Sygic Helps Parents and Trick-or-Treaters Stay Safe for Halloween 2014

It’s that time of year again: supermarkets are stocking bite-sized candy galore, you are hunting for the perfect face paint for your little gals and ghouls, and orange decorations are springing up throughout your neighborhood each day. It’s Halloween!
 
According to the latest U.S. Census figures, the U.S. is home to approximately 41 million potential trick-or-treaters aged 5 through 14. Halloween is one of the most anticipated nights of the year for parents and children alike, but unfortunately the holiday also bears great risk as well.
 
Sygic, the company behind the world’s leading GPS offline-navigation software, offers one of the best solutions for keeping track of your children during Halloween. Sygic’s Family Locator – available for free the iOS App Store and Google Play – helps parents stay connected to their loved ones by monitoring real-time locations while providing free in-app messages between family members.
 
Sygic is pleased to provide a list of 8 Halloween safety tips for safe trick-or-treating:
 
·         Always know with whom your children are trick-or-treating
·         Ensure that your children know not to enter a stranger’s home
·         Do not let your children eat any candy before they get home and you examine it
·         Make sure costumes are conducive to safe mobility
·         If your children are trick-or-treating at nighttime, make sure that you know where they are at all time
·         Advise your children to avoid dark streets
·         Educate children on your city to ensure that they will not venture into dangerous neighborhoods
·         At regular intervals, check up on your children to be assured of their safety
 
While Family Locator cannot help with checking your children’s candy, the app can help with virtually almost every other safety concern you might face come Halloween. In addition to monitoring real-time locations, with the Family Locator app family members can check-in to destinations with exact locations, and parents can receive automatic notifications if their children leave predefined trick-or-treat zones. The app allows parents to reconnect with their children if necessary, and in doing so, imparts confidence and comfort to parents and children alike. 

Contact Information

Daniela Zelinová

PR Communication Specialist

Sygic, a.s.

dzelinova@sygic.com