How to Better Interpret and Understand the Accountability Report
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Thank you for taking time to be an Accountability Partner for a Covenant Eyes user. The purpose of this document is to help you understand how to use the features on the Covenant Eyes Accountability Reports.
Tips for using Accountability Report
High-scoring sites appear occasionally on just about everybody's Accountability Report. Be careful you do not assume the worst. Here are some simple steps and reminders to follow:
- Look at the website address on the Accountability Report.
- If you see anything questionable about the address, look at the number of hits on that website.
- If you see more than one hit on that website, you may want to ask the Covenant Eyes user about the activity.
Here are some suggested questions to ask the Covenant Eyes user if you see high-scoring websites on their Accountability Report. When speaking to the Covenant Eyes user, go in believing the best about their motivations or intentions.
- Ask your friend what the site had on it?
- Did you view pornography on this site?
- If so, how long were you on this site?
- Did you tell me the truth about what is on your report?
After speaking with Covenant Eyes user, you still have concerns, use the Accountability Report and Detailed Browsing Log to analyze the browsing activity further.
- Look at the Accountability Report again.
- Make note of the high-scoring website—date and time included.
- View the Detailed Browsing Log.
- Once at the Detailed Browsing Log, locate the website in question, using the date and time-stamp from the accountability report. This will allow you to determine more accurately the motivation of your friend.
If there is a pattern of highly objectionable sites, we always recommend that the user be confronted in love and (unless it is obvious that pornography has been viewed for a long time) given the benefit of the doubt. In many cases there really is a simple explanation for the questionable scores. Nevertheless someone involved in pornography will have numerous visits to multiple high-scoring websites. Almost always, these sites have blatantly pornographic or suspicious names.
Features of the Accountability Reports
Reporting Period: The time frame the report reflects for the Internet activity of a specific username.
Mature or Objectionable Content: The report has a section near the top that reports the Internet activity suggesting mature or objectionable content for the reporting period.
Somewhat Mature or Objectionable Content: The Accountability Report has a section near the top that reports the Internet activity suggesting somewhat mature or questionable content for the reporting period.
Date of Hit(s) on Site: This is only given for the high-scoring sites (scores of 10 or greater).
Search Strings and Detailed Web Addresses: For the high-scoring sites, the report may reveal the full length of the web address for a particular website that was visited.
Notes for Some High-Scoring Websites: For high-scoring websites, there may be a note that describes the reason for Covenant Eyes assigning a high score.
Scores for Sites/Webpages: Each webpage/website is given a score on the report—even if the content is not objectionable or mature. Scores can range from 0 to greater than 100.
Hits: A "hit" means that an item was downloaded to your computer from a website. For example, google.com could record 26 hits at one time on your Accountability Report, this means that your browser downloaded 26 items from google.com. The hits consist of images, text or files of another kind. These hits could also take you to another webpage. Every thing inside of a website that is scored. Example: Google searches do not register each link. The Google search and search words are scored.
Type of URL Address: This will tell you if the reported URL address is http (or regular website), ftp, or some other kind of web protocol.
Break Down of Internet Activity: Internet activity is summarized by the day and by the web page or website visited.
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Last updated: 2007-12-04