About this app

Avast Family Space was designed for parents who want to parent responsibly both on and offline. Simply Install Avast Family Space Companion on your child’s device and pair it with your Avast Family Space for parents app so you can track your child’s location, monitor their online activity, block inappropriate content, and more.

Avast Family Space is a parental assistance app that gives you complete parental control over your child’s mobile devices so you can keep your child safe and help them develop healthy online habits.

Here's what the Avast Family Space Companion allows you to do:
✔ Restrict your child's access to specific apps or websites.
✔ Restrict your child's access to specific app categories or block inappropriate content.
✔ Monitor your child's location.
✔ Set up location alerts to notify you when your child arrives at or leaves a location.
✔ Set up rules around location.
✔ Set up rules around internet access.

HOW DOES AVAST FAMILY SPACE WORK?
To connect your child’s mobile device to your own, you must first download Avast Family Space for parents onto your device and then download Avast Family Space Companion onto your child’s device. You will then follow a few simple onboarding instructions to complete the setup process.

Download Avast Family Space for parents: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.avast.android.familyspace

Once the Avast Family Space Companion app is activated, you will be able to block inappropriate content and manage which apps your child can use, view their location using a phone locator, pause internet use, and get location alerts so you’ll know where they are at all times.

Common parental concerns that Avast Family Space addresses:
Did my child arrive home safely from school?
Quickly view your child’s current location on a private GPS map with the help of a phone locator.

Are they using inappropriate apps?
Easily block an app that you don’t want your child to have access to. If you change your mind, you can unblock the app whenever you want.

Are they browsing the internet at school?
Pause internet access on your child’s device so he or she won’t get distracted while at school.

Are they exposed to inappropriate web content?
Block websites or content categories that you feel are inappropriate for your child.

They aren’t responding, did something happen?
View your child’s phone status and check their device’s battery life.


When the app is opened for the first time we will generate and collect a unique identifier in order to measure app installations and campaign performance.

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App Permissions

Allows an application to collect component usage statistics
Declaring the permission implies intention to use the API and the user of the device can grant permission through the Settings application.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows read access to the device's phone number(s].
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Allows an application to call killBackgroundProcesses(String].
Allows an app to create windows using the type TYPE_APPLICATION_OVERLAY, shown on top of all other apps.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Must be required by an AccessibilityService, to ensure that only the system can bind to it.