PostHog is a product analytics and feature platform, reviewed for event/session data, cloud versus self-hosting controls, sharing, tracking, retention, and controls.
80
Good
80
Good
PostHog keeps sharing tighter than its tracking footprint.
PostHog handles sharing more cleanly than its other privacy areas, with clearer boundaries around vendors, admins, and business disclosures.
PostHog is weakest on ads and tracking because tracking, analytics, and ad-related signals still follow how people use the service.
80
Good
PostHog offers self-hosting and customer-controlled deployment instead of forcing all product data into vendor-managed infrastructure.
The product is fundamentally an analytics and experimentation platform rather than a consumer AI service that thrives on user prompts.
Customers can govern what events, recordings, and product data even enter the system.
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Good
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Mixed
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Good
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Good
Posthog Privacy Page
Open: posthog.com1. Controls
PostHog offers self-hosting and customer-controlled deployment instead of forcing all product data into vendor-managed infrastructure.
2. Tracking
The product is fundamentally an analytics and experimentation platform rather than a consumer AI service that thrives on user prompts.
3. Customers Can
Customers can govern what events, recordings, and product data even enter the system.
4. AI Use
Recordings, experiments, and AI-adjacent features can still process sensitive event data if customers configure the platform poorly.
Founded
Unknown
Founder
Unknown
Parent Company
PostHog
Lifecycle
Active
Category
Analytics & Tracking
CEO
Unknown
Security Team
In house
Date Added
05-18-2026
Once you delete a chat, you cannot recover it. Deleting a chat removes it both from your visible chat history and the system after the retention window.
Recordings, experiments, and AI-adjacent features can still process sensitive event data if customers configure the platform poorly.
85
Good
Self-hosting can keep analytics data under the customer's own infrastructure and governance.
Customers control projects, exports, and integrations rather than accepting all sharing paths by default.
The privacy materials document cloud-service handling rather than pretending that no third parties exist.
PostHog Cloud, exports, integrations, and service providers can still create meaningful data flows.
70
Mixed
PostHog is still designed to collect product behavior events and optional recordings.
Customers can minimize event capture and mask sensitive session data.
The product is analytics-oriented but not an ad network built for cross-site behavioral advertising.
Self-hosting reduces the amount of behavior data exposed to the vendor.
80
Good
Customers can govern retention and deletion through project settings and hosting choices.
Self-hosting lets teams own backups, storage, and deletion timing directly.
Project access controls help limit how long and how broadly sensitive analytics data remains available.
Backups, exports, and cloud-service settings can still preserve analytics data longer than teams expect.
85
Good
Admins can manage projects, member access, capture, recordings, retention, and integrations.
Customers choose what events and properties they instrument in the first place.
Self-hosting and data-masking options let privacy-conscious teams tighten the setup significantly.
End-user privacy still depends heavily on how each customer configures capture, masking, and access.
