Real Time Monitoring
ChatAlert! analyses your children's chat, instant messaging and web activities and alerts you of potential dangers in real time, and allows you to address threats immediately (not days after they have occurred).

Protection
ChatAlert! monitors all forms of HTML and Java chat rooms as well as every major Instant Messenger chat application. It also monitors the text content on web sites your children visit.

Anywhere, Anytime*
ChatAlert! sends you alerts by email to your computer and / or SMS text message to you mobile phone, and allows you to respond simply by replying to the email or SMS message.

Using email and SMS means you can help protect your children from any location you can send and receive SMS text messages or emails - at any time of the day.

Total Control
By replying to an alert with A, B or C, you are able to Alert the child on-screen, Break the chat conversation (or close their web browser) or Close down their computer - all from any remote location that you can send and receive email or SMS text messages.

Automatic Actions
If you can not respond to a potential threat, ChatAlert! has an internal automated process that can be set to automatically perform A, B, or C if you don't respond within a period defined by you - helping you provide real protection even when you're not available to respond. See screenshots for more information.

Always on
Once installed, ChatAlert! can not be removed or changed by any user other than the computer administrator or the original application installer. This also ensures that your child can not turn off ChatAlert!’s monitoring capabilities.If they attempt to close it through task manager, ChatAlert! will automatically restart.

ChatAlert! can be turned off by the parent at anytime (for example - when they are using the computer), simply by double clicking the smiley face in the task bar, entering their password and pressing the on button on the Control Center screen.

Threat Levels
ChatAlert!’s monitoring can be customised to your personal preferences. If you feel that your children are internet savvy you can chose to decrease the sensitivity of ChatAlert!, and reduce the number of alerts.

If your children are still learning about the online dangers, you can protect them just as easily by increasing the sensitivity and you will be notified of every innuendo in any conversation or web site activity that takes place. See screenshots for more information.

Threat Types
ChatAlert! includes threat type options that allow you to select what forms of chat protection will be used. These include affection, drugs, meeting, family, sex, stalking, bullying and swearing. By default all are active, but you can easily deselect any through the administration screen.See screenshots for more information.

Chat Dictionaries
The ChatAlert! dictionaries help the software understand chat room lingo, abbreviations and slang. It uses the dictionaries to recognise, analyse and interpret thousands of net-slang phrases (WUF = Where are yoU From, ASL = Age, Sex, Location, POS = Parent Over Shoulder) to make it’s profanity and threat analysis. ChatAlert! includes 12 months free dictionary updates.

Customisable warnings
ChatAlert! allows you to create customised or personalised on-screen (and spoken) warnings to your children. Personalising the messages for alert notification and on-screen warnings adds impact to the message. See screenshots for more information.

Web site inclusions
If there is a particular web site (for example, a game, chat, or adult site) that you want to be notified of whenever your child visits, you can add them to the Include panel in the Control Center.

Alternatively, if you want to allow particular sites that may trigger an alert (eg. a research or news site that includes potentially dangerous phrases and words), you can easily add them to the Exclude panel in the Control Center. See screenshots for more information.

Onscreen Visual Guide
ChatAlert! uses a smiley face that resides in the task bar (near the clock) to provide your child with a visual status of their chat session that remains smiling as long as the conversation remains safe.

As soon as their activities become suspicious or dangerous the face will turn red, providing your child with an immediate on screen visual guide. If their activities result in an alert being sent, an animated character appears on the screen advising them.

By informing the child of their breach, ChatAlert! helps educate your children about what is acceptable, and what is not in accordance with the levels you have selected. See screenshots for more information.

Premium notification*
ChatAlert! uses a premium SMS service that ensures your alerts and responses are transferred as fast as possible. Premium services give you piece of mind that alerts are sent immediately as suspicious activity happens - before its too late.

Easy set up and automatic updates
ChatAlert! uses a simple step-by-step process that guides even the most novice computer user through the installation process, and allows them to test their alerts as they go.

ChatAlert! also features an automatic update (requires active internet connection), so you can be sure that you always have the latest version and the most up-to-date dictionaries.

Dictionary updates
ChatAlert! includes one year of free product and dictionary updates to ensure you are always operating with the latest protection technology.

* Note. Premium SMS services are usually charged at a rate above standard SMS text rates. SMS text messaging availability is reliant on your telco service provider. SMS text service requires active mobile phone with SMS text capabilities within range of your telco service provider. Your children's computer must be connected to the internet for ChatAlert! to work. A current email account is needed for email notification to work. Email notifications are reliant on your email providers to be delivered in a timely manner.