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Safe Surfing Checklist Ways to Keep Your Child Safe Online: Place the computer in the most public room in your home. Establish ground rules for Internet usage. Share time online by surfing on the Internet with your child. Instruct your child not to give out personal information without your permission. Read the privacy policy of any site that asks for personal information before you allow your child to respond. If your child wants to meet in person someone they've met online, make sure a parent is present. Instruct your child never to respond to email or chat messages that make them feel uncomfortable. (And ensure that your child reports such messages to you when/if they occur.) Inform your ISP (Internet Service Provider) of any inappropriate uses of the Internet encountered by you or your child. Encourage your child to share their online experiences with you. Know exactly what various parental control tools Creating a Family Pledge for Online Safety Topics to discuss while creating your family pledge include: Time online: Discuss how much time they are allowed to spend online, and whether their computer use is dependent on conditions such as finishing their homework, doing chores, etc. Location/Supervision: Decide whether there are restrictions or guidelines on the physical location where the kids can go online. Can they go online at school? In the library? At a friend's house? Are they allowed to be online when no adult is around? Personal information: Kids should never give out personal information, such as their full name, address, phone number, school, or picture, to anyone they meet online. Web sites: Talk about which kinds of web sites are okay, and which ones are off-limits. Are they limited to sites related to their schoolwork? Sites that are designed especially for kids? Meeting online friends: Kids should never arrange to meet an online friend in person without an adult present. Chat rooms: Explore a few chat rooms together while discussing your guidelines. What is your comfort level with this method of communication? Do you want your children to chat in monitored chat rooms only? Are your children allowed to send personal messages to people they've only met online? Check out the "Chat" category Inappropriate material: Kids should never respond online when they feel uncomfortable or scared by something they've seen or read. If they have any doubts, they should find an adult immediately and show them the inappropriate material. The Golden Rule: Remind your kids to behave towards other kids as they would like people to behave towards them. Something that could hurt another child's feelings on the playground will still hurt when received by email or in a public chat. Family Pledge for Online Safety As a family we make the following promises about our time spent on the Internet: Me: __________________________________________________ (Child's name here) ___ I agree that I can only use the Internet between _____ and _____ (times of the day) and for up to ____ hours each day. ___ I agree that an adult needs to be around while I'm online. ___ I wouldn't even think of giving out personal information about myself or anyone in my family (including names, pictures, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, name or location of my school) to anyone I meet online - no matter how nice they seem - without my parents' permission. ___ I will not respond to anything online that makes me feel uncomfortable or scared. Instead, I will immediately share the message or web site with my parents or teacher. ___ I will keep one secret: my password. I won't even share that with my best friend. ___ I will not meet in person anyone I've only met online without my parents agreeing and accompanying me. ___ I promise to treat the people I meet online as I myself like to be treated. ___ I will share with my parents the cool stuff I find online. (After all, they want to enjoy the Internet, too!) ___ I will keep these promises whether I'm at home, school, the library, or at a friend's house. Okay. Now, Parent(s): __________________________________________________ ___ I will explore the Web with my child and communicate clearly my expectations regarding where and how he/she can use the Internet. ___ I will make valiant efforts to keep with up with my child's Internet expertise, and I will allow my child to teach me new online tricks! ___ If my child does find something online that makes him or her uncomfortable, I will immediately follow up with the source of the message or with my Internet service provider. I will understand that my child is not to blame for SPAM. ___ I agree to help my child find cool kid stuff online, whether it's for homework or for plain old fun! Signed on this Date: ______________________________ By the following extremely COOL SURFERS: Child: __________________________________________________ Parent: __________________________________________________ Choosing Online Identification with Your Child Each person who ventures online needs an ID - a unique nickname (or alias) that allows him or her to be recognized while participating in the Internet community. Even your child will need an ID. When the two of you sit down to choose one, have fun and be creative. Don't worry if your child's ID is an inside joke between the two of you. That's fine. Remember, this is one way that the Yahoo! online community will be able to identify your child; let them wonder. You don't want strangers to know too much about your child just from reading their ID. Online IDs do tend to communicate something about the person behind them, so be certain of what you are willing to share. For example, the name "Butterflyfan" communicates that this user is apparently fond of butterflies. Fine. There is little risk of someone being able to distinguish one fan of butterflies from the millions of others who exist in the world. On the other hand, the name "Butterflies4Jane" goes a little further. It provides someone with a name - both a conversation starter and a misguided sense of familiarity. When you and your child sit down to brainstorm his or her new online ID, leave out the following personal information: First and last name Address Phone number School name Parent and sibling names On the other hand it's fine to make up a name that includes the following favorites: Colors (ex: Blueskies, GreenFrogg, YellowFellow). Animals (KingLizard, Elephantastic, HorseJumper). School mascots or colors (Highlander1, Sharks4ever, RednBlueWinner!). Music groups (HansonFan, OtherHansonFan, AlsoHansonFan, AnybodyLikeHansonLikeMe) Vacation spots (KonaKid, Beachbum, DisneyFan, Mountaineer). Sports or sports team (Ftballer, HockeeFreek, Soccerdude). Hobbies (ChessKing, ChessQueen, StampStamp, FlyaKite). Games, video and others! (MasterBlaster, Obi, Hobbitfun, LaserGuider). Whatever you choose, remember that your role is to guide your child as he/she finds a name they are happy with - one that is suitable, not too revealing, and (most important) fun. Enjoy! Public Profiles and Aliases (a.k.a Screen Names) Besides assigning a name to an online presence ("Hello, I'm HansonFan42"), Yahoo! IDs allow you to tell the world something about yourself. If you maintain a profile page for your Yahoo! ID, you can list your real name, age, city of residence, email address, interests, and much more. Then, if you use Yahoo! Message Boards or Yahoo! Pager, other users can easily access your profile and this information. While this is great for adults who