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| iPrism keeps your Internet Access Policy current. Internet content is continually being retrieved by proprietary software tools, then reviewed and rated every day by St. Bernard Software's team of trained Web analysts. Updates are automatically downloaded to your iPrism unit each evening via subscription service from St. Bernard Software. The following are the categories currently supported by iPrism. |
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Copyright Infringement
This category refers to sites that offer media, software, MP3, DVD movies or any other copyrighted materials that are bootlegged or illegally available for purchase or download. This category is often blocked to protect iPrism owners from liability caused by the download and installation of bootlegged software. Note that this category does not refer to sites that are specific to computer hacking. |
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Computer Hacking
This category refers to any site promoting questionable or illegal use of equipment and/or software to crack
passwords, create viruses, gain access to other computers, and so on. This includes any site offering instruction on how to hack as well. This does not include legitimate security information sites that are focused on the prevention of hacking. |
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Intolerance/Extremism
This category refers to any site advocating militant activities or extremism. This includes groups with extreme political views and intolerance to individuals and/or groups based upon discriminating or racial distinction. |
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Questionable
This category refers to sites that are considered questionable in nature and may involve illegal activities, but do not fall under another, more specific "questionable" category. These are sites that could contain information about conspiracy, scams or any other suspected fraudulent behavior or activity. |
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Profanity
This category refers to any site that contains profanity of any kind that is NOT classified under the SEX category. These are sites that have language that would not be permitted in common social and situations. This may include swearing, blasphemy vulgarity or any dialog with malicious intent. It should be noted that this category also contain sites with language that implies profanity like some jokes, poems, letters, greeting cards, etc. |
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Tasteless
This category refers to sites that contain information on such subjects as mutilation, torture, horror, grotesque or any behavior that may be considered inappropriate for public audience. This will not include pornography, nudity, or sites dealing with sexuality, which have their own specific classifications. |
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Violence
This category refers to sites that contain visual representations and/or invitations to participate in violent acts. This may include war, crime, pranks, hazing, etc. A violent act may be considered any activity that uses physical force designed to injure another living being. |
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Weapons/Bombs
This category refers to any site promoting the use of weapons and/or bombs and the making of bombs. This does not include sites related to gun control (social issue). |
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Alt/New Age
This category refers to any site relating to the advocacy and/or information pertaining to the occult (i.e.. witchcraft, voodoo, black arts) astrology, ESP or similar forms of telepathy, fortune telling, out-of-body experience, magic, spirituality, UFOs and mind altering practices. Any sites relating to new age meditation practices or the study of new age principles are also included in this category. |
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Art/Culture
This category refers to any site relating to the arts or culture. Culture includes the beliefs, customs, practices, and social behavior of a particular nation or people. The arts include the creation of beautiful or thought-provoking works, for example, in painting, music, or writing. Sites falling into this category include virtual art galleries, museums, architecture, classical music, contemporary or fine art. |
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Cult
This category refers to any site that advocates or discusses information relating to the use of or membership in cults. Cults are defined as a group or movement exhibiting great or excessive devotion or dedication to some person, idea or thing and employing unethical manipulative or coercive techniques of persuasion and control designed to advance the goals of the groups leaders, to the detriment of members, their families or the community. |
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Government
This category refers to any site that is associated with governments and/or their militaries. A strong indication is a domain identifier of either "gov" or "mil". This includes the federal government, state government, county government, city government and any government agency. |
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News
This category refers to any site that is associated with online newspapers, headline news sites, new wiring services, personalize news services and mainstream publications. |
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Politics
This category refers to any site that is associated with political advocacy of any type or the opinions of the government. This includes any site promoting or containing information on any political party, pro or con. This also includes registered and officially recognized political parties. |
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Religion
This category refers to any site that pertains to mainstream religion, religious activities or participation. This includes information relating to any common religious organization. |
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Social Issues
This category refers to any site that that contains information regarding issues that are considered controversial by a society. Examples of these are site that provide information on abortion, euthanasia, gun control, drug legalization, suicide, immigration and civil/human rights and gay (or anti-gay) sites. |
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Family Issues
