Email Account Use

As described in the Acceptable Use and Security of Digital Information and Electronic Systems (GP24), incidental personal use of ITC resources (e.g., email) is allowed.

However, ARMD and ITS recommend that:

1. Shared and/or sponsored email accounts should never be used for personal activities;
2. Employees should refrain from using their SFU email account for personal activities (e.g., banking, corresponding with family, non-work related mail lists); and
3. All SFU business be conducted through an SFU email account (e.g., do not forward work emails and/or documents to your personal account so you can work on them at home, instead use the tools provided by ITS such as OneDrive and MS Teams to access documents remotely).

For example: