Terms and Conditions

Terms of Service

This website provides Google SafeSearch results free of charge to any user from any location with internet access. All search results are delivered from Google’s main search engine domain at google.com with safe search automatically activated within the approved policies of the Google Custom Search Engine Program.

Safe Search Kids is not directly endorsed by Google, nor is it directly affiliated with or acknowledged by Google. The tools used on this website has been created and implemented by a Google Custom Search account in partnership with Safe Search Kids.   For our privacy policy and how we use cookies click here.

Search results are provided by the default search results as determined by Google SafeSearch filtering. Within the guidelines of Google Custom Search, additional urls (full websites including sub domains, or individual pages therein) have been removed as we deem them inappropriate for our users.

We welcome suggestions from our users in order to add to the filtering effectiveness of Safe Search Kids. All requests submitted through our contact page by users for removal of additional urls (websites, whether in whole or in part) from our search results are reviewed by us within 48 hours. Implementation of these removal requests, or the decision to not comply with these suggested exclusions, are subject to our discretion as to whether the information on said urls (websites or pages therein) are in deeded inappropriate for our users. Safe Search Kids makes every effort to reply to individuals who contact us with suggestions on our search results.

Please read these terms and conditions carefully before using Our Service.

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of some elements of these Terms and Conditions:

  • Country refers to: Alberta, Canada
  • Company (referred to as either “the Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to Online World Media, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada.
  • Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
  • Service refers to the Website.
  • Terms and Conditions (also referred as “Terms”) mean these Terms and Conditions that form the entire agreement between You and the Company regarding the use of the Service.
  • Third-party Social Media Service means any services or content (including data, information, products or services) provided by a third-party that may be displayed, included or made available by the Service.
  • Website refers to Safe Search Kids, accessible from https://www.safesearchkids.com/
  • You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Copyright Notice Regarding Our Content

You may view, download and print pages from our website for your own personal use, subject to the following restrictions. You may not republish material from this website in whole or in part online. (This will result in duplicate content and hurts our website listing in Google search results. As stated previously, links to the content on our website is permissible). You may not reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on our website for commercial purposes.

Printing content from our website for personal use or for educational purposes, such as in a classroom, is permitted as long as credit is given to Safe Search Kids with full stated url www.SafeSearchKids.com.

All articles on Safe Search Kids are tested and protected by Copyleaks to ensure that all content uploaded by us is 100% original and not copied or paraphrased from other articles.  We monitor when our written content may have been stolen or paraphrased, which is to say that an article of ours was re-written without the writer conducting their own personal research from a variety of sources to produce an original work. We also test articles at https://originality.ai/

Intellectual Property

The Service and its original content (excluding Content provided by You or other users), features and functionality are and will remain the exclusive property of the Company and its licensors.

The Service is protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of both the Country and foreign countries.

Our trademarks and trade dress may not be used in connection with any product or service without the prior written consent of the Company.

Learn about Intellectual Property, Patents, and Trademarks

Use of Images

The use of images directly from our website is prohibited as we have paid royalty fees for these images. Re-use of our images on your website would require third party websites to also pay the same fee for each image used. However, the use of our logos to link to us from your resources pages is allowed.
Kids Image Logo | Name Logo | Square Logo | Kids Square Logo

Feature images on our website are provided by depositphotos.

Articles

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.  These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Linking Policy

Linking to Safe Search Kids from another website is allowed and encouraged so long as the graphic/image or linking text used properly conveys the theme and purpose of our child friendly free search service. This includes schools who may place a link on any of their pages for students to use at will.   Links to a specific article on our website should properly match the content of the article, whether it be a generic title such as Safe Search Kids or specific text related to the topic of one of our articles or one of our search tools.

Framing of this website within another website is not allowed: Framing is when our website and search results appear within the frame on a different website domain. Links to this website should be placed on websites in one of two ways.

  1. Links can open in the same browser window (where users can click the ‘back’ button to return to your website)
  2. Links to our website can be set to open in a new window without closing our existing website content.

Links to this website may be directed to any page the user sees fit. Multiple users are allowed to access this website simultaneously and may be directed from any other website to browse articles or search from any search bar on the top or bottom of any page.

Legal Disclaimer

This website contains general information about online safety for kids and information related to internet safety and security in general. It may also contain articles that provide valuable information to kids, parents and teachers.  The articles on this website are not advice and should not be treated as such. Safe Search Kids makes no guarantee of the authenticity of expertise of third party websites that are referenced in relation to individual articles on this site. This website is meant to be used as a resource in conjunction with other research conducted by each individual on the topics contained within our article pages. Visit our home page for our latest posts.  To learn about our article categories or to search articles click here.

Protections: CCPA, CCPA, CalOPPA | GDRP

If you are browsing our website from the European Union or California in the United States, you will benefit from any mandatory provisions of the law of the country or state in which you are resident in.

GDPR refers to EU General Data Protection Regulation.

CCPA refers to the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (the “CPRA”).

CalOPPA is the “Do Not Track” policy as required by California Online Privacy Protection Act.

Protection for Children is how we protect the privacy of children under the age of 13 by not collecting their personal data.  We also abide by the California Privacy Rights for Minor Users under the age 18.

See how children and adults alike are protected by the above regulations in our Privacy Policy.

Intellectual Property Infringement

We respect the intellectual property rights of others. It is our policy to respond to any claim that content posted on our website infringes a copyright or other intellectual property infringement of any person.

