The Omnivox Technology, develop by Skytech Communications, used by the McGill University subscribes to very rigorous rules with regards to security and confidentiality. Every precaution has been taken so that the information pertaining to you is protected again any error, loss or unauthorized access.
All of the operations carried out via Omnivox are encrypted in order to assure the confidentiality of the information circulating between Omnivox and you.
Access is controlled by several firewalls filtering access requests in order to identify and neutralize any unauthorized penetration attempt.
It is important to close your session as soon as you are done using or when you must, in the course of using, leave for a moment.
Cookies are used in Omnivox. These files are used to identify you from one visit to the next and from one page to another within your work session in order to facilitate your access and browsing. Cookies can only be read by the Web site that transmits them to you.
The cookies used in Omnivox help to gather your browsing preferences and do not contain any other sensitive information.
To achieve an optimal experience, we suggest using Omnivox with the following browsers:
Use of this service is governed by the Policy on the Responsible Use of McGill Information Technology Resources.
It is expressly forbidden to access or to permit access to any Omnivox service for illegitimate ends. Will be considered as illegitimate:
Any attempt to access an account that is not your own constitutes fraudulent use liable to severe sanctions, including expulsion from your establishment. These sanctions are in addition to any other appropriate recourse in terms of civil or criminal law suits.
Other than for the usage purposes for which Omnivox is intended, it is strictly forbidden to reproduce any information, data, text, message or any other form of content presented via Omnivox by any means whatsoever.
It is therefore notably forbidden, without being limited by, to
Any infraction to these usage restrictions render the guilty party liable to severe sanctions including expulsion from McGill University. These sanctions are in addition to any other appropriate recourse in terms of civil or criminal law suits.
For your convenience, Omnivox proposes links to sites, third party sites or services, such as resource sites or pedagogical material. We have no control over the content or operation of these sites nor over their practices and their functioning.
Any user who puts online information using Omnivox must not infringe any copyright, any trademark and any other law, title or interest of intellectual property belonging to any third party. The user who puts content online using Omnivox must ensure that they obtain or possess the necessary rights allowing them among other to include on Omnivox any element (in part or whole) that is the intellectual property of another.
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