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Safety Settings » Content

The “Filter search engine results” check box will compare Internet searches against your content restrictions and remove questionable results; it will also block popular image searching sites. If you activate “Block pages containing profanity,” BumperCar will check Web pages against a list of profane words and block any that contain one or more matching words. You can add your own words to the list by clicking the “Edit Profanity...” button; simply click the plus button and enter the new word, or highlight a word and click the minus button to remove it. Click “Done” when you’re finished. A note on formatting -- you’ll notice some curse words have blank spaces added before or after the word. This is an important tool because it limits the profanity filter from blocking all words that might contain those same letters. For example, adding spaces to both ends of a curse word will tell BumperCar to just block the word itself, not the sequence of letters which might appear inside larger words, such as "Association” and “Shitaki” mushroom. Without these spaces, "Association” and “Shitaki” would also be blocked.

The third safety setting in the Content pane is the “Prevent use of personal data” box. Once checked, it restricts anything in the fields below from being entered into online forms. For example, you can list names (first and last should be listed separately), addresses, credit card numbers, or anything else you don’t want your kids to transmit on the Web. If they enter any of the data in an online form, it will be automatically deleted upon submission. Click the plus button to add words or highlight words and click the minus button to remove them.