1.Online Safety Tips (from DCSF)

• Always respect others
  • be careful what you say online and what images you send.
• Think before you send
  • whatever you send can be made public very quickly and could stay online forever.
• Treat your password like your toothbrush
  • keep it to yourself! And only give your mobile number, IM address and other identifying information to trusted friends.
• Block and report bullies or any other behaviour that concerns you
  • learn how to block and report someone who is behaving badly online.
• Don’t retaliate or reply
  • you may make things worse and could get into trouble yourself.
• Save the evidence
  • learn how to keep records of offending IM, pictures and online conversations.
• Make sure you tell someone about bullying or other concerning behaviour:
  • an adult you trust (e.g. a parent or carer)
  • a helpline, like ChildLine – call free on 0800 1111
  • the service provider – check their website for details
  • a teacher or the anti-bullying co-ordinator at school

2. What tibboh expects from you?

• You initiate contact with your Main Adult Sponsor (an important adult in your life chosen by you) or your school validates your age classification, who will determine what online content (music, movie clips, games, educational, etc) that you can browse or purchase or which tibboh classification policy is applied to your internet browsing or user generated content access
• In addition we expect you to:
  • Be careful and only introduce Adult Sponsors who you know personally and your parents/carers know about
  • Take care with your account information and do not share it with others
  • Look out for others and report any bullying, inappropriate behaviour or content that you believe is not appropriate for your age. Equally report where you are not able to access a website that you think you should be able to.
  • Respect the tibboh system and refrain from behaviour that could undermine the tibboh community or technology

3. Networking

• Currently social networking sites are subject to a tibboh classification policy of 15. However, we are working on the imminent deployment of technology that may enable certain social networking services to be provided with a lower tibboh classification

1. Precedence on Content Access

• Students will only be able to access content based on the age/school year, as validate by their school, during the hours of school as determined by the school.
• Outside of these hours access to digital content services will be determined upon the age provided by the Student’s Main Adult Sponsor whereas their tibboh classification will be based upon age validation provided by the school

2. Allocation of Services

• Schools can manage the allocation of educational content service to individuals for personalised needs or across self-defined user groups (year groups, subject groups, field trip participants, etc) for pre-determined periods and reallocate any outstanding licences at all times, subject to individual licence conditions for the content
• Schools can elect to delegate different management and coordination task across as few or as many staff as is required for their size/complexity of organisation

1. Governance

• tibboh adopts a three strand approach to the ongoing determination of what content is accessible though the secure internet connectivity service.
• Firstly, tibboh has created an Education Board consisting of experience professionals (psychologist, medical experts, family therapists, etc) in the field of child development and education who are able, based on the current capabilities of technology combined with accepted norms on social behaviour, to advise tibboh on how best to adapt the service to be appropriates to different age groups
• Secondly, tibboh is a Member of BBFC online. [see 2. below]
• Thirdly, tibboh seeks feedback from all users who are able to report instances where they have experienced content that they believe was inappropriate or, as importantly, have been unable to access material that they believe should be available to them based on their age.

2. Internet Sites

• Working with the BBFC, tibboh has developed its own classification scheme for internet sites and user-generated content. By deploying and improving on some of the best technology that is currently used in education, tibboh seeks to ensure that children are able only to view content that is safe and appropriate for their age level when they use tibboh mobile internet. Sites and UGC (User Generated Content) content with a tibboh classification have not been classified by the BBFC
• The tibboh classifications are

• tibboh U (content that a should be suitable for all ages)
• tibboh PG (content that should be suitable for children between ages
  7 – 11 or Key Stage 2 in schools)
• tibboh 12 (content that should be suitable for young people  older than 12 or Key Stage 3 and above)
• tibboh 15 (content that should be suitable for young  people older than 15 or Key Stage 4 and above)
• tibboh 18 ( content suitable for age 18 and above but taking into account a duty of care as per IWF).

