Tiscali: Protect your Children

Yes, Crisp fully complements your existing PC security, like Anti Virus for example, by seamlessly protecting the child using the PC. Crisp is compatible with all mainstream Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam and Personal Firewall products, and can be installed in less than 2 minutes.

Will Crisp work with the system my children use?
Crisps software is currently compatible with the following instant messenger services and social networking sites: MSN, Windows Live Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, Jabber and MySpace. Once you have given Crisp each of the account details your children has on these services they can begin to monitor their chat.

Will the Crisp software monitor my instant messenger accounts as well as my childrens?
If there are adults in the house who use these services then you can enter their instant messenger account details and switch off the monitoring service for that account.

Furthermore, should a new account be opened in your household then Crisp will detect it automatically and e-mail you to tell you about it. You can then allocate a user to the new account and decide whether or not it should be monitored.

Will the Crisp software work if I already have Parental Controls switched on?
Standard security packages with parental control will not protect your children from online groomers. These packages are designed to allow you to control what types of sites and content your children should be allowed to look at. This is useful, especially for younger children, but it will not protect any children using instant messenger and social network site chat rooms via your home PC from being groomed.

Scanning for dirty words isn't enough. Groomers are cunning. So, The Crisp software checks over two hundred factors, from sentence patterns to typing speed. Crisp learns by comparing millions of samples.

There's only one way to keep children safe from the threat of grooming without barring them from online contact. Crisp can read between the lines of Instant Message conversations to spot grooming patterns and alerts parents to what's going on.

Tiscali has partnered with online safety experts, Crisp, to offer its customers Crisps unique technology to help indentify dangerous online relationships.

The Crisp software is the only technology of its kind in the world and surpasses existing child protection programmes.

It does this by analysing the content of online conversations to identify inappropriate relationships initiated by predators wanting to groom, and potentially abuse, children.

Available here for a subscription of £3.50 a month or £42 a year, the software makes parents aware of inappropriate relationships in their childrens instant messaging conversations.

Independently tested by Cambridge University researchers to be 98.4% effective in identifying inappropriate relationships, the technology detects grooming by recognising the ways abusers behave.