, or share peoples’ personal information without their consent, exposing them to potential harassment, identity theft, loss of jobs, and other harm.
- Hateful content: harass, intimidate, abuse, or discriminate against others based on race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, disease, or immigration status.
Promotion of hateful content
You may not use Chico State Services if you are an individual or organization that has publicly stated goals, purpose, principles, or actions that advocate, sponsor, or practice discrimination, harassment, or violence towards people based on race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, disease, or immigration status.
Violation of this policy
If you are using Chico State in violation of our AUP or Privacy Policy, we may investigate and take action. As every situation is unique, we review violations of this policy on a case-by-case basis. In some cases, we may contact you and request that you fix/otherwise address the violation. In others, we may temporarily or permanently suspend or terminate your Chico State account, with or without notice.
Definitions used in this policy
“QuickStart means QuickStart Learning, Inc. and its affiliated entities. Chico State is a university partner affiliate.
“Services” means the QuickStart cloud-based products, including the QuickStart learning dashboard (CLIPP) platform, QuickStart A.I. services, QuickStart learning community, and related tools, APIs, applications and services.
“Third Party” means Chico State on behalf of QuickStart customers, experts, integration and application partners.
Modifications to Acceptable Use Policy
We modified the Chico State Acceptable Use Policy to re-organize and simplify the content. By continuing to use Chico State Services after the Effective Date noted above, you agree to this Acceptable Use Policy. If you don’t agree with these modifications, your sole remedy is to cease using Chico State Services immediately.
This policy may change over time, so please check back regularly for updates and changes.