Online safety

Accessing illegal material

• Illegal material can be easy to find on the internet and it can sometimes be difficult to avoid. Illegal material is illegal for a reason – it is deemed inappropriate and can be damaging to you and people around you. Examples of illegal materials include:

  • Gambling websites
    
  • Adult websites including pornography
    
  • Websites that promote negative actions such as self-harm or eating disorders.
    

  
  When you search for anything on the internet, it creates a 'profile' of you, meaning that all of the things that you search for are saved in a database so people who can access that database know all about your preferences, interests and search history.

  The easiest way to avoid these sites is not to search for them. Sometimes they can open up automatically on your computer. If this happens, then close them immediately.

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