What is PARENTAL CONTROL & What is it for?

 

What is PARENTAL CONTROL &

What is it for?

With the technological revolution that we are currently experiencing, minors have more and more contact with all these technologies, they are even the ones who teach their parents or grandparents to use computers, tablets or mobile phones.

 

In addition, all these new technologies are very helpful when it comes to studying or simply to be able to contact their friends in a more comfortable way. But all this use of technology can also become a problem for them, since the dangers they contain are very high, such as cyber bullying or sexting. Along with the above, contacts with unknown people are increasingly frequent on various social networks, and these people are not always to be trusted. In addition, minors can also access content that is inappropriate for them, such as content of violence, pornography or radicalism.

For this reason, more and more parents looking for a solution to all these problems opt for parental control tools such as Protegent Total Security

What is Parental Control?

A parental control system is a tool that allows parents to control and / or limit the content to which their children can access the internet from their devices, whether they are computers, mobiles or tablets.

One of the parental control tools that currently exist is Protegent Total Security/ Parental control, with which parents can learn in a comfortable and simple way, thereby protecting their children from the possible threats that they may suffer in their different mobile devices

How do these tools work?

The operation is usually very simple and intuitive, the application is installed on the mobile or tablet, and an account is created on the web with which it connects to the mobile, with this you can already enjoy the advantages that these tools have and the tranquility they offer to their users.

The characteristics that this type of tools may have available are the following:

·         Web Control: Parental control will allow you to block websites based on the different categories that exist, or if you prefer, you can put specific web pages which can be blocked.

 

·         Application control: In this way we can prevent our children from having access to certain applications such as instant messaging programs, social network applications, access to web browsers, access to Google Play or Apple Store to make purchases, etc.

 

·         Call blocking: With this tool you will be able to block telephones to which calls cannot be made or received, in addition to defining the operation for international calls or unknown numbers.

 

·         Time of use: With which you can control the amount of time of use that your child can have access to different categories such as games or browsers.

 

·         Alarms: With this you can set alarms for your child's device, notifying him of anything.

 

·         Geolocation: It allows you to know the location in which your child is located, knowing where they are in real time.

 

·         Emergency Button: Add a "Panic Button" to your child's phone with which it sends you an emergency alert warning of an exceptional situation.

 

Not all applications incorporate all the functionalities mentioned above. The PARENTAL CONTROL, Protegent Total Security allowed to use all of them and more. Although all these characteristics are very good and provide great help, they are not always 100% effective, so we attach great importance to educating the proper use of the devices that minors use, so that all these tools can function in a much more effective way, and that both you and your child can be as calm as possible with the use of mobile devices.