About this site: what it publishes, and what it refuses to do
Practical internet safety guidance for families, classrooms and older adults. Free to read, no accounts, and every guide dated so you can tell whether it still matches your screen.
Most guidance on this subject fails in one of two ways. It alarms without instructing, or it instructs using a menu that has since moved. This site is organised around avoiding the second, because a parent who follows a guide and hits a screen that does not match concludes that the controls do not exist, and then does nothing at all.
What this site is
Four things, and nothing else. Setup guides for the nine platforms children actually use, each followed on a real device and dated. A reference library of the risks families meet, each with an ordered list for the moment it happens. Six tools that run in the browser without an account. And a set of ten house rules, printable, which cover the half of this subject that no device setting reaches.
Those four are the setup guides, the threat library, the toolkit and the ten house rules. What ties them together is a single claim: this is a subject that generates far more anxiety than it does work. An evening on the settings and an evening on the rules is a proportionate response, and everything here is arranged so that evening is possible.
Who it is written for
Adults guiding children, which means parents and teachers primarily. The tone is deliberately adult-to-adult: nothing here is written to be frightening, and nothing is written to a child over an adult’s shoulder.
Two other audiences have their own sections. Children and teenagers get pages written to them, not about them, because material that reads as a lecture is not read at all. And older adults get their own guidance, because the scams aimed at that group follow different scripts and the useful advice is genuinely different.
How the guidance is kept current
Every setup guide carries the date it was last walked through, step by step, on a real device. When a platform ships an update that renames or relocates a setting, the guide is followed again and the date changes with it. That date is the only quality claim these pages make and it is the one worth checking.
Statistics come from named public reports (a national fraud reporting body, a regulator, a published study), cited with the date the source was checked and linked so you can read the original. Where a figure cannot be traced that way, it does not appear, which is why there are fewer numbers here than on comparable sites.
What it refuses to do
No advertising aimed at children, anywhere. No signup wall, no email gate, and no document that requires an address to download. No invented statistics, and no real statistic without the report it came from. No testimonials, no counters of families helped, and no scare copy: the aim is a household that acts, not one that panics.
It also declines to sell monitoring. Products whose pitch is that you will not have to talk to your child are selling the idea that this can be delegated to software, and it cannot: the technical layer removes accidents and has nothing at all to say about intent.
The Dutch section
Part of this site is published in Dutch, covering the same ground for households in the Netherlands and Flanders: veilig internetgebruik, chat, digital bullying, safe shopping, filters and the golden rules. It is not a translation of the English pages; the topics that matter differ slightly, and so does the advice about which services children use.
The English and Dutch pages that correspond to one another are linked in both directions, so a reader who lands on one can reach the other.
Questions about this site
Is the guidance free?
All of it, with no account, no email address and no document behind a form. Nothing on the site requires signing up to read or to use.
How is it funded?
Some pages carry a link to a commercial site where that link is genuinely useful to the reader, and such a link can earn the site a commission. It never decides what a page recommends. The full statement is on the editorial standards page.
Why are there no author names?
The guidance carries the site’s name and no bylines. For a setup guide what matters is whether the menu path is current, which the date at the top of the page answers more usefully than a name would.
Do you cover every platform?
No, deliberately. Nine platforms cover nearly everything children actually use at home, and a guide for every device in the house would be longer and less useful, and impossible to keep current, which is the whole point.
Can I reuse the printables?
Yes, for classroom and household use, including adapting them. A rules poster a class rewrote is more effective than a finished one, and that is the intended use.
How do I report something wrong or out of date?
Say which page, which step, and what appears on your screen instead. That is enough to reproduce and fix, and reports about a menu that has moved are the most useful kind because they usually arrive before the platform documents the change.