Online safety measures for children - Extramarks Educates children on online safety measures

Child Safety

PARENTS AND TEACHERS PARTICIPATION IN THE LEARNING PROCESS

Extramarks values the concern that a parent or teacher has towards their ward regarding their educational needs. Hence, Extramarks is constantly engaged in designing learning tools to empower all parties i.e. parents, teachers (mentors) and students. An active participation of all these groups ensures a foolproof learning solution for the child.

STEPS TO START LEARNING WITH EXTRAMARKS

  • First, register with all the details over www.extramarks.com and review the demos.
  • Ensure that your ward is well acquainted to the learning solutions and various tools.
  • Encourage your kid to do self-study.
  • Monitor the child's performance through reports.

WARDS WITH ACTIVELY INVOLVED PARENTS/TEACHERS

  • Experience stress-free Learning experience.
  • Achieve consistent and long term academic success.
  • Adapt to a positive learning behavior.
  • Gain better grades in their tests and performances.
  • Gain analysis to their strengths & weaknesses and corrective measures.

INTERNET AND CHILD SAFETY

Internet has become an integral part of our lives and revolutionized our communication process. World Wide Web is a wonderful resource for children. At the same time, it poses challenges to your children's safety and privacy as well. It's important to keep updated with what your children see and browse on the Internet. To ensure healthy learning from the internet, vigilant parenting and monitored usage is necessary. Extramarks is committed to provide safe and enriching learning experience online.

TO ENSURE CHILD SAFETY, EXTRAMARKS AIMS TO

  • Advise parents with the basics of online safety
  • Educate children on online safety measures

ADVICE TO PARENTS

  • Learn: Be computer literate and learn to block objectionable material
  • Share: Share an email account with your child to monitor messages
  • Bookmark: Bookmark frequently visited sites for quick and easy access
  • Spend time: Spend time online together to teach your children appropriate online behavior
  • Advise: Refrain children from entering chat rooms. Be aware that posting messages to chat rooms reveals a user's email address to others
  • Limit: Limit their online time per day aside from a special school project
  • Check: Check your credit card and phone bills for unfamiliar account charges
  • Monitor: Monitor what your child did without your supervision
  • Explain: Explain as how to react in case they come across inappropriate content
  • Respond: Respond to your child when he/she reports an uncomfortable online experience

INTERNET SAFETY TIPS

  • Keep the computer in a common room of the house so that you can keep an eye on the computer activity
  • Sit along with your children while they browse internet
  • Check web history to know the sites they visit
  • Switch on the Filtering and Safe-Search options
  • Ask children not to share personal information (names, addresses, or phone numbers) on public sites
  • Create a screen name to protect their real identity
  • Teach children not to pirate software or other utilities
  • Protect passwords and ask children not to use 'Remember me' option on public computers like at school or in net cafes
  • Brief children about 'Report Abuse' and 'Flag' options in case they come across inappropriate content
  • Avoid 'In-person meetings' with people they meet online
  • Advise children to check the credibility and genuineness of the information on sites
  • Install Parent Control software that helps block access to certain sites
  • Use parent-control options to block inappropriate material
  • Follow online safety tips for a safe internet experience

It is important to show children your concern by actively participating in learning with Extramarks. Share the fun and excitement of learning in a brand new way, sit with them, appreciate their efforts, encourage them to explore and excel.

COOKIES

Cookie is a very small text document that includes an anonymous unique identifier. When a user visits a website, that site's computer asks user's computer for permission to store this file in his/her hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to a browser if the browser's preferences allow it. To protect your privacy, a browser permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent, not the cookies sent by other sites.

Use of cookies makes web surfing easier by saving Passwords, personal preferences regarding use of the particular website and makes sure that the user don't see the same ad repeatedly. Many consider the use of cookies to be an industry standard. If the user chooses to have his own browser refuse cookies, it is possible that some areas of our Site will not function properly. The user may note additionally that if he visits Extramarks website where he is prompted to log in or that are customizable, he may be required to accept cookies. Advertisers and partners may also use cookies. Extramarks does not control use of these cookies and disclaim responsibility for information collected through them.

HOW DO WE SECURE INFORMATION TRANSMISSIONS?

Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, Extramarks requests its users to not send private information to it by email. This Site does not, however, provide facilities for secure transmission of information across the Internet. The user should be aware that there are inherent risks associated with the transmissions of Personal Information via Internet.

If the user does not wish to use Internet to transmit personal information, he can mail/phone Extramarks. Details are provided under 'How to Contact us'.

HOW CAN YOU ACCESS AND CORRECT YOUR INFORMATION?

Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. Users may, by calling Extramarks, access their personally identifiable information that Extramarks collects online and maintains in its database.

CERTAIN DISCLOSURES

Extramarks may disclose a user’s personal information if required to do so by law or subpoena or if it believes that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the law or comply with legal process served on it or affiliated parties; (b) protect and defend its rights and property, its site, the users of our site, and/or itsaffiliated parties; (c) act under circumstances to protect the safety of users of the site, us, or third parties.

WHAT ABOUT OTHER WEBSITES LINKED TO OUR WEBSITE?

Extramarks is neither responsible for practices employed by Websites linked to or from the Website nor the information/content contained therein. Often links to other Websites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to the users of the Website.

The user should remember that when a link is used to go from Extramarks’ Website to another, Extramarks’ Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. The user’s browsing and interaction on any other Website, including Websites which have a link on Extramarks’ Website, is subject to that Website's own rules and policies. The user read over those rules and policies before proceeding.

CHILDERN'S PRIVACY

Extramarks does not collect personal information from children below the age of 15. Upon realizing that a child is aged below 15, it deletes their personal information from the systems. Even for personal information of children aged 15 years and above, information is collected only for the purpose of educational requirement and service needs as provided by this website.

SPAMMING

Sending unsolicited mail messages, including, without limitation, commercial advertising and informational announcements, is expressly prohibited. A user shall not use another site's mail server to relay mail without the express permission of the site.

It is contrary to Extramarks’ policy for customers to use its servers to effect or participate in any of the following activities:

Upon learning about an alleged violation of its Acceptable Use Policy, Extramarks will initiate an investigation. During the investigation Extramarks may restrict Customer's access in order to prevent further possible unauthorised activity. Depending on the severity of the violation Extramarks may, at its sole discretion, restrict, suspend, or terminate Customer's account and pursue other civil remedies. If such violation is a criminal offence, Extramarks will notify the appropriate law enforcement department of such violation.

  • To post in any Usenet or other newsgroup, forum, e-mail mailing list or other similar groups or list articles which are off-topic according to the agreement or other owner-published FAQ or description of the group or list.
  • To send unsolicited mass e-mailings, if such unsolicited e-mailings provoke complaints from the recipients.
  • To engage in any of the foregoing activities using the service of another provider, but channeling such activities through Extramarks provided server, or using Extramarks provided server as a mail drop for responses.
  • To falsify user information provided to Extramarks or to other users of the service in connection with use of Extramarks service.