Contact Approval
StayKnown does not treat safety access as casual. A person should know when they are being added, who is adding them, what role they are being asked to accept, and why that relationship matters.
Contact Approval creates a consent-aware trust layer before safety alerts, Visit context, SOS updates, or emergency communication depend on the relationship.
- •Starter users can set up trusted safety relationships with clear approval expectations before relying on Visit sharing.
- •A contact should understand who is adding them, what role they are being asked to accept, and why the relationship matters.
- •Pending states should stay calm and readable so users know the request is waiting, not broken.
- •Starter keeps contact trust understandable while higher tiers expand the safety actions those contacts may support.
Contact Approval is StayKnown’s trust gate. It helps make sure a safety relationship is intentional before the app depends on that person for Visit alerts, SOS context, or emergency communication.
The experience should feel calm and reassuring: the account owner knows what they requested, the contact knows what role they are accepting, and the request does not complete until the required confirmations are in place.
In normal apps, adding a contact may be simple. In a safety app, that contact may later receive sensitive context about a Visit, a location update, an SOS alert, or a user’s safety state.
That is why approval should feel more careful. StayKnown can show who is asking, what role is being requested, what is waiting, and whether the relationship has completed or stopped.
A user asks to add someone as a trusted contact, emergency contact, or SOS-related contact.
The request explains the safety role so the person understands what they are being asked to accept.
The account owner and contact email owner can be checked so the relationship is intentional.
Pending, declined, expired, and approved states are shown with calm language.
Only after approval should the contact become part of the safety relationship.
Visitors should understand the assurance quickly: StayKnown uses contact approval so trusted safety relationships are not silent, vague, or forced. A person should understand the role before the app depends on them during safety moments.