Internet use monitoring

This section describes how to monitor the child's web activity from your account on My Kaspersky.

About Internet use monitoring

With Internet use monitoring, you can find out what websites your child has visited and restrict their access to websites with unwanted content. You can use the default settings (based on your child's age), or you can adjust the settings according to the needs of your child.

Internet use monitoring offers the following features:

• Safe Search

  When your child searches for information on the Internet, content from the following categories will be blocked:

  • Adult content
  • Alcohol, tobacco, narcotics
  • Profanity, obscenity
  • Extremism, racism

  The Google (including "Ok Google"), Bing, Yandex, Yahoo!, DuckDuckGo, and Ecosia (iOS devices only) search engines are supported. Supported search engines also block search results that do not fit your child’s age. On Windows devices, Safe Search on YouTube is also provided.

  Safe Search supports the following browsers on devices running iOS: Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Yandex, and Opera. On Android devices, it supports Chrome and Huawei Browser.

  The Safe Search feature also blocks restricted content if your child's browser is in the private mode (the specific name of this mode depends on the browser).

• Safe Search on YouTube

  You can restrict your child’s access to content hosted on YouTube. We will block the search results that are classified in the following categories:

  • Adult content
  • Alcohol, tobacco, narcotics
  • Profanity, obscenity
  • Extremism, racism

  When your child tries to open a video that is classified as unsafe, they will see a message that states that access is forbidden for these search results. At the same time, you can receive notifications about their search attempts.

  Reports and alerts are available only in the premium version of Kaspersky Safe Kids.

• YouTube monitoring

  You can find out what videos your child watches on the YouTube website. You can view the full list of videos and associated details, such as when each video was watched, in the Reports section in the Kaspersky Safe Kids app for Android and on My Kaspersky. Try to use this knowledge to learn more about your child and share their interests.

  On your child's device, use of the YouTube website can be monitored only in the Google Chrome browser. Statistics from use of the YouTube app are not included in the reports.

  Due to iOS technical limitations, this feature is unavailable on your child's iOS devices.

• Notifications about searches on restricted themes

  If your child searches for restricted content, Kaspersky Safe Kids notifies you and highlights such search queries in reports. The categories of your child's search queries are defined by Kaspersky Safe Kids.

  This feature is available only in the Premium version.

• Website category restrictions

  You can restrict your child's access to websites that belong to specific categories. For each category, you can set one of the following options:

  • Allowed. Your child can visit websites in the category.
  • Warn. When your child tries to open a website, Kaspersky Safe Kids notifies your child that visiting the website is not recommended. Your child can heed the warning and leave the website or ignore the warning and go to the website.
  • Forbidden. When your child tries to open a website, Kaspersky Safe Kids blocks it and displays a warning window. Your child can select Ask for permission to request access to the forbidden website.

  Some website categories are already forbidden according to your child's age.

  In Samsung Internet Browser, Kaspersky Safe Kids does not block forbidden websites if these websites are opened in a background tab.

• Specific website restrictions

  You can restrict your child's access to specific websites or allow access to a website that belongs to a forbidden category. You can set one of the following options for a website:

  • Allowed. Your child can visit the website. Select this option if you need to allow access to a website that belongs to a forbidden category.
  • Forbidden. When your child tries to open the website, Kaspersky Safe Kids blocks it and displays a warning window. Your child can select Ask for permission to request access to the forbidden website.
• Block access to all websites or customize access by website category

  You can restrict your child's access to all websites. However, you can also customize the settings and choose the kinds of websites your child can access, by category:

  • Allowed. Your child can visit websites in the category.
  • Forbidden. When your child tries to open a website, Kaspersky Safe Kids blocks it and displays a warning window.

  This feature is unavailable on macOS devices.

• Reports on your child's activity on the Internet

  You can find these reports on My Kaspersky in Kids → Internet → Reports. You can view a list of your child's search queries and visited websites. Websites in forbidden categories are highlighted.

  Kaspersky Safe Kids records your child's web browsing history if the Web activity monitoring switch is turned on.

  Reports are available only in the premium version of Kaspersky Safe Kids.

You can configure delivery of notifications when your child attempts to visit forbidden or unrecommended websites on My Kaspersky or in the parent's mobile app.

On iOS 13 devices, the Internet use monitoring feature has some limitations. Learn more

How to turn web activity monitoring on or off

To turn web activity monitoring on or off:

1. Go to the Kids tab.
2. In the upper part of the window, select the profile of the child whose web activity you want to monitor.
3. Go to the Internet subsection.
4. Click the Settings button.
5. Use the Web activity monitoring toggle switch to turn monitoring on or off.

