Family admin overview

You signed your family up for ThouShaltNotClick to keep everyone — especially your kids — safer online. Here's what TSNC can actually do for your family, and where to find each piece.

What a Family Admin can do

As a Family Admin (the parent or guardian who created the family account), you have a focused set of tools — designed for someone managing a household, not running an IT department.

• Add family members — your spouse or co-parent, your kids (each with their own login), even grandparents who help with childcare
• Set age-appropriate protections per person — younger kids get stricter rules; teens get more autonomy with monitoring
• See activity at a household level — what suspicious links got blocked, who's practicing safe habits, family-wide trust score
• Receive alerts for serious threats — if a family member encounters something genuinely dangerous (account-stealing phishing, malware site), you find out
• Manage everyone's billing and subscription in one place

What a Family Admin cannot do

• Read your kids' private messages. TSNC blocks dangerous links and reports patterns. It does not record DMs, texts, or content. We're not building a stalkerware product.
• Override another family member's vault. Each person has their own password vault with their own master password. There's no "parent override" key. If your teen forgets their master password, they reset it the same way an adult would.
• See passwords in plain text. All vault entries are end-to-end encrypted. Even though you administer the family account, you can't peek into someone else's passwords.
• Use TSNC at school. If your child's school uses TSNC, that's a separate account managed by their school. Family TSNC and school TSNC don't merge or share data.

Where to start

1. 1
   Add yourself first

   Make sure your own profile is complete, you have MFA set up, and you've installed the browser extension. Get comfortable with TSNC yourself before adding the kids — you'll be the support staff.
2. 2
   Add your spouse or co-parent

   Two adults on the family account is the right setup. Both can manage members, both get alerts, and you have a backup if one of you is unreachable.
3. 3
   Add the kids one at a time

   Don't do it as a project on a Saturday afternoon. Add each kid when they ask why your other kid has it, or when something happens that prompts a conversation about online safety. The conversation is more important than the setup.
4. 4
   Talk to your kids about what TSNC does

   Honest, age-appropriate conversation: "This is a tool that warns us about scams. It doesn't read your messages or watch what you do. It helps you spot tricks online." That framing builds trust; surveillance language destroys it.

The browser extension matters most

The single highest-impact thing you can do for your family's online safety: make sure everyone has the TSNC browser extension installed and enabled in their browser.

The extension is what actually warns about dangerous sites, blocks credential-phishing pages, and shows trust scores on emails. The dashboard is just where you see what happened. Without the extension, you're flying without instruments.

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