Using laptops on business and at home guide Guide

Overview

If you break a ACME laptop through carelessness or deliberate misuse, you won’t be given a replacement.

Care

  • store the laptop appropriately
  • keep clean and dust-free
  • keep away from food, drinks, animals and children

Security

Never:

  • let family or friends use your ACME laptop
  • leave unattended in a public place
  • leave a laptop unattended overnight
  • put in hold baggage on public transport or planes
  • leave on show in a car, even when you’re inside the car
  • leave overnight or for long periods in a car boot
  • use a laptop bag – use less obvious bag instead

Always:

  • make sure the laptop is in your line of sight and secured if you got to a restaurant or bar
  • take your laptop with you to the toilet, unless you trust a colleague to look after it
  • store your laptop in your room safe or with front desk at a hotel, whenever you’re not in the room

Data

  • keep the login and password for your laptop separate from the equipment
  • store sensitive documents on a ACME issued data stick away from the laptop
  • do not store personal information on your laptop