This category refers to any site that deals with issue specific to the family, including divorce, adoption, parenting, marriage, domestic violence, child abuse, father's rights, child custody, incest. Also included in this category are sites that offer counseling to the above examples. |
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Specialized Shopping
This category refers to any site that sells a specific item(s) or product(s). This rating is sometimes accompanied by another rating indicating the subject matter of the items sold. |
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Consumer Shopping
This category refers to any site that sells a wide range of products. These include Internet malls, online department stores, online retail stores and online downloadable product warehouses. |
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Corporate Marketing
This category refers to any site that offers corporate info and product information, but does not specifically sell their products online. |
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Finance
This category refers to any site that provides investment information, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, newsletter, tips, and firms that offers these services (including banks). |
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Job/Employment Search
This category refers to sites that provide jobs or employment services. Includes temp agencies, career resources and resume services. |
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Professional Services
This category refers to business related sites that include technical and professional services. Normally these businesses sell a service such as legal or consulting rather than a product. |
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Business to Business
This category refers to sites having items that are beneficial to normal business operation. |
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Online Auctions
This category refers to sites that involve participating in online auctions, where the site visitor can bid on various items. |
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Adult Themes
This category refers to sites that are adult in nature and are not defined in other rating categories. Sites that have adult themes are those that are associated with the following concepts: Adult oriented entertainment not defined in other categories that may include graphically explicit material not specifically relating to the Pornography category. These sites are usually intended for mature persons. |
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Lingerie/Bikini
This category refers to sites displaying or dedicated to bikini or Lingerie that could be considered for adult only. Sites about modeling would not be included in this area. |
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Nudity
This category refers to sites that provide images or representations of nudity. They may be in any artistic or non-artistic form like magazines, paintings, sculptures, etc. This category is assigned to those sites that display both partial and full nudity but the images are not pornographic in nature. |
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Pornography
This category covers anything relating to pornography, including mild depiction, soft pornography or hard-core pornography. Pornography pertains to writings, photographs, movies, etc., intended to arouse sexual excitement. Also, any site offering membership that may provide access to other pornographic sites will fit into this category. |
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Sexuality
This category contains those sites that provide information, images or implications of bondage, sadism, masochism, fetish, beating, body piercing or self-mutilation. |
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Alcohol/Tobacco
This category refers to sites that support the use of tobacco and alcohol products. They may be commercial sites, such as Philips Morris and Anheuser Busch, or they may be sites that support the use of alcohol and tobacco related products. |
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Drugs
This category refers to sites associated with the use, legalization or advocacy of illegal drugs and the illegal use of prescription drugs. |
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Health
This category refers to sites that claim to improve an individual's well being either medically, organically or through support. |
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Adult Sex Education
This category refers to sites that provide sexual education information to anyone who has graduated from high school. Topics in this category would include how to put on a condom, masturbation and other adult topics such as orgasm and ejaculation. |
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K-12 Sex Education
This category refers to sites that are associated with sex education of children. This includes sites that offer information about sex, AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, human reproduction, contraceptives, medical research or any other sexually oriented material used to educate. Information within these sites may be minimal in nature as in technical journals, dictionaries, encyclopedias or other reference materials. Sites may also display subtle images or graphics showing sexual organs. |
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Entertainment
This category refers to sites associated with passive activities – meaning visitors are looking for "sit back and entertain me" sites such as those dealing with movies, television, music, amusement parks, fan clubs, etc. Sites dealing with activities outlining the various ways of amusing people, especially by performing for them or something that is produced or performed for an audience. |
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Digital Music
This category refers to sites that offer and include legal MP3s, streaming music and video, etc. |
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Gambling
This category refers to any site that presents information about gambling for the purpose of advocating its practice or providing instruction on any gaming activity that involves gambling or provides on-line gambling. |
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Games
This category refers to any site that is associated with traditional board games, role-playing games and pursuits. This includes that promote game makers (Mattel), electronic games, video games, computer games or online games. This category includes both game hardware & software. Also included are tips, advice and cheat codes on playing computer/Internet based games and web sites hosting games and contests. |
