Private Contact is a native Cocoa software to manage on Macintosh address books with reserved data inside.

Informations inside documents, relative to various persons, can be read only by the Macintosh owner, and in case of unauthorized access or theft of the Mac, the data inside Private Contact documents can't be read without the right password.

This feature can help a lot MacBook owners with precious data regarding users address inside.

Private Contact is easy to use and despite it uses the powerful Blowfish algorithm, open and closing operations are absolutely easy and similar to the one of standard Mac OS X application plus just a password to provide opening a document.

Some country has restrictive rules about privacy and personal data, Private Contact answer to these requests allowing a high level of protection to all data inside it, accessible only with the right password at the document opening.

The use of the blowfish algorithm, managed at decoding level by Apple native libraries available on any Mac, allows to the user a safety margin on data protection.
Also in the unfortunate situation your Mac come in the hands of expert hacker, without the document password, they can't be able to read data inside the document because are all Blowfish encrypted. Even we the creator of Private Contact won't be able to do anything!

Data encrypting saving documents is always on by default, it is impossible to save data in plain format due to a user mistake, if data are saved, they are always encrypted by default, asking the user the password to use if it was never provided.
At this point the password will be requested only opening the document.

Private contact allows to be used in a profitable way from the first time the user runs it thanks to the few easy commands that execute all the necessary functionalities.
Private Contact can inform automatically (if the user likes it) when an update is available allowing the user to download it with a single click.

Private Contact windows has on the left a list with all the contact inside and on the right a details of the selected contact.
For any contact 17 different fields are available to input user data and any label of these fields can be customized for any different document.

A great help to classification and organization of data inside any document of Private Contact is using Categories visualized as colored label in the contact list.

Using the association of contacts with a category, and having any category with a different color and properties, the user can in a glance have an good overview on how the data inside the document is organized. This is a tool allowing to use Private Contact in a better and fast way