JUNIOR INTERNET ACCESS
Websense Internet Filtering Categories
You can check what types of sites junior members are allowed to access and what ones they are not allowed access to.
Allowed-YES
BUSINESS & ECONOMY
Sites sponsored by or devoted to business firms, business associations, industry groups, or business in general.
Financial Data and Services - Sites that offer news and quotations on stocks, bonds, and other investment vehicles, investment advice, but not online trading. Includes banks, credit unions, credit cards, and insurance.
DRUGS - Parent category
Prescribed Medications - Sites that provide information about approved drugs and their medical use.
Supplements and Unregulated Compounds - Sites that provide information about or promote the sale or use of chemicals not regulated by the FDA (such as naturally occurring compounds).
EDUCATION
Cultural Institutions - Sites sponsored by museums, galleries, theatres (but not movie theatres), libraries, and similar institutions; also, sites whose purpose is the display of artworks.
Educational Institutions - Sites sponsored by schools and other educational facilities by non-academic research institutions, or that relate to educational events and activities.
Educational Materials - Sites that provide information about or that sell or provide curriculum materials or direct instruction; also, learned journals and similar publications.
Reference Materials - Sites that offer reference-shelf content such as atlases, dictionaries, encyclopaedias, formularies, white and yellow pages, and public statistical data.
ENTERTAINMENT
Sites that provide information about or promote motion picture, non-news radio and television, music, books, humour, and magazines.
MP3 - Sites that support downloading or MP3 or other sound files or that serve as directories of such sites.
GAMES
Sites that provide information about or promote electronic games, video games, computer games, role-playing games, or online games. Includes sweepstakes and give-aways.
GOVERNMENT
Sites sponsored by branches, bureaus, or agencies of any level of government, except for the armed forces.
Military - Sites sponsored by branches or agencies of the armed services.
Political Organisations - Sites sponsored by or providing information about political parties and interest groups focused on elections or legislation.
HEALTH
Sites that provide information or advice on personal health or medical services, procedures, or devices, but not drugs. Includes self-help groups.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Search engines and Portals - Sites that support searching the Web, news groups, or indices or directories thereof.
URL Translation Sites - Sites that offer; online translation of URLs. These sites access the URL to be translated in a way that bypasses the proxy server, potentiality allowing unauthorised access.
Web Hosting - Sites of organisations that provide hosting services, or top-level domain pages of Web communities.
INTERNET COMMUNICATION - Parent category
Web Chat - Sites that host Web chat services or that support or provide information about chat via HTTP or IRC. Depends on category selected by parents
Web-based Email - Sites that host Web-based email. Depends on category selected by parents
JOB SEARCH
Sites that offer information about or support the seeking of employment or employees.
MISCELLANEOUS
Dynamic Content -URLs that are generated dynamically by a Web server.
Images (Media) - URLs ending with image filenames.
NEWS & MEDIA
Sites that offer current news and opinion, including those sponsored by newspapers, general circulation magazines, or other media
Alternative Journals - Online equivalents to supermarket tabloids and other fringe publications.
RELIGION
Non-Traditional Religions & Occult & Folklore - Sites that provide information about or promote religions not specified in Traditional Religions or other unconventional cultic, or folkloric beliefs and practices.
Traditional Religions - Sites that provide information about or promote Buddhism, Bahai, Christianity, Christian Science, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Mormonism, Shinto, and Sikhism, as well as atheism.
SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS
Professional & Worker Organisations - Sites sponsored by or that support or offer information about organisations devoted to professional advancement or workers interests.
Service & Philanthropic Organisations - Sites sponsored by or that support or offer information about organisations devoted to doing good as their primary activity.
Social & Affiliation Organisations - Sites sponsored by or that support or offer information about organisations devoted chiefly to socialising or common interests other than philanthropy or professional advancement.
SOCIETY & LIFESTYLES
Sites that provide information about matters of daily life.
Hobbies - Sites that provide information about or promote private and largely sedentary pastimes, but not electronic, video, or online games.
Personal Web Sites - Sites published and maintained by individuals for their personal self-expression and ends.
Restaurants and Dining - Sites that list, review, advertise, or promote food, dining, or catering services.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Sites devoted to a current event.
SPORTS
Sites that provide information about or promote sports, active games and recreation.
Sport Hunting and Gun Clubs - Sites that provide information about or directories of gun clubs and similar groups, including war-game and paintball facilities.
