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Yes, we may only have an award program but the safety of children on the internet is a main priority with us. We find the risks for young persons intolerable so we do the very best we can to make “our place safe space!”

Common advice to parents suggests not allowing your children to spend hours on the Internet but we do not automatically subscribe to that theory for if your child sat down with the encyclopedia and kept switching to different books to get deeper and deeper into an area of interest, you wouldn't object would you?

The Internet is child-driven learning this being one of the best types of learning. It generates excitement, energy and a feeling of power. The fact that it occurs on the computer rather than through big, heavy sets of books with very small print and no moving pictures does not diminish its value.

Parents have to take the lead in protecting their children in the computer age as well as in the park. This means knowing what is going on. On-line services are very responsive to parents and safety concerns and they are making it easier and easier for parents to monitor what is going on and where their children are spending their time.

As parents we need to go on the Internet ourselves. This will open communication between ourselves and our children who want us to know why the Internet is important to them. We need to participate and be the voice for balance. The Internet is more seductive than television and it can be an extraordinary tool and friend or it can be a sinkhole for time and money. As parents, we need to take the lead and keep it!

The Safe Sites For Children image certifies that this web site meets their criteria to be registered and thus listed with them. Our search keyword is o.n.z.c.d.a.

ICRA™ labels are expressed using the Resource Description Framework ( RDF ) as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium. Specifically, ICRA™ was instrumental in defining and now uses RDF Content Labels, a generic platform designed to support digital labels and trust marks of all kinds. Use of RDF means that ICRA™ labels are part of a much bigger global effort to make sense of the mass of online data known as the “Semantic Web.” RSS news feeds, blogs, shared bookmarks and many other technologies are based on RDF and related standards. In order to facilitate filtering for parents using PICS filters ( such as Microsoft Internet Explorer's Content Advisor. ) since January 2006, ICRA™ has also provided a simplified PICS interpretation of the current vocabulary alongside the RDF labels.

Our SAFESURF™ and ICRA™ PICS labels and iWatchDog metatags apply across the board within the onzcda.com Domain and are displayed under the terms and conditions of the SAFESUF™, ICRA™ and iWatchDog™ labeling and / or licensing agreements. A version of the same ICRA™ label encoded in the older PICS standard is also coded into all pages within this web site. This provides compatibility with legacy systems such as Microsoft Internet Explorers Content Advisor.

To carry out SAFESURF™ or ICRA™ tests in this web site we provide for your convenience image links the bottom of all pages. Just access the linked image, insert the URL of the page you want to test and press the test button. The SafeSurf™ and ICRA™ labeling standards are voluntary systems designed to assist in the protection of young children on the Net. These tool will inspect the page and tell you if the PICS Labels tags are placed correctly in web pages and whether the PICS Label is valid. The SafeSurf Site Inspector only checks the HTML placement of the SafeSurf Rating Label - it does not certify for you that the site has ben appropriately rated for content. For further information see: Discussion on SafeSurf™ and iWatchDog™ labeling.

.RAT files are used by IE Content Advisor. If viewers want to protect their children from harmful content on web sites they must enable Content Advisor and change the settings to select the .RAT files - ICRA™, ICRA3, SafeSurf™, RSAC™ - whichever they wish to use. Of course, the web sites they wish to view must be PICS labeled with the associated rating organization to be viewed in IE.

This means that viewers must have the .RAT files installed on their computers in order to use Content Advisor. Older versions of IE came with ICRA™ and RSAC™ pre installed and IE7 comes with ICRA3, RSAC™ and a new one called TICRF ( Asian. )

‡For information on installing and using ICRA3 .RAT files, read: ICRA3 .RAT Info  

‡For information on installing and using SafeSurf™ .RAT files read: SAFESURF™ .RAT Info  

Access this link to verify that the O.N.Z.C.D.A™ home domain is listed with Child Safe International™ CSI™ SEARCH    - Use search keyword - o.n.z.c.d.a

Note: iWatchDog™    is a subsidiary of Child Safe International.

We believe in and support child safety on the internet and take all steps available to ensure that no web site that could be classified as 'at risk' will be displayed from our pages.

The TOTW Family Safe image certifies that this web site meets their criteria in the area of family safe viewing. Although this web site is no longer accepting listings, you can be assured that the web sites listed are Family Safe.

The Trustworthy Web Site image certifies that this web site meets the following requirements: family friendly, a child safe surf, highly ethical and spam free.

The Family Friendly Site image certifies that this web site meets the criteria fir listing in their family friendly sites directory. Use search keyword - o.n.z.c.d.a

The NetSafe image certifies that this web site meets their criteria in the area of family safe viewing and that the O.N.Z.C.D.A™ owner supports their policies.

The Institute Family Safe image certifies that this web site meets their criteria as an Associate member.