Instructions For Parent Approval
A Safe & Fun Environment.
At Club Cahootie, we realize the issues you face regarding your children’s online safety…perhaps they want their own email account, or they want a Facebook page or they’d like to chat with online friends, post videos or write blogs. But as we have all experienced and are aware, there are many threats and dangers to kids online, especially in open social networking and gaming sites.
Well, that’s why we created Club Cahootie. We felt we could give kids a safe and secure social play space to come together and communicate digitally with real friends after school or practice or on the weekends. But at the same time, we also felt we could create a social web site that parents feel confident is protecting their child's privacy and safety.
Through our RealWorld Friends™ system, Club Cahootie helps kids connect to their real friends through an invitation (with a secret code) that they can give to friends in a printed format or digitally though email. Unlike other social networking sites, kids on Club Cahootie cannot be searched, seen or contacted by strangers whatsoever. Therefore a network of real friends is created. In addition, each time a RealWorld Friend invitation is created or accepted the parent is notified. This process helps protect everyone's privacy and safety without hindering the fun for the user.
Take a sneek peak at the features!
Follow these simple steps to approve.
Step One: Check your email.
You should have received an email from Club Cahootie titled “Child Registration Notice for Club Cahootie”, when your child signed up which contains a link for you to click on that will lead you through the approval process. Please check your spam folder!. If you did not recieve or cannot find this email, please go here.
Step Two: Click link in your email.
Your email contains a unique link that will take you to the Parent Approval page where you (the parent) will have the choice to allow full access or monitored access to all of Club Cahooties features. Until you approve your child’s account, they will only have access to play games, watch Glee shows and build avatars. Upon your consent, your child will get full access to all the cool things on Club Cahootie like being connected to your friends, posting status, blogging, photo uploads in a SAFE and FUN environment. Read more below about our COPPA complient RealWorld Friends™ system and the lengths we have gone to to ensure your kids safety.
Step Three: Approve or Monitor.
You have two choices as the parent.
(1) Simply Approve your child’s account. You will still receive an email each time your child adds a new friend and you can always form a new account later if you decide you would rather monitor your child’s Club Cahootie activities more closely. IF YOU SELECT THIS METHOD, YOU ARE DONE!
(2) Create a Parent Account and Monitor your child’s account. If you choose this approval method, you will be asked to create your own account where you can set specific permissions as you see fit and log in any time to monitor your child’s Club Cahootie account. IF YOU SELECT THIS METHOD, PROCEED TO STEP FOUR.
Step Four: Set Permissions.
Upon creating a Parent Account to Monitor your child’s account, you will be directed to a screen where you will be able to set your child’s permissions. EASY AS THAT!
The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) requires parental consent as relates to the online collection of personal information from children under 13 years of age. At Club Cahootie, we do not require nor do we request personal information from kids in order to use or enjoy our site. However, many of the features (e.g., chat, blog, mail, digital uploads) on Club Cahootie were designed to allow kids to enter free form text and/or upload personalized content as they customize their experience.
Club Cahootie does not share any content that users upload to our site with third parties. Additionally, because of our RealWorld™ Friends System (read more about on our Parents page), the personal information your child may upload at Club Cahootie in the form of free form text or digital media resides in a closed social network of real world friends with whom they have exchanged printed and proprietary friendship invitation codes and of whom you as parents have been notified as friends of your child's at Club Cahootie.
