Labeling Discussion

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•  Acknowledgement: Sincere thanks go to Denny Lancaster owner of the  Talking Hands Award Program who provided the majority of the information within this discussion.

There are two distinct site/page 'content safe' child rating systems we use: one being RSACi - the other being SAFESURF™ where we use the PICS method.

•    SafeSurf™ Web site owners/designers have a choice: they may either label their entire web site within the insertion of one (1) PICS label into their index page plus add separate labels into pages that do not fit into the criteria of the initial index page label or they may label all web pages individually.

Using a SafeSurf™ PICS code page by page is entirely proper but from a “child safe” perspective, someone wishing to truly have an ease in administering “child protection” for their children or other children would more than likely preferably have the one source designation - like the option for an entire web site versus page by page.

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Nothing will take ever the place of parental inspection page by page and on a continuing basis. In addition neither SafeSurf™ or any other “child protection” rating group is any better than those who would inspect, find misclassification of “child safe” and report those findings to the issuing group.

Both Denny and myself remain convinced that to basically determine whether a web site is properly labeled as child safe on the basis of coding placed within the head of a web site, does not and will never take the place of a reviewer visiting each and every page.

But we also realize that once a thorough and complete investigation has been made that there is a distinct probability that a web site may fall out of compliance as first inspected thoroughly this being caused either by PICS or RDF code quality or narrative or even some pictures contained within the web site.

Note: PICS Rating of your web site content with  SafeSurf™ is required before ICCS™ Certification submission will be approved. (SafeSurf™ is the only ICCS™ certified content rating system with a current active license.)

If your web site is oriented to children under the age of thirteen (13) years or collects information from a child who is thirteen (13) years of age or younger a privacy statement is now a mandatory feature of a web site in accordance with FTC and EU regulations.

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