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Hobbies/Interest
This category refers to any site associated with the non-competitive active pursuits or interests outside one's regular occupation or an activity engaged in for pleasure and relaxation during spare time. This would include pet lover sites, sewing, cooking/recipes, model building/making, woodcarving, stamp/coin collecting, mountain biking, hiking, etc. |
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Sports
This category refers to any site that contains information about sports or sports related activities. This includes sites that provide sports scores or games. These sites may also contain information about sporting events, camps, teams or outings. |
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Travel
This category refers to sites specializing in travel and travel-related information or activities. This includes travel destinations, reservation services, discount travel listings, leisure travel package listings, and special events in various cities. Also included are sightseeing guides, airlines and online flight booking agencies, accommodations, information and weather bureaus. Additional items such as chamber of commerce or non-government information pertaining to a given city or region can also be assigned this category. |
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Mature Humor
This category refers to any site that contains mature themes and humor that may not be suitable for children, but do not contain pornography or strong profanity. These sites may contain a limited amount of "PG-13" profanity without a profanity rating. |
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Anonymizer
This category refers to sites that allow the user to surf the net anonymously. It also refers to sites that allow the user to send anonymous emails. This also includes sites providing proxy bypass information or services. |
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Discussion Forums
This category refers to sites dedicates to Usenet, Usenet news, forums, newsgroups, online bulletin board system. |
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Translators
This category refers to any site that offers the service of translating a page, URL, or phrase into various different languages. |
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High Bandwidth
This category refers to sites that take up a significant amount of bandwidth. Examples: mp3s, videoconference, download sites for software/games, MPEG. |
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Email Host
Sites that provide email accounts, free or otherwise. |
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Online Chat
This category refers to any site that offers access to, software for or participation in any Internet chat forum. The notion of chat is associated with any online conversation involving at least two people that takes place in real time. |
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Shareware Download
This category refers to sites that specialize in the downloading of *legal* software. |
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Web Banners
This category refers to sites that provide services links/banners/ads for web sites. This could also include redirect services. |
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Web Host
This category refers to sites that offering web hosting services, free or otherwise. These sites would usually offer domain names and web spaces to host end-user web pages. |
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Web Search
This category refers to sites that specialize or offer a Web search engines. Sites containing links to other search engines or site-specific search functionality do not qualify for this rating. |
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Continuing Education/Colleges
This category refers to sites that continuing education/colleges offering formal course studies for adults. College homepages will also fall into this category. This category also includes distance education, degree programs for part time students, vocation and adult education. |
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History
This category refers to sites that offer a systematic, written and methodical record of important events which concern a community of people, usually so arranged as to show the connection of causes and effects, to give an analysis of motive and action, etc. |
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K-12
This category refers to sites with the identifier of "K12" (Kindergarten through 12th grade) in the URL. Also included in this category are any sites dealing with the education of children. |
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Reference Sites
This category refers to site specifically dedicated to providing a research method on one or more subject matters. |
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Liberal Arts
This category refers to sites that deal with general study of: English, Philosophy, Literature, Economics, Languages, Physiology, Social and Environmental Studies, Visual and Performing Arts. |
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Science/Tech
This category refers to sites that relate specifically to education in Science and Technology. Also included in this category are sites relating to education with emphasis on computers, astronomy, programming, physics, etc. |
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Safe Search Engine
This category refers to any search site that is specifically targeted toward families and children. Safe search engines will not allow the child or family member to search for pornography. |
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Phishing
Deceptive websites that trick end-users into revealing personal data such as credit card numbers, account usernames and passwords, social security numbers, etc. These websites pretend to be those of common, well-known sites such as banks and credit card companies. |
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Spyware/Adware
Websites that are known to distribute contain code that displays unwanted advertisements or gathers information about the user without the users knowledge. This information is oftentimes relayed to advertisers or other 3rd parties. |
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Malware
Websites that are known to contain harmful code that may modify a users system without the users knowledge. |
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