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Family agreement
Having some house rules is a great way to keep your children safe online. It’s important that you agree together with your children how the internet will be used in your home. Below are a list of rules which you can talk about with your children and together select and agree the ones which are most important to you.
- I agree to keep all personal information private—including my name, home address, school address, email, home and mobile phone numbers and passwords.
- I agree to remember, that an online friend is a stranger in the real world so I will never arrange to meet someone I have met via the internet without my parent/carer’s knowledge and permission.
- I promise to tell my parent/carer if ever I feel uncomfortable about anything that I see or hear on the internet or mobile phone, or if someone online is making me feel awkward or pressurising me (regardless of what I might have said to this person already).
- I agree not to visit sites that I know I shouldn’t, for example, sites of a pornographic or adult nature—if I come across such a site accidentally then I will tell my parent/carer.
- I agree to respect other people that I’m talking to online and I won’t send nasty messages to other people or leave such messages on other people’s websites.
- I agree not to download unknown files from the internet without getting permission from my parent/carer.
- I agree never to buy or order anything online without asking my parent/ carer, or give out any credit card information.
- I agree not to send any photographs of myself, my friends or any other members of the family to anyone on the internet or by mobile phone without asking permission from them first.
- I agree to stop using the internet when my parent/carer tells me to, and to share it with other members of my family.
- I agree only to visit websites that my parent/carer has agreed to.
- I agree not to take pictures or videos with my mobile phone of my friends without asking their permission.
- I agree not to download files that I know that I shouldn’t (such as copyrighted music/games/films).
- I agree to ask my parent/carer before registering or signing up for things online including competitions.
- I agree not respond, reply or subscribe to unwanted email or spam.
- I agree to tell my parent/carer if I receive frightening or bullying text messages or emails or any message with unacceptable content.
- I agree never to open files from people that I don’t know.
- I agree to only have buddies on my instant messenger that I know in the real world.
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