Sky Parental Alert

Why you might need Sky Parental Alert

The Internet is a huge part of children's everyday live. They use it for education, entertainment, and communication. However, whilst today’s teenage generation have grown up using the Internet, most of their parents are less familiar with the types of web services their children are using. This can often mean that parents are unaware of exactly what their children are doing online. Recent research completed by our partner, Crisp, suggests that 6 out of 10 UK parents are "Extremely Worried" or "Quite Worried" about whom their children may be talking to online.

Despite this growing parental concern, there are surprisingly few practical tools available for them to protect their children whilst they’re using Instant Messenger (IM) and online chat services. Most of the time children just want to use these types of services to keep in touch with their friends, but how can parents be sure that anyone else their children meet online are who they say they are? In the relative anonymity of a chat room, it is all too easy for a predator to pose as a child in order to befriend and win the trust of others - a process called "grooming".

Child protection tools based on blocking, locking, and filtering web content have been available for years and they play an important role in protecting children from inappropriate web content, but unfortunately they can’t protect children using IM / chat type of services without blocking their access to them altogether.

With Sky Parental Alert, parents can give their children the freedom to access web services they want to use without having their safety compromised.


Parental Alert

Sky Parental Alert

  • Give your children their independence: Sky Parental Alert works with most major IM services and social networking sites, which means that you no longer have to limit or ban your children’s access to them.

  • Maintain your children’s privacy: Although Sky Parental Alert monitors every one of your children’s IM / chat messages, it won’t give you or anyone else access to them unless it spots suspicious or potentially dangerous behaviour taking place.

  • No false alarm: Sky Parental Alert is far more sophisticated than traditional child protection tools because it analyses individual’s behaviour as well as message content. This means you won’t receive an alert every time your children use or receive a naughty word.

  • Keeping you up to date: You’ll receive an email every time a new IM account is created in your household, which means that you can ensure that every one of your children’s accounts is monitored. We’ll also send you a monthly account status report.

  • Easy to use: Sky Parental Alert is quick and easy to download, and can be set up in a few minutes. Once it’s up and running, you’ll only need to login occasionally to assign a new IM account or check an alert.

  • Protect your children for only 10p a day: Sky Parental Alert costs only £3.50 per month and is even better value if you choose an annual subscription for £35. What’s more, you also get the first month of protection completely free.


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