Privacy and safety
A notice is only worth reading if it really came from your Sangam. A directory is only worth joining if strangers can't harvest it. Here is how Vysya Setu protects both.
Anyone can set up a Sangam, but only verified ones carry the badge. We check that the Sangam exists and that the person asking represents it. Directories and other spaces that connect members across Sangams are open only to confirmed members of verified Sangams.
Membership works the same way. An invitation link only lets someone ask to join. The Sangam confirms each member, so a membership card means the Sangam vouches for that person.
Two settings decide what other members see. Your Profile card (your name, photo, city, native place, profession, and gotram) can stay with you, go to the members of your Sangams, or be found by confirmed members across the Network. Your phone, WhatsApp, and email go only to your Connections unless you choose your Sangams, and never to the Network. You can also hide your native place or gotram.
To get in touch, a member sends a contact request. You accept or decline, and you choose which contact details to share. There is no chat inside the app, so nobody can message you without that step. If you block someone, they can't find you or send you requests.
The network directory is search-only and opt-in. Nobody can scroll through every member. Each person gets a fixed number of searches a day, and results stop after a few pages, so a member list can't be copied out of Vysya Setu.
A Sangam's own member directory is visible only to its members, and the Sangam can switch it off.
The Privacy Policy lists every kind of data we hold, who processes it, and for how long. Questions go to privacy@vysyasetu.com.