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Terms and conditions for use of UCN's IT systems

The terms are part of UCN’s IT security policy and are designed to protect the institution’s data as well as student data in relation to UCN. This ensures that everyone can use UCN’s IT systems safely and responsibly.

As a student, you must accept the terms and conditions below in order to use UCN’s systems, which are necessary for your studies. It is also a prerequisite that you have a smartphone capable of supporting multi-factor authentication (MFA) through an authentication app.

Your responsibilities

As a student or course participant at UCN, you must follow the rules and guidelines issued by UCN IT and Digitalisation Office on the safe use of UCN's IT systems. This is vital to ensure that all data and systems run as intended and are protected against unwanted incidents.

Monitoring of activities on UCN's systems

UCN logs and stores your digital activities when you use UCN's IT systems. We do this to secure operations, protect systems and to allow us to react quickly to any technical or security issues.

We may use logged data in the following scenarios:

  • Technical error detection
    UCN uses logged data to detect and correct technical issues in the IT systems.
  • Security breaches
    In the event of a security breach, real or suspected, logged data may be used to investigate what happened and to safeguard UCN's data in the best possible way.
  • Security alerts
    If UCN's security systems identify a threat – such as compromised login credentials, data or systems –
    logged data will be used to investigate and counteract any risk.

Use of networks

When you are on UCN's networks, you may not download or distribute copyright-protected material without the appropriate permissions. Obviously, hacking and distribution of virus or malware is also strictly prohibited.

To use UCN's IT systems, you must accept the above rules which were laid down to protect you as well as
UCN's IT systems. 

If you experience, witness or suspect security breaches, please contact the Service Centre on campus or log a case with UCN helpdesk, and they will guide you on what to do.