Information means information of any kind used in any way in County systems. Examples include messages, communications, e-mails, files, records, recordings, images, graphics, transmissions, signals, programs, macros, software, and data. Publishing means using systems to disseminate or spread information to the public or beyond the user's area of authority within the County. Examples include newsletters, web pages, fliers, chain letters, and postings to Internet groups or to e-mail lists. Systems includes other systems accessed by or through those devices, such as the Internet, e-mail, cable television, and phone services.
Systems includes designs, specifications, passwords, access codes, and encryption codes.
Systems also includes any identifiers for devices, users, or accounts. Use, uses, used means any use of County systems to affect information in any way by County employees, officers, agents, or volunteers. Examples include using systems to search, produce, calculate, extract, forward, print, publish, receive, send, transmit, apply, run, control, download, upload, record, copy, rename, access, alter, delete, erase, encrypt, or store any information. Systems and information are County property. All systems and information are, and shall remain, the property of the County, subject to its sole control.