What is Bark Foundations?
When your child's school purchases Bark Foundations, you will receive an email invitation about setting up your free Foundations account. Foundations accounts are able to monitor 15+ of your children’s favorite apps and social media platforms to help keep them safe online and in real life.
When set up, we can alert you about issues like bullying, sexual predators, suicidal ideation, threats of violence, depression, and more on many of your child's email and social media accounts. We use machine learning and advanced statistical techniques to analyze context (not just keywords) to detect potential problems.
What Bark Foundations Monitors:
Social Media Accounts
Facebook posts on your child’s timeline (text and images)
Tweets (text and images)
Replies (text and images)
Direct messages
YouTube videos your child posts
Comments on their videos
New videos from your child’s channel subscriptions
Your child’s Instagram posts, including images, videos, and captions
LiveMe in-stream chats
Direct messages
Spotify song lyrics
Your child’s Pinterest profile
Images and descriptions they pin
Tumblr photos
Chats
Links
Photo posts
Quotes
Answers
Blog posts
Flickr photos
Comments on photos
Group messages
Direct messages
Images and videos in both
Email Accounts
Gmail emails (sent and received)
Image attachments
Google Chats (Text chat only)
Comcast emails (sent and received)
Image attachments
Outlook emails (sent and received)
Image attachments
Yahoo! emails (sent and received)
Image attachments
Ready to Monitor Yahoo email? Please follow these special instructions.
iCloud emails (sent and received)
Image attachments
Ready to Monitor iCloud email? Please follow these special instructions.
Ready to Set Up Your Foundations Account?
You’ll need your child’s log in credentials for any application that you are going to set up for monitoring. Once you have those, please click on the link in your email to get started setting up your account.
If you need additional assistance, please follow these instructions or reach out to our team at help@bark.us.