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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

These pages are designed to help resolve the most frequently asked questions relating to the ICRA rating system and its RSACi forerunner. The FAQs are divided into three sections: 1. general information; 2. information for internet users, particularly parents of young children; and 3. webmasters.

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1 About the Internet Content Rating Association

1.1	What is ICRA?
1.2	What is RSACi?

2 Information for internet users

2.1	How do I use the ICRA system?
2.2	I am unable to access some of my favourite sites because they are unrated. What can I do?
2.3	I've just found an offensive site, how come it's not labelled?
2.4	I do not know my password, what can I do?
2.5	How do I change my password?
2.6	How do I disable filtering in my browser?
2.7	Internet Explorer is giving me 'Error - missing information" messages when I start the browser; OR Content Advisor has enabled itself and assigned itself a password; OR Content Advisor is not being disabled even after the correct procedure is followed; OR Content Advisor is not storing settings or Approved Sites list correctly; OR Content Advisor is not filtering any sites, even ones I have marked as Never being accessible through the Approved Sites list.
2.8	I have deleted the hidden file icra.rat or Rsaci.rat by mistake. Where can I get another copy?

3 Information for webmasters

3.1	I've got my ICRA label. How do I apply it to my site?
3.2	Where can I get a copy of my ICRA label if I have deleted it from my web site?
3.3	How do I re-rate my site and get a new label?
3.4	How does different filtering software read ICRA labels?
3.5	What are the different elements in an ICRA label?
3.6	How do I label a more complex site? OR I've labelled my site but I get an error message similar to "The label found on this site is intended for another one." What's going on?
3.7	Most of my site has similar content, but one or two pages should be labelled differently. How should I proceed?
3.8	What's the best way to include labels from more than one organization?
3.9	My site has hundreds of pages built dynamically from a database. How do I rate all the content without having to fill in the questionnaire every time?
3.10	My domain redirects visitors to a different url where the site is actually hosted, how should I proceed?
3.11	My site won't be live until later than I said on the old questionnaire. What can I do?
3.12	How do I "decode" an ICRA label?
3.13	My HTML editor has swapped "<" and ">" for "&lt" and "&gt" in my label. Why and what should I do?
3.14	I am web master for tens or hundreds of different sites, all of which need the same rating. I don't want to fill in the form every time! What should I do?

Further Support ...

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