Cookies
This showcase runs one analytics tool and nothing else. It is off until you say otherwise, and this is where you say otherwise.
Analytics
The short version
Taste Vault is a library of design references. The gallery you are looking at is a published copy of a private vault, and the only thing it measures is which references people open — that is what decides what gets added next. There are no accounts, no advertising, and nothing is sold or shared with anyone who would want to sell it.
Until you accept, no analytics code is loaded at all. Declining is not a setting the tracker is asked to respect; it is the tracker never arriving.
What is stored, once you accept
The measurement is done by PostHog, running in its European region. It keeps a random device id so that three page views in a row are recognisable as one visit rather than three strangers. The id is generated in your browser and is not tied to a name, an email address or an account, because the showcase has none of those.
| Name | Kind | What for | Kept |
|---|---|---|---|
ph_…_posthog | Cookie | The random device id, and which visit this is | 1 year |
ph_…_posthog | Local storage | The same thing, so a cleared cookie does not restart the count | Until cleared |
ph_…_window_id | Session storage | Tells one open tab from another | Until the tab closes |
tv.consent | Local storage | Your answer to the banner, so it stops asking | Until cleared |
__ph_opt_in_out_… | Local storage | Written only if you turn analytics back off, to hold PostHog to it | Until cleared |
Only the last of those is written before you have answered, and it is written whichever way you answer. Nothing can be read from it except the word granted or denied.
What it is asked
A page view each time you move around the gallery, clicks on links and buttons, and a handful of named events for the things this particular site exists to answer:
reference_opened— which reference, and whether it has a rebuildprompt_copied— that a prompt was taken, and which shape of itsearch_performed,search_selected— what people look for, and whether they find itgallery_filtered— which tags and types are being narrowed todemo_opened— that a rebuild was opened full size
Alongside each of those, PostHog records the ordinary things a web server sees anyway: the page, the referrer, the browser, and a country worked out from the IP address. The IP address itself is used for that and not stored against the event.
What is never collected
- No session recording. Your screen, your cursor and your typing are not replayed, because the feature is switched off in code rather than merely unused.
- No profiles. Nobody signs in, nobody is identified, and no person record is created to attach a history to.
- No advertising, and no third-party trackers. There is no ad network, no pixel, no remarketing tag and no data broker anywhere in this site.
- Nothing across other sites. The cookie is first-party. It says nothing about where you were before or where you go next.
Who else sees it
PostHog, as the processor, on servers in the European Union (eu.i.posthog.com) — the data does not leave that region. Events are kept for as long as the project retains them, and are deleted after that. Their own terms are at posthog.com/privacy.
The site itself is hosted on Vercel, which handles the request the way any web host does. That is delivery, not measurement, and it sets no cookie of its own here.
Changing your mind
Use the switch at the top of this page. Turning it off takes effect immediately in the tab you are in: capture stops, and the cookie and local storage described above are deleted. You do not have to reload anything.
Your browser can also do it for you — every one of them can block or clear cookies for a single site, and clearing this one's storage resets the choice, so the banner will ask again next time.
Getting in touch
This showcase is built by SharpHaw. Anything you want asked, corrected or deleted goes to sharphaw.com.
This page covers what is stored. What you may do with what is published — the prompts, the analyses, the rebuilds — is the other half of the paperwork, and it is on the terms page.
Last updated 15 September 2026.