Google Good to Know A guide to staying safe and secure online - Manual (Page 9)

Family safety tools
We build tools and controls into our products that help you manage your
online experience.
Google SafeSearch and Lock
SafeSearch is designed to screen sites that
contain sexually explicit content and remove
them from your search results. While no filter
is 100% accurate, SafeSearch helps you avoid
content you may prefer not to see or would
rather your children did not stumble across.
If you’re worried about others changing
SafeSearch settings without your knowledge,
you can protect it with a password using
SafeSearch Lock. Once locked, the Google
search results page will be visibly different
to indicate that SafeSearch is locked.
To enable SafeSearch, visit the Search Preferences page:
www.google.com/preferences
YouTube sharing controls
Sometimes you might just want to keep your family videos to yourself or only
share them with select people. You can do so on YouTube by choosing either
unlisted or private when you upload your video.
YouTube Safety Mode and Lock
Safety Mode gives users the option to choose not to see mature content that
they may find find offensive, even though it’s not against our Community
Guidelines. When you opt in to Safety Mode, videos with mature content
or that have been age restricted will not show up in video search.
To access and turn on Safety Mode, click Safety Mode at the bottom of every
page to open the preference setting.
Content filtering on Android
Google Play requires developers to label their applications according to
the Google Play ratings system, which consists of four levels: Everyone, low
maturity, medium maturity, or high maturity. Using a PIN code, users can lock
a setting to filter apps on their devices so that only apps deemed appropriate
for use can be displayed and downloaded.
Google+
A number of different features provide you with transparency and choice
over who can see what type of information you post or share, including circles
which allow you to select exactly who sees your posts, notification settings
which allow you to specify who can contact you, and visibility settings allowing
you to make your profile private.
Blogger
On Blogger, your blog is public by default, and can be read by anyone on the
internet. If you’d like to keep it private, you can limit the viewers of your blog
to only people you choose to invite.