The electronic mail system is to be used for business purposes only. All messages sent by electronic mail are the property of the company. The company reserves the right to access and disclose all messages sent over its electronic mail system, for any purpose. Supervisors may review the electronic mail communications of workers they supervise to determine whether they have breached security, violated company policy, or taken other unauthorized actions. The company may also disclose electronic mail messages to law enforcement officials without prior notice to the employees who may have sent or received such messages.
Employees must not use an electronic mail account assigned to another individual to either send or receive messages. If there is need to read another's mail (while they are away on vacation for instance), message forwarding and other facilities be used must instead.
Unless the information owner/originator agrees in advance, or unless the information is clearly public in nature, employees must not forward electronic mail to any address outside the company network.
Employees must not create their own, or forward electronic mail messages which may be considered illegal, pornographic, or negatively depicts race, sex or creed.
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