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Accessing the Privacy Hub

Open the Privacy Hub from the Vantic IQ menu bar icon, or from Preferences → Privacy Hub inside the application.

Application exclusions

Exclude any application from observation. When excluded, Vantic stops recording all events for that app — no bundle ID, no timestamps, no session duration. The exclusion takes effect immediately. To add an application exclusion: open the Privacy Hub, navigate to Application Exclusions, and select the app or type its name. Excluded applications are not included in Friction Score calculations and are not surfaced in suggestions. If you exclude a core application after the observation period has started, previously collected data for that app is retained but no new data is collected.
Password managers, banking applications, and system credential prompts are permanently excluded by default. They do not appear in the Privacy Hub because they cannot be re-included.

Time window exclusions

Exclude specific times of day or days of the week. Useful if you use your Mac for personal work outside business hours and do not want that activity influencing your business Friction Score. Time window exclusions apply from the point of configuration forward — they do not retroactively remove previously collected data.

Deleting your data

ActionEffect
Delete last hourPermanently removes all workflow signal events from the last 60 minutes
Delete last dayPermanently removes all workflow signal events from the last 24 hours
Delete all workflow dataPermanently removes all workflow signal events
Delete accountPermanently removes all workflow data, Friction Score patterns, audit records, and your account
Deletion is immediate and permanent. Deleted workflow events cannot be recovered. Deleting workflow events does not automatically delete your Friction Score patterns — patterns are separate records that persist until you explicitly delete them or close your account.

Pausing observation

Pause observation at any time from the menu bar. The icon dims. Existing data and Friction Scores are unaffected. Resume from the menu bar at any time.

Patterns vs events

When you delete workflow signal events, you are deleting the raw signal data that the Pattern Engine processed. Friction Score patterns calculated from that data are separate records. Each pattern shows the number of events it was derived from and the date range of the oldest contributing event — so you always know what the score is based on.