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Online Safety
Keep it private
When you are chatting to people or posting things online make sure you keep your own and other people’s personal information private. If you have created your own online space, profile or website, make sure it’s set to private so that you can control who can view your thoughts, ideas, images and videos. Bear in mind that future academic institutions and employers may search for you online to see if you are the right person for them.
Keep it cool
If you or someone you know is being bullied online or via mobile phone, you have a right not to have to deal with it on your own. It's important you save the messages or conversations, or make a note of the website address and show an adult you can trust to help resolve the situation. Remember not to accept this kind of behaviour - from anyone - online or offline.
Keep in Mind
Not everything you see nor everyone you meet online is reliable. People you have only met online are strangers, no matter how long you have been talking to them or how friendly they are. Because meeting up with these people can be dangerous only do so with your parents' or carers' permission, and even then only when they can be present. If you only go with your friends you risk putting them in danger too. Anyone can put or say virtually anything on the Internet so remember that not everything is true; make sure you compare information with other websites, books and by talking to people before you believe it.
Keep in control
Adults who go online to chat to young people and arrange to meet up in order to have sex are breaking the law. If you have met with someone online and conversations with that person are making you uncomfortable tell an adult. You can report it to the police. All reports are taken seriously and a police officer will contact you to help sort the problem out.
Keep it legal
If you receive a rude or embarrassing image or text about someone don't pass it on. Distributing sexual pictures of other young people by mobile is illegal. If you receive something like this, do not forward it and tell an adult immediately.
Keep your mates safe
Think before you send a picture or video from your phone and always ask your friend's permission before taking a picture of them. Once you have sent a picture from your phone you have lost control of it and it could easily be copied, changed, or used elsewhere online. Respect the privacy of your friends; don't give out their numbers without their permission. Create your own widget to express your online digital citizenship values and wishes for yourself, your friends and your world at: www.digizen.org
- O2: 0870 5214 000 or ncb@02.com
- Vodafone: Call customer services on 191 from a Vodafone phone or on any other phone call 08700 700 191 for Pay Monthly customers or on 08700 776 655 for Pay As You Go customers.
- Three: Call 333 from a phone, or 08707 330 333
- Orange: Call 450 on an Orange phone or 07973 100 450 for Pay As You Go customers; call 150 from an orange phone or 07973 100 150 for Pay Monthly customers
- T-Mobile: Call customer services on 150 from your T-Mobile or on 0845 412 5000 from a landline, or email using the “how to contact us” section of the T-Mobile website at www.t-mobile.co.uk
Advice… Help… Report…
If you are concerned about something that may have happened while online, you can click the CEOP button and get advice, help or report it. If you are in immediate danger or want urgent help call 999 or contact your local police. You are doing the right thing and by taking this action you may not only help yourself but also help make other people safer as well.
When logged into facebook
You may report abuse by using the proper “Report” link that appears next to many pieces of content on the site. You may also report another user by using the “Report/Block” link that appears at the bottom of a user’s profile page. If this does not resolve the issue, we suggest that you block the person by listing his or her name in the “Blocking People” box that appears at the bottom of the Privacy page.
If you have already blocked an offender or have been blocked by an offender posting abusive content, please have another user report the abusive content or the offender through the one of the various “Report” links available on the site.
Below is a link that you will be able to access from home and NOT in school. It has a whole list of information for you to read through, and REMEMBER teachers are here to listen as well if you are not comfortable reporting abuse online.
The Digizen website provides information for educators, parents, carers, and young people. It is used to strengthen their awareness and understanding of what digital citizenship is and encourages users of technology to be and become responsible DIGItal citiZENS. It shares specific advice and resources on issues such as social networking and cyberbullying and how these relate to and affect their own and other people’s online experiences and behaviours.