Your Safe Harbor — Child-Safe Browsing

Free, local-first parental controls for Chrome: category blocking, parent rules, schedules, SafeSearch, and a safety guide.

Your Safe Harbor — calm, honest parental controls for Chrome. On a digital ocean. Give your child a safer place to browse — without spyware, without secrecy, and without pretending to do more than it really can. Your Safe Harbor sets up in a couple of minutes with a friendly wizard, then quietly filters Chrome in your child's profile while staying completely honest with you about what it protects and what still needs your attention. It's free. It's local-first — nothing ever leaves your device. And it's designed to support an open conversation with your child, not to spy on them. WHY PARENTS CHOOSE YOUR SAFE HARBOR • Honest by design. Most "parental control" tools imply they make a device totally safe. They don't, and neither do we. Your Safe Harbor tells you plainly what it covers (Chrome, in this profile) and walks you through the stronger layers — so you're never lulled into a false sense of security. • Set up in minutes. A simple five-question wizard asks your child's age and how the browser is used, then recommends sensible settings you can confirm or adjust. No manuals, no jargon. • Not hidden from your child. Good online safety starts with talking, not hiding. Your Safe Harbor is visible and explainable, so you can use it as a starting point for that conversation. • Private. No accounts, no cloud, no tracking, no telemetry. Everything stays on your device. WHAT IT DOES • Category safety packs — Turn on simple switches to block unsafe categories: adult content, malware and scams, proxy and bypass tools, social media, games, video and streaming, AI chatbots, shopping, and file sharing. Choose only the ones that fit your family. • Parent rules — Keep your own always-allowed and always-blocked lists. Your choices override the category packs, so a school site is never caught by accident, and a site you don't want is always blocked. • Approved-sites-only mode — For the youngest kids, block everything except the websites you specifically approve. • A calm block page — When a site is paused, your child sees a friendly, age-appropriate page that explains why — never a scary error, and never instructions on how to get around it. • Ask a parent — From the block page, your child can request access. Enter your PIN and approve the site for 15 minutes, an hour, the day, or always — or simply keep it blocked. Temporary approvals expire on their own. • Schedules — Set bedtime, school-hours, homework, or custom windows that pause browsing during those times. Times use your device's local clock, and overnight windows just work. • Search safety — Best-effort SafeSearch for Google, Bing, and YouTube, an option to allow only approved search engines, and an option to block image search. • Download guardrails — Automatically cancel risky download types like programs and scripts (on by default), with archives as an optional extra. • PIN-protected — All settings sit behind a parent PIN, which is stored only as a secured cryptographic hash — never as the digits themselves. THE GET SAFE GUIDE — YOUR NEXT STEPS A browser extension is one layer, and it can't do everything. That's why Your Safe Harbor includes a Get Safe tab with clear, step-by-step guides to the protections that live outside the browser: • A family-safe DNS on your router, to cover the long tail of unsafe sites across every device on your network. • Google Family Link, which turns off incognito for a supervised child account and lets you manage sites and approvals. • Disabling guest browsing and extra profiles, to close common bypass routes. • Managed Chrome, the only way to make protections truly hard to remove. You get an honest "what's protected / what still needs setup" picture — not a fake score that pretends the whole device is locked down. HONEST LIMITS (THE PART OTHER TOOLS LEAVE OUT) • It protects Chrome in one profile. It does not cover other browsers, other profiles, or apps. • A local PIN deters casual bypass, but a determined child with an unlocked device can still get around it. For stronger control, follow the Get Safe steps (DNS, supervised account, or managed Chrome). • The built-in lists catch well-known sites; family-safe DNS handles the much larger long tail. Taking this first step matters. From here, the Get Safe tab shows you exactly how to add the stronger layers at your own pace. PRIVACY Your Safe Harbor does not collect, transmit, sell, or share any personal information. There is no account and no server. Your settings, your rules, and a small on-device log of recently paused sites stay on your device, and you can clear that log anytime. The extension filters network requests locally and never reads or sends the contents of the pages you visit. Full Privacy policy here: https://e1ctech.com/your-safe-harbor/privacy WHO IT'S FOR Parents and guardians who want a calm, no-nonsense way to add guardrails to a child's Chrome browsing — and who'd rather have an honest tool that points them toward real protection than a flashy one that overpromises. FREE, AND MADE WITH CARE Your Safe Harbor was created by Kris Takahashi and shared with the world for free. If it helps your family, there's an optional "Buy Kris a coffee" link in the dashboard — entirely voluntary, and never shown to your child. Install Your Safe Harbor, take a few minutes with the setup wizard, and give your family a calmer harbor on a digital ocean.