Terms of service
These terms of use are based on Gitlab’s and Funet's terms of use and guidelines. These guidelines give a framework for activity in the DC laboratory, its network and services and in the Funet network. Below is some important terminology:
- Funet = Finnish University and Research Network, maintained by CSC (IT Center for Science Ltd., Tieteen tietotekniikan keskus Oy)
- Gitlab = Web-based DevOps lifecycle tool
- KAMK = Kajaani University of Applied Sciences, Kajaanin ammattikorkeakoulu Oy, Funet's member organisation
- KajakDC = Abbreviation used for KAMK's datacenter
- DC laboratory = Classroom TA12L142 at KAMK, where the student datacenter is located
Guidelines
DC laboratory's guidelines consist of law and good manners. For example, it is forbidden to:
- Find and test IT security vulnerabilities, and monitor the network without permission.
- Distribute material protected by copyright (For example, P2P, Direct Connect networks).
- Install and use pirated software.
- Act with someone else's identity.
- Collect data disturbing another person's privacy, break the secrecy of correspondence, or monitor the network's or system's usage (from log files, for example).
- Disrupt or damage the KajakDC or Funet network's operation.
- Create IT security vulnerabilities.
In addition, as per good conduct it is forbidden to:
- Ignore personal IT security. This includes personal user ID, as well as securing the resources of both virtual and physical systems.
- Expose the DC laboratory to IT security vulnerabilities (for example, visiting harmful websites).
- Give personal user ID to another person.
- Excessively use or purposelessly allocate the datacenter's or DC laboratory's resources.
- Purposelessly use resources (for example, gaming not related to the teaching).
- Use or distribute information about systems not meant as public knowledge.
- Cause harm to other users of the DC laboratory, its network, or the users of the Funet network.
Terms for selling services
- Client's services and information cannot be inspected without authorization.
- Client's services will be terminated immediately at the expiration of contract.
- Funet services and connection cannot be resold.
- Funet's traffic cannot be routed to a third party network or vice versa without making an agreement with CSC.
- Responsibility to make sure that client's services and the network usage adhere to these terms and guidelines and comply with the current legislation.
Obligation
- I adhere to actively participate in solving and preventing disruptions.
- I adhere to the documentation of the services I set up for any use.
- I adhere to use DC laboratory’s Gitlab service only for educational purposes and will not use it for commercial, professional, or any other for-profit purposes.
User account retention policy
- If the account has not been used for 90 days, it will be deactivated (user can self reactivate the account by logging in web interface)
- If the account has not been used for two years, it will be deleted automatically
Backups
- Users are generally responsible for backing up their work
- KajakDC does only weekly backups