3. Digital Content

• tibboh is a Member of BBFC online. This is a voluntary Scheme run by the British Board of Film Classification to give consumers clear information about the content of films, programmes and other video works, using BBFC classification symbols and consumer advice
• The Scheme helps people to make informed decisions about their own and their children’s internet viewing, and seeks to ensure that works with an age-restricted classification (e.g. ‘12’, ‘15’, ‘18’’) are not supplied to any person below that age. If you have any comments about the BBFC classification information we have displayed, please contact us at info@tibboh.co.uk in the first instance. If you have any comments on the classification of a particular video, please contact info@bbfc.co.uk.
• Commercial digital entertainment content accessed or downloaded by children via tibboh mobile internet (such as films, DVDs, videos and some video games) is classified by the BBFC under the BBFC online scheme using the same standards as used for cinema films and DVDs. The BBFC monitors the tibboh service to check that age restricted content is not being supplied to persons below the appropriate age.

4. Search

• Currently search sites are subject to a tibboh classification policy of 12 as the proportion of search results filtered below this age become a significant detraction from usability

5. Social Networking

• Currently search sites are subject to a tibboh classification policy of 12 as the proportion of search results filtered below this age become a significant detraction from usability

6. Adult Age Validation

• tibboh determines age based on a number of different filters, each of which provides increased comfort that the individual is the age claimed by them or on their behalf. On this basis different levels of service [ LINK to Mobile Dongle tab 1c] are permitted or different classifications applied. The over-riding challenge for tibboh is to ensure that children and young people are not inadvertently subjected to content that is inappropriate for their maturity (as determined by a key adult in their life and/or their school). The main boundary in this respect is the 15 to 18 classification where Adult content could be permitted. However, tibboh will only apply an 18 content to those individuals who have, at some point, been age validated by a bonafide School and have now reached the age of 18
• This philosophy requires that all Adult Sponsors are provided with a tibboh classification of 15, in order to avoid young people with credit cards acting as adults.
• Furthermore, those who are permitted to access online content normally reserved for Adults, will find that, in order to provide a duty of care for educational establishments and other organisations,
  certain categories of website and digital content
  (e.g. not complying with IWF ) will not be accessible
  through the tibboh service.
• tibboh recognises that this may not be acceptable to all users
  and would not promote tibboh as a solution for
  any individual who wishes to have unfettered
  internet access.

1. Main Adult Sponsor

• The Main Adult Sponsor (parent, career, guardian, relative, etc) fulfils two key roles for the tibboh user. Firstly, in establishing the age level for the user that will determine not only the level of content that the user is able to access but also the web policy or user generated content policy that will be applied to their online experience
• Age verification at this stage is achieved through the chosen adult registering their credit card. A small administration fee (currently £1) is charged at this stage. Initiation of the invitation to be the Main Adult Sponsor is entirely at the control of the user (e.g. the young person)
• tibboh recognises that in some circumstances, credit cards can be issued to certain young people under the age of 18 but over the age of 14. Consequently, tibboh will only accept credit cards of age up to a maximum classification of 15
• In situation where the Main Adult Sponsor does not have or wants to use a credit card, age validation can be achieved through the child’s school

2. Adult Sponsors

• All Adult Sponsors are visible to the Main Adult Sponsor

1. Security & Access

• Many tibboh services can be accessed through a Vodafone mobile internet dongle or through all other usual routes of internet access.
• However, certain services that require higher levels of security (e.g. safer filtered internet access, tibboh social networking for U and PG, general social networking for 12 & 15 , etc) will only be permitted through tibboh recognised access (e.g. mobile broadband)

2. Access to Service

• Services are currently designed to operate through broadband (mobile and fixed) internet connectivity and have been configured and tested for standard browsers (IE7 & Firefox 3). However, it will generally work for IE6, Chrome and Safari as well.
• Service have been designed for a display screen interface of 10inches. Although smaller screens will display the website and application, tibboh has not yet been optimised for use on mobile browsers or smaller screen sizes and resolutions

1. Summary

• Tibboh’s overall policy on data and a key feature of our security risk management strategy to ensure the safety of children and young people, is to request the minimal amount of data absolutely necessary to establish each different type of user account (User, Sponsor, School, Content Partner, etc) such that the account user can perform the roles required from them (e.g. Main Adult Sponsor validates their age via credit card in order to validate a users age)
• Additional information will only be requested when the users requires to undertake additional activities (e.g. a user transfers to a school)