How it works

How your rules reach your child's PC

You set the rules in your account. SafeScreen's cloud sends them to each of your child's devices, and an agent on the PC applies them to every browser and app.

Step 1

You set the rules

In your SafeScreen account, each child gets their own policy. You can force safe search on, block particular sites and words, and customise the block page they see.

Step 2

The SafeScreen cloud delivers them

Every device keeps a persistent, encrypted connection to SafeScreen. When you change a policy, the server pushes it to every online device for that child within about five seconds. You don't have to go near the PC.

Step 3

The agent enforces them on the PC

SafeScreen runs in the background on the Windows PC and applies your rules to every app your child opens. If the PC goes offline, the last rules it received stay in force, and it picks up any changes as soon as it reconnects.

Inside SafeScreen

The three checks SafeScreen runs

SafeScreen sits between your child's apps and the internet. It checks which site is being opened, which page on that site, and what the page says.

Blocked sites

If an app tries to reach a site you've blocked, SafeScreen intercepts the request.

BlockedAs far as the app can tell, the site doesn't exist.

SearchGoogle, Bing, DuckDuckGo and YouTube only return safe results.

Blocked pages

Even on a site that's allowed, individual pages you've ruled out won't open.

MatchThe page doesn't load. Your child sees the block page instead.

FlexibleBlock a whole site or just one section of it.

Banned words

SafeScreen also looks through the text of a page for words you've banned.

KeywordIf one turns up, your child gets the block page instead of the page.

PrivateThis check happens on the PC, so page contents aren't sent to us.

Always on

Built to stay running

SafeScreen installs as a Windows service, which means it's already running before anyone logs in.

It starts at boot and keeps running after your child logs out.
Only an Administrator can install, change or remove it.
Each device has its own install key, so a copied install can't secretly run on another PC.
safescreen.net is always reachable, so the agent can check in at any time.

SafeScreen Agent

Protecting this PC

DeviceElla's PC

PolicyUp to date · 4s ago

ConnectionEncrypted · online

UpdatesAutomatic

The agent's status view on the child's PC.