PERSONAL INFORMATION Never tell a stranger your home or school address or where you will be at a given time on a given day

on Beware of passing on your e-mail address, mobile or home phone number!

PURCHASES  Never make a purchase on e-bay or any other e-sales site or go through the motions of doing so without the knowledge of the cardholder. approval and assistance of an adult.   

NAMES AND ADDRESSES  Never use or pass these on to others without direct permission.  Do not use anyone else’s identity let alone their CREDIT CARD!

OTHER GUY’S KIT Never use a lap-top or PC belonging to anyone else without their  permission.  Important work in progress may need to be made secure.

‘BORROWING’ SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS Is the software ‘open source’ or does it have a multiple user licence which you can share? Otherwise copying is illegal.

CHURCH, SCHOOL OR DRAMA GROUP Licenses to perform plays or music do not cover recordings for sale even to parents, participants or friends.  

BROADCAST MATERIAL A PC or lap-top that can receive TV & Radio is NOT exempt from the Licence Fee unless you are part of a bona fide single household.

OPEN SOURCE PROGRAMS  So called ‘free’ trials may be set up to press you into a buy, they do not always ‘wipe clean’ fire reminders like ‘forever’.

E-MAIL ATTACHMENTS A popular place for hackers to conceal a virus. Never open or pass on an attachment unless it is from a source you trust implicitly

IDENTITY THEFT Banks, Credit Card providers and genuine traders will never ask you for your password or display your account number in full.  Hackers may!!!!   

PASSWORDS Keep secret! Poor memory?  Write down the first and last character or substitute a different word that will remind you and only you what it is.

DODGY MESSAGES OR WEB-SITES. Never give in to the temptation to browse sites of a sexual, violent or anti-social nature. Casual curiosity grows into obsession.

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COPYRIGHT  Applying to almost all published media, it is generally illegal to copy, record or distribute music, plays or written work not entirely your own.  

CONTENT Any information or ‘copy’ that might otherwise be ignored by the recipient for the above reason can be pasted into the body of the e-mail.