TRAVEL
Sites that provide information about or promote travel-related services and destinations.
USER-DEFINED
User-defined category
Added allowed websites - Scottish Borders website – library catalogue.
VEHICLES
Sites that provide information about or promote vehicles, including those that support online purchase of vehicles or parts.
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Not Allowed
ABORTION - Sites with neutral or balanced presentation of the issue
- Pro-Choice - Sites that provide information about or are sponsored by organisations that support legal abortion or that offer support
or encouragement to those seeking the procedure.
Pro-Life - Sites that provide information about or are sponsored by organisations that oppose legal abortion or that seek increased restriction of abortion.
ADULT MATERIAL
Adult Content - Sites that display full or partial nudity in a sexual context, but not sexual activity; erotica; sexual paraphernalia; sex-oriented business as clubs, night clubs, escort services; and sites supporting online purchase of such goods and services.
Lingerie and Swimsuit - Sites that offer images of models in suggestive but not lewd costume, with semi nudity permitted. Includes classic ‘cheese-cake’, calendar, and pinup art and photography. Includes also sites offering lingerie or swimwear for sale.
Nudity - Sites that offer depictions of nude or semi nude human forms, singly or in groups, not overtly sexual in intent or effect.
Sex - Sites that depict or graphically describe sexual acts or activity, including exhibitionism; also sites offering direct links to such sites.
Sex Education - Sites that offer information about sex and sexuality, with no pornographic intent.
ADVOCACY GROUPS
sites that promote change or reform in public policy, public opinion, social practice, economic activities and relationships.
DRUGS
Abused Drugs - Sites that promote or provide information about the use of prohibited drugs, except marijuana, or the abuse or unsanctioned use of controlled or regulated drugs; also, paraphernalia associated with such use or abuse.
Marijuana - Sites that provide information about or promote the cultivation, preparation or use of marijuana.
GAMBLING
Sites that provide information about or promote gambling or support online gambling, involving a risk of losing money.
ILLEGAL OR QUESTIONABLE
Sites that provide instruction in or promote non-violent crime or unethical or dishonest behaviour or the avoidance of prosecution therefore.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Sites sponsored by or providing information about computers, software, the Internet, and related business firms, including sites supporting the sale of hardware, software, peripherals, and services.
Computer Security - Sites that provide information about or free downloadable tools for computer security.
Hacking - Sites that provide information about or promote illegal or questionable access to or use of computer or communication equipment, software, or databases.
Proxy Avoidance - Sites that provide information about how to bypass proxy server, features or to gain access to URLs in any way that bypasses the proxy server.
MILITANCY & EXTREMIST
Sites that offer information about or promote, or are sponsored by groups advocating antigovernment beliefs or action.
MISCELLANEOUS
Content Delivery Networks - Commercial hosts that deliver content to subscribing Web sites.
File Download Servers - Web servers whose primary function is to deliver files for download.
Image Servers - Web servers whose primary function is to delivery images.
Network Errors - URLs with hosts that do not resolve to IP addresses.
Private IP Addresses - IP addresses defined in RFC 1918, ‘address allocation for Private Intranets.’
Uncategorized - Sites not categorized in the EIM Database (can be checked and categorized by IT Staff).
RACISM & HATE
Sites that promote the identification of racial groups, the denigration or subjection of groups, or the superiority of any group.
SHOPPING
Sites that support the online puchase of consumer goods and services.
Internet Auctions - Sites that support the offering and purchasing of goods between individuals.
Real Estate - Sites that provide information about renting, buying, selling, or financing residential real estate.
SOCIETY & LIFESTYLES
Sites that provide information about matters of daily life.
Alcohol & Tobacco - Sites that provide information about, promote, or support the sale of alcoholic beverages or tobacco products or associated paraphernalia.
Gay or Lesbian or Bisexual Interest - Sites that provide information about or cater to gay, lesbian, or bisexual lifestyles, including those that support online shopping, but excluding those that are sexually or issue-oriented.
Personals and Dating - Sites that assist users in establishing interpersonal relationships, excluding those intended to arrange for sexual encounters and excluding those of exclusively gay or lesbian or bisexual interest.
TASTELESS
Sites with content that is gratuitously offensive or shocking.
VIOLENCE
Sites that feature or promote violence or bodily harm.
WEAPONS
Sites that provide information about, promote, or support the sale of weapons and related items.
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