Privacy Controls

You already do this. You give your mobile number to friends and a work email to colleagues; you'd mention your home address to a dinner guest but not to someone you met once at a conference. The same fact carries different value, and different risk, depending on who's asking. We manage this effortlessly in person and then, online, throw it all away — one profile, identical for everyone, take it or leave it.

Vauchi's privacy controls simply let the software catch up to the social intelligence you've had all along. One card, but each person sees the version that fits them.

How it works

Every field can be shown to or hidden from each contact, individually. That's the whole model — granular, and entirely yours.

Your Contact Card
┌────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Name: Alice Smith                         │
│                                            │
│  ┌─────────────────┬─────────┬─────────┐   │
│  │ Field           │ Family  │ Work    │   │
│  ├─────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤   │
│  │ Personal Email  │   ✓     │   ✗     │   │
│  │ Work Email      │   ✓     │   ✓     │   │
│  │ Personal Phone  │   ✓     │   ✗     │   │
│  │ Work Phone      │   ✓     │   ✓     │   │
│  │ Home Address    │   ✓     │   ✗     │   │
│  └─────────────────┴─────────┴─────────┘   │
│                                            │
│  Family sees 5 fields, Work sees 2 fields  │
└────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Per-contact visibility

To change what a particular person sees:

  1. Go to Contacts
  2. Select the contact
  3. Find What They Can See
  4. Toggle fields on or off

Each field is simply Visible or Hidden for that contact. New fields start visible to everyone — a sensible default you can tighten the moment you add them, or any time after.

Labels — visibility without the tedium

Setting every field for every contact by hand would be exhausting, and exhaustion is the enemy of privacy: controls people don't use protect no one. Labels fix that by letting you decide once for a whole category of people.

  1. Create labels like Family, Work, Friends
  2. Assign contacts to them
  3. Set what each label sees
  4. Someone in two labels sees the union of both

Labels are your private organising tool — a shortcut that resolves to ordinary per-contact rules underneath. A worked example:

LabelWhat they see
FamilyEverything
WorkWork email, work phone
FriendsPersonal email, personal phone
AcquaintancesJust your name

Changing many at once

From the home screen, tap the visibility control beside any field:

  • Show to all — visible to every contact
  • Hide from all — hidden from everyone
  • Customise — pick contacts one by one

The quiet details that matter

  • No real-time peeking — changes reach a contact when they next open the app, not the instant you make them
  • No notifications — nobody is told when you hide something
  • It looks like removal — a hidden field is indistinguishable from a deleted one, which is the point
  • No history — contacts only ever see your card as it is now, never as it was

A few worked scenarios

Keep business and personal apart. A "Business" label for professional contacts: show work email, work phone, LinkedIn; hide personal phone and home address. Your two lives stay two.

An inner circle. A "Close Friends" label that sees everything, while everyone else sees a deliberately thinner card. Intimacy, by design.

Lend a detail, then take it back. Reveal a field to one person, finish whatever you needed it for, then hide it again — their access ends immediately. Sharing needn't be permanent to be useful.