Accountability alerts
Accountability alerts tell your keyholder when protection is paused, removed, interfered with, or goes quiet. They show protection health and explicit requests — never your browsing.
Protection health, at a glance
Protection health is a state, in plain words. It is what your keyholder can see about your device — never a record of what you were doing when it changed.
- Protected
- The service, browser integrations, and policy are all in place.
- Needs attention
- Something is wrong and needs a look — for example, a browser integration that is missing.
- Offline
- The PC has not checked in with GuardianBlock recently.
- Tamper detected
- Protection was interfered with outside the supported path.
- Unsupported browser detected
- A browser GuardianBlock does not protect is in use.
- Guardian pending
- Your keyholder has not accepted yet.
- Rolled back
- An update failed and the last good protection release was restored.
Both the tray app and the dashboard show the same state.
What your keyholder is alerted about
Alerts follow protection, not behaviour. Each one names a change to protection or a request you chose to send.
- Protection paused, removed, or interfered with
- A device that stops checking in
- An unsupported browser in use
- Your Emergency allow requests and deactivation requests
- A change to where alerts are sent
What “goes quiet” means
Your PC checks in with GuardianBlock regularly while it is on and online. If check-ins stop, the device shows as Offline and your keyholder can see it. GuardianBlock reports the state honestly: a powered-off laptop, a lost connection, and a deliberate change can all look quiet from a distance, so an alert says the device needs attention rather than guessing why.
What your keyholder never receives
This is the same sealed list published on the privacy page for keyholders and protected adults. An alert does not widen it.
- Your browsing history or the sites you visit.
- Search queries, keystrokes, messages, or screenshots.
- A feed of everywhere you go — there is no activity log to scroll.
- Anything beyond the explicit requests and health signals you opted into.
Silence is never approval
An alert is information for your keyholder. It never approves or denies anything on its own, and no alert can turn protection off.
Common questions
- Does my partner know if I uninstall it?
- Turning protection off through the supported path starts with a request your keyholder approves or denies, so they know before anything is removed. Removal or interference outside that path shows up as a protection-health change — Tamper detected or Offline, depending on what the device could report — and that change is what your keyholder is alerted to.
- Does my partner see which sites I try to open?
- No. Your keyholder sees protection health and the requests you choose to send them — an Emergency allow request carries the site and the reason you wrote. The pages you open, and the ones a block stops, are not shown to them.
- How fast is an alert?
- An alert follows the evidence. It is raised when the device reports the change, or when its check-ins stop arriving. GuardianBlock reports what the device reported rather than promising a delivery time, and it does not claim to know why a device went quiet.
Accountability, not a feed.
Alerts exist so your keyholder can act when protection changes — and so nothing else about your day has to travel with it.
GuardianBlock for Windows will be available soon.