If you are a copyright owner, or authorized on behalf of one, and you believe that the copyrighted work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement that is taking place through our website, you must submit your notice in writing via our contact form and include in Your notice a detailed description of the alleged infringement.

You may be held accountable for damages (including costs and attorneys’ fees) for misrepresenting that any content is infringing your copyright.

DMCA Notice and DMCA Procedure for Copyright Infringement Claims

You may submit a notification pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by providing our Copyright Agent with the following information in writing (see 17 U.S.C 512(c)(3) for further detail).  Initial contact with us can be simple note via our contact page, at which point we will respond to you via our company email for further correspondence.

An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright’s interest.

A description of the copyrighted work that You claim has been infringed, including the URL (i.e., web page address) of the location where the copyrighted work exists or a copy of the copyrighted work.

Identification of the URL or other specific location on the Service where the material that You claim is infringing is located.

Your address, telephone number, and email address.

A statement by You that You have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.

A statement by You, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in Your notice is accurate and that You are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf.

Upon receipt of a notification, we will take whatever action, in its sole discretion, it deems appropriate, including removal of the challenged content from the Service.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to third-party web sites or services that are not owned or controlled by the Company.

The Company has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party web sites or services. You further acknowledge and agree that the Company shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such web sites or services.

We strongly advise You to read the terms and conditions and privacy policies of any third-party web sites or services that You visit.

Limitation of Liability

Notwithstanding any damages that You might incur, the entire liability of the Company and any of its suppliers under any provision of this Terms and Your exclusive remedy for all of the foregoing shall be limited to the amount actually paid by You through the Service or 100 USD if You haven’t purchased anything through the Service.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall the Company or its suppliers be liable for any special, incidental, indirect, or consequential damages whatsoever (including, but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, loss of data or other information, for business interruption, for personal injury, loss of privacy arising out of or in any way related to the use of or inability to use the Service, third-party software and/or third-party hardware used with the Service, or otherwise in connection with any provision of this Terms), even if the Company or any supplier has been advised of the possibility of such damages and even if the remedy fails of its essential purpose.

Some states do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties or limitation of liability for incidental or consequential damages, which means that some of the above limitations may not apply. In these states, each party’s liability will be limited to the greatest extent permitted by law.

“AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” Disclaimer

The Service is provided to You “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” and with all faults and defects without warranty of any kind. To the maximum extent permitted under applicable law, the Company, on its own behalf and on behalf of its Affiliates and its and their respective licensors and service providers, expressly disclaims all warranties, whether express, implied, statutory or otherwise, with respect to the Service, including all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement, and warranties that may arise out of course of dealing, course of performance, usage or trade practice. Without limitation to the foregoing, the Company provides no warranty or undertaking, and makes no representation of any kind that the Service will meet Your requirements, achieve any intended results, be compatible or work with any other software, applications, systems or services, operate without interruption, meet any performance or reliability standards or be error free or that any errors or defects can or will be corrected.

Without limiting the foregoing, neither the Company nor any of the company’s provider makes any representation or warranty of any kind, express or implied: (i) as to the operation or availability of the Service, or the information, content, and materials or products included thereon; (ii) that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free; (iii) as to the accuracy, reliability, or currency of any information or content provided through the Service; or (iv) that the Service, its servers, the content, or e-mails sent from or on behalf of the Company are free of viruses, scripts, trojan horses, worms, malware, timebombs or other harmful components.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain types of warranties or limitations on applicable statutory rights of a consumer, so some or all of the above exclusions and limitations may not apply to You. But in such a case the exclusions and limitations set forth in this section shall be applied to the greatest extent enforceable under applicable law.

Governing Law

The laws of the Country, excluding its conflicts of law rules, shall govern this Terms and Your use of the Service. Your use of the Application may also be subject to other local, state, national, or international laws.

Disputes Resolution

If You have any concern or dispute about the Service, You agree to first try to resolve the dispute informally by contacting the Company.

For European Union (EU) Users

If You are a European Union consumer, you will benefit from any mandatory provisions of the law of the country in which You are resident.

United States Legal Compliance

You represent and warrant that (i) You are not located in a country that is subject to the United States government embargo, or that has been designated by the United States government as a “terrorist supporting” country, and (ii) You are not listed on any United States government list of prohibited or restricted parties.

Severability and Waiver

Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held to be unenforceable or invalid, such provision will be changed and interpreted to accomplish the objectives of such provision to the greatest extent possible under applicable law and the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect.

Waiver

Except as provided herein, the failure to exercise a right or to require performance of an obligation under these Terms shall not affect a party’s ability to exercise such right or require such performance at any time thereafter nor shall the waiver of a breach constitute a waiver of any subsequent breach.

Translation Interpretation

These Terms and Conditions may have been translated if We have made them available to You on our Service. You agree that the original English text shall prevail in the case of a dispute.

Changes to These Terms and Conditions

We reserve the right, at Our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms at any time. If a revision is material We will make reasonable efforts to provide at least 30 days’ notice prior to any new terms taking effect. What constitutes a material change will be determined at Our sole discretion.

By continuing to access or use Our Service after those revisions become effective, You agree to be bound by the revised terms. If You do not agree to the new terms, in whole or in part, please stop using the website and the Service.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about these Terms and Conditions, you can contact us by phone or email by visiting https://www.safesearchkids.com/contact/

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