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 detection. When excluded, Vantic stops processing all events for that application — 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 application 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 detection window has started, previously collected data for that application is retained but no new data is collected.Password managers, Australian banking applications, and macOS 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.Purge controls
Four deletion granularities are available from the Privacy Hub:Audit log note: Purging workflow signal events does not clear the local audit log. Audit records are the constitutional enforcement trail — they confirm that exclusion checks, hashing, and discards were applied on every event. Audit records age out automatically after 12 months via their own retention schedule, independent of Privacy Hub purges.
Pausing detection
Pause signal detection 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.Retention policy
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.Data & retention
Full retention detail and what is stored where.
Manage privacy controls
Step-by-step instructions for exclusions, purges, and pausing.