Comprehensive parental controls and monitoring to manage and protect your children’s online lives. Available to all, not required to be a STC subscriber.
Bark
Parental Control App for $10/month
Monitor Content
Get alerts for issues like bullying, predators, sexual content, and more.
Manage Screen Time
Create custom daily screen time schedules for your child’s device.
Filter Websites
Block access to specific websites or even whole categories.
Set Location Alerts
Get notified when your kid arrives at or leaves a set location.
Why Bark?
Raising kids in the digital age isn’t easy. With so many dangers lurking online, it’s important to take steps to protect your children. Parental controls can help you do just that. By monitoring your child’s online activity, you can be alerted to any red flags – such as bullying, depression, violence, eating disorders, or predators.
With Bark from Sharon Telephone Company, you can take action to keep your child safe. Parental controls can give you peace of mind and help you create a safer, healthier environment for your family and community.
The Most Coverage of Any Monitoring Tool
Bark Premium
FEATURES
Manage screen time
Block websites or apps
Track location and get location alerts
Monitor texts, email, YouTube, and 30+ apps and platforms
Get alerts for issues like cyberbullying, online predators, suicidal ideation, and more
Receive Alerts
Receive parental monitoring alerts for worrisome content with tips on how to address the issues with advice from child psychologists.
Full Support from STC
As a Bark subscriber from STC, you are fully supported. Receive personalized support from STC on the phone, email, or in person. Plus, receive customer support from Bark’s team of experts.
Unlimited Coverage
A single Bark subscription covers every child and device in your family, with no limit on accounts, devices, or kids.
Content Monitoring
How It Works
Bark monitors texts, email, YouTube, and 30+ apps and social media platforms for signs of issues. You can get email and text alerts when Box detects potential issues so you can talk to your child and make sure everything is OK.
Connect
Connect to 30+ platforms to monitor text messages, emails, and social activity to signs of harmful interactions and content.
Detect
Bark runs quietly in the background in search of issues that might indicate that something is wrong in your child’s online world.
Alert
Get automatic alerts via email and text when potential risks are detected, so you don’t have to comb through every post and text.
Communicate
Now that you know, start a conversation with your kids. Use the opportunity to have difficult conversations around what they’re experiencing online.
Location Sharing
Keep track of your kid on-the-go.
Bark’s check-ins and location alerts make that easy, whether your high schooler just got their first job or your tween is biking to their friend’s house!
Location Sharing
Keep track of your kid on-the-go.
Bark’s check-ins and location alerts make that easy, whether your high schooler just got their first job or your tween is biking to their friend’s house!
Location Alerts
How It Works
Family location sharing app will automatically alert you when they arrive at or leave a location you’re set! No matter what you want to use Bark’s location sharing features for, you can rest assured that you’ll be kept in the loop.
Endless Location Sharing Uses
Just a few ways you can use location sharing to have peace of mind.
Make sure your kid gets to school safely
Get alert if your teen sneaks out of the house at night
Collaborate with a co-parent to help keep your kid safe
Rest assured that your child made it to their BFF’s house on their skateboard
And so much more!
Endless Location Sharing Uses
Just a few ways you can use location sharing to have peace of mind.
Make sure your kid gets to school safely
Get alert if your teen sneaks out of the house at night
Collaborate with a co-parent to help keep your kid safe
Rest assured that your child made it to their BFF’s house on their skateboard
And so much more!
Extra Protection With Check-Ins
Sometimes, you just need to know your kid’s exact location.
For those situations, request a check-in and our family location sharing dashboard will show you the address of where they’re currently located!
Extra Protection With Check-Ins
Sometimes, you just need to know your kid’s exact location.
For those situations, request a check-in and our family location sharing dashboard will show you the address of where they’re currently located!
Learn More About the Bark Service
On the go. In the know.
Call 319.679.2211 for more information!
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