might be able to handle the public exposure, we encourage you to keep your child's profile information to a minimum. You just don't know who might access the information. All the information on a profile page is optional. You are not required to enter any of it. Generally a username is all that is required to begin posting messages and using Yahoo! Pager. But, your child may want to provide more information in his/her profile, so sit down and determine what would be acceptable for others to know. Also consider adding guidelines for profiles in your family's Pledge for Online Safety Unfortunately, even if you only have your child's username listed in his/her profile, people can still contact them using email or Pager by simply placing a @yahoo.com after their username. To prevent this from happening and to further protect your child, we also encourage you to create aliases for them. An alias allows a person to use message boards and Pager without giving others the ability to randomly contact them. For more information on User Profiles, entering relevant information, and creating aliases, see the Yahoo! Profiles help center. For a more in-depth discussion on choosing a Yahoo! ID with your child, check out our Yahoo! ID guidelines for children. Reading Privacy Policies Web Sites and the Collection of Personal Information: Today many web sites (including Yahoo!) ask their visitors for personal information. These sites may use personal information to, among other things, send a free newsletter, allow visitors to shop online, help customize a web page, determine what kind of advertisements to display, better understand audience demographics, or allow visitors to enter a contest or game. The point is that there are many different uses for personal information, and many of them offer real value. But before you give out information about yourself or your child, look for and carefully read a site's privacy policy. A privacy policy is a statement that explains how a web site will treat the personal information it collects from its visitors. Reading and understanding the policy will help you to make an informed decision about whether or not you'll share your personal information. Look for sites with policies that: Are easy to find. Many web sites have a link to a privacy policy somewhere on the front page (often on the bottom or on a sidebar), and/or on the pages where they collect personal information. For example, Yahoo!'s Privacy Policy is linked on the bottom of the front page of Yahoo! and on our registration page. Clearly tell you what kinds of things they do or don't do with your personal information. For example, do they share it with anyone outside that company? Do they sell or rent their user lists? Do they share or use information only in "aggregated" form? (this usually means they have removed your personally identifying information so that they can tell partners or advertisers that a certain percentage of their visitors are women, etc.) Explain your choices of how your data will be used. For example, can you opt out of third party use of your information or remove yourself from a shared mailing list? Tell you how to update, change, or delete your information, or whom to contact if you have any questions about the policy. Describe how they protect the privacy of kids (users who are under the age of 13). Many web sites are participants of TRUSTe or BBBOnLine®, a progam of the Better Business Bureau. These are third-party seal programs that review the privacy policies and practices of their participants. Participants of either program must meet and maintain a minimum standard of privacy protection before they are allowed to display a seal. In addition, both the TRUSTe and BBBOnLine® programs have special privacy seals for sites that collect information from kids or that have kids as their target audience. Please note that the above are provided as examples only. If you would like more information on these third-party privacy seal programs, please click on the seal to go to that program's web site. We are proud to say that Yahoo! is a member of TRUSTe and that Yahooligans! was the first web site for children to display the TRUSTe kids seal. Special Note About Children's Privacy: The safety and privacy of children is extremely important to us. We have taken measures to protect the safety and privacy of kids by implementing Family Accounts, blocking children from access to certain areas, and not permitting them to engage in certain activities on Yahoo!. At Yahooligans! The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act requires sites that target kids or know that a visitor to their site is a child under the age of 13 to follow certain rules established by the Federal Trade Commission. One of the rules is that a site must get parental consent in order to collect personally identifying information from kids under the age of 13. Yahoo! complies with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. For more information on children's privacy, please visit the FTC's Kidz Privacy web site Kids love to participate in contests, sign up for newsletters, or join Internet communities, and yet during this online interaction many sites still do not determine a user's age or treat kids differently from adult users. Make sure your children know to ask for your permission before they give out ANY personal information about themselves to any web site or in response to any email message. Kids should know to look for a privacy policy and they should read it over with you before you decide together whether or not to share personal information. We encourage you to read privacy policies on the sites you visit, including the Yahooligans! Privacy Policy As online shopping becomes more and more commonplace, you'll probably purchase something online with a credit card if you haven't already. More likely though, is that your children, without a credit card of their own, will want you to buy them some clothes, music, books or other items over the Internet. While you may want to just give them your credit card to save the time and trouble of having to do it yourself, we encourage you to keep your credit card and credit card numbers private. Giving your children credit card information gives them access to shopping sites as well as adults sites with pornography or gambling. Since credit cards are not issued to people under 18, many adult sites require a credit card to verify that users are old enough to view mature content. If you provide your child with your credit card information, your child could easily gain access to inappropriate sites. Adult sites and online stores have no way of knowing that your child is using your credit card -they simply assume it is you. Regardless, you are still responsible for any purchases or transactions your child places, whether you were aware of it or not. In short, don't allow your children to use your credit card freely online unless you want them to have unlimited access to both shopping and adult content sites. If you decide to let your children use your credit card to make online purchases, carefully monitor their transactions and establish guidelines beforehand for what they can buy and how much they can spend. Be sure to check your credit card statements afterward to see if the merchants have correctly billed you and your children have not made other purchases in your name. Adult sites often disguise their names on billing charges so contact your credit card company for clarification on any unknown charges on your bill. |