On iOS 13 devices, the Internet use monitoring feature has some limitations. Learn more

How to turn Safe Search on or off

To turn Safe Search on or off:

1. Go to the Kids tab.
2. In the upper part of the window, select the profile of the child.
3. Go to the Internet subsection.
4. Click the Settings button.
5. Make sure that the Web activity monitoring toggle switch is on. If the toggle switch is off, flip it on.
6. Use the Safe search toggle switch to turn Safe Search on or off.

On iOS 13 devices, the Internet use monitoring feature has some limitations. Learn more

How to enable or disable Safe Search on YouTube

This feature blocks inappropriate search results (results that are categorized as Adult content; Alcohol, tobacco, narcotics; Profanity, obscenity; Extremism, racism) on YouTube.

To enable or disable Safe Search on YouTube:

1. Go to the Kids tab.
2. In the upper part of the window, select the profile of the child.
3. Go to the Internet subsection.
4. Click the Settings button.
5. Make sure that the Web activity monitoring toggle switch is on. If the toggle switch is off, flip it on.
6. Use the Safe Search on YouTube toggle switch to enable or disable the feature.

This feature is currently available only on Windows devices with Kaspersky Safe Kids 1.0.5.4096 and later, on Android devices with Kaspersky Safe Kids 1.33 and later, on iOS devices with Kaspersky Safe Kids 1.48 and later.

How to turn notifications about searches on restricted themes on or off

To turn notifications about searches on restricted themes on or off:

1. Go to the Kids tab.
2. Select the profile of the child.
3. Go to the Internet subsection.
4. Click the Settings button.
5. Make sure that the Web activity monitoring toggle switch is on. If the toggle switch is off, flip it on.
6. Use the Notify about searching on restricted themes toggle switch to turn this feature on or off.

On iOS 13 devices, the Internet use monitoring feature has some limitations. Learn more

How to set up access to website categories

To set up access to website categories:

1. Go to the Kids tab.
2. Select the profile of the child.
3. Go to the Internet subsection.
4. Click the Settings button.
5. Make sure that the Web activity monitoring toggle switch is on. If the toggle switch is off, flip it on.
6. In the Restrictions for website categories section, perform one of the following actions for a website category:
   • To allow the child to access websites of the selected category, select Allowed in the drop-down list of this category.
   • If you want the application to show a warning when the child attempts to visit a website of the selected category, select Warning in the drop-down list of this category. The child will be able to dismiss the warning and open a website.
   • To forbid the child from accessing websites of the selected category, select Forbidden in the drop-down list of this category.
7. Click the Save button.

Within a few minutes, the new settings are applied on the child's devices if they are connected to the Internet.

On iOS 13 devices, the Internet use monitoring feature has some limitations. Learn more

How to set up access to websites regardless of their category

To set up access to websites regardless of their category:

1. Go to the Kids tab.
2. Select the profile of the child.
3. Go to the Internet subsection.
4. Click the Settings button.
5. Make sure that the Web activity monitoring toggle switch is on. If the toggle switch is off, flip it on.
6. Specify the website address in the Exclusions section.
7. Perform one of the following actions for the specified website:
   • To allow the child to access the website, select Allowed in the drop-down list.
   • To forbid the child from accessing the website, select Forbidden in the drop-down list.
8. Click the Add button.

   The website address appears in the list of exclusions.

9. Click the Save button.

Within a few minutes, the new settings are applied on the child's devices if they are connected to the Internet. On iOS 13 devices, the Internet use monitoring feature has some limitations. Learn more

How to block all websites apart from exclusions

This feature is currently available only on Windows devices with Kaspersky Safe Kids 1.0.5.4096 and later, on Android devices with Kaspersky Safe Kids 1.33 and later, on iOS devices with Kaspersky Safe Kids 1.47 and later, on macOS devices with Kaspersky Safe Kids 1.7 and later

To block all websites apart from exclusions:

1. Go to the Kids tab.
2. Select the profile of the child.
3. Go to the Internet subsection.
4. Click the Settings button.
5. Make sure that the Web activity monitoring toggle switch is on. If the toggle switch is off, flip it on.
6. In the Restrictions for website categories section, select Block all websites apart from exclusions.
7. Click the Save button.

Within a few minutes, the new settings are applied on the child's devices if they are connected to the Internet.