HEALTHBLOCKS’ COOKIE POLICY
Last updated: August 2026
HealthBlocks (as defined below) uses cookies to improve your browsing experience on its “Website” (including both the HealthBlocks website i.e. https://www.healthblocks.ai and related subdomains, as well as the HealthBlocks application, as described and represented via https://www.healthblocks.ai). Therefore, this policy will provide you with the necessary information about the use of these cookies by HealthBlocks (“Cookie Policy”). Please read this Cookie Policy together with our Privacy Policy.
You can find our archived Cookie Policies in pdf format here.
1. COOKIE CONTROLLER
Legal entity: HealthBlocks B.V. (“HealthBlocks”)
Address: Duinlustweg 16, 2051 AA Overveen (The Netherlands)
Enterprise number: NL-74929984
To have access to our policies you can visit the Website.
2. WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies, also known as ‘HTTP cookies’, ‘web cookies’ or ‘browser cookies’, are small text files that are sent to and stored on your computer or mobile device through your browser when you visit a website, especially when using a mobile application. When you surf the same website later on, the data stored in that cookie can be retrieved by the website in order to notify the website of the last activity. Cookies were designed as a reliable mechanism for websites to remember the status of the website or the previous activity of a certain user. They help us to optimise your visit to the Website, to remember technical choices (e.g. choice of language, newsletter, etc.) and to offer more relevant services and offers.
If you wish to consult/use the Website to its full potential, HealthBlocks encourages you to enable cookies (See Section 5 on how to enable/disable cookies).
3. WHAT KIND OF COOKIES ARE USED?
There are different types of cookies, based on their (i) duration, (ii) provenance or (iii) processing purpose:
Based on duration
Session cookies: these cookies allow a user's actions to be simplified and linked to each other during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser screen and ends when the user closes the browser screen. Session cookies are placed temporarily. As soon as you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted. Most functional cookies are session cookies;
Persistent cookies: these cookies remain on your hard drive until you erase them or your browser does, depending on the cookie’s expiration date.
Based on provenance
First-party cookies: these cookies are placed by the owner of the visited website;
Third-party cookies: these cookies are placed by a domain name other than the one of the website visited by the user. If a user visits a website and a third party places a cookie through that website, then this is to be considered a third party cookie (e.g. cookies placed by Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook).
Based on processing purpose
Strictly necessary cookies: these cookies are essential for you to browse a website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site. These cookies will generally be first-party session cookies;
Functional cookies (or “preference cookies”): these cookies allow a website to remember choices you have made in the past, like what language you prefer, or what your user name and password are so you can automatically log in;
Analytical cookies (or “statistical cookies”): these cookies collect information about how you use a website, like which pages you visited and which links you clicked on. None of this information can be used to identify you. It is all aggregated and, therefore, anonymised. Their sole purpose is to improve website functions. This includes cookies from third-party analytics services as long as the cookies are for the exclusive use of the owner of the website visited;
Targeting cookies (or “tracking/marketing cookies”): these cookies track your online activity to help advertisers deliver more relevant advertising or to limit how many times you see an ad. These cookies can share that information with other organizations or advertisers. These are persistent cookies and almost always of third-party provenance.
4. OVERVIEW OF THE COOKIES HEALTHBLOCKS USES ON THE WEBSITE AND/OR APPLICATION
STRICTLY NECESSARY COOKIES
Name: __cf_bm
Provider: Cloudflare
Description: Distinguishes human visitors from automated traffic in order to protect the Website against abuse. It is set by the content delivery network that serves the Website and is required for the Website to operate securely.
Retention: 30 minutes
ANALYTICAL COOKIES
HealthBlocks does not use analytical cookies. Website statistics are collected using Plausible Analytics, which measures visits without cookies, without collecting personal data and without tracking visitors across websites. No consent is required for this, and no data is shared with advertising networks.
5. MANAGING AND DISABLING COOKIES
5.1 Your cookie preferences
The Website places only the strictly necessary cookie described in Section 4, which protects the Website against automated abuse. Because HealthBlocks places no analytical, functional or advertising cookies, no consent is requested and no cookie pop-up is shown. Should HealthBlocks introduce cookies that require consent in the future, your consent will be requested before those cookies are placed.
5.2 Via browser settings
You can also modify your browser settings to decline certain cookies and/or to delete cookies that are already installed on your computer or mobile device. There are several possibilities to avoid the storage of cookies. Please visit the websites of the different browsers to learn how you can block the storage of cookies. Here you can find such websites regarding the most common browsers:
Chrome: Clear, enable and manage cookies in Chrome - Android - Google Chrome Help
Firefox: How to clear the Firefox cache | Firefox Help (mozilla.org)
Safari: Manage cookies and website data in Safari on Mac - Apple Support
Microsoft Edge: Delete cookies in Microsoft Edge
Please note that when you decide to delete all your cookies, you probably will have to fill in all your usernames and passwords again on the websites you visit, where before the cookies stored your passwords for you. As already mentioned, cookies have benefits to your surfing experience on the web.
5.3 More information?
If you want to know more about cookies, please visit the site: What are cookies? | Cookies & You (cookiesandyou.com). This website provides more information on cookies, explains in detail how to delete the cookies and shows you how you can allow familiar websites to store cookies on your device.
6. MODIFICATIONS TO THIS COOKIE POLICY
HealthBlocks may alter, amend or update this Cookie Policy as deemed necessary to accommodate the use of new/different cookies, changes in technology, industry practice and legal or regulatory development, etc. Any changes to the Cookie Policy will be published on the Website.
When publishing a new version on the Website, HealthBlocks will indicate the revision date at the beginning of this Cookie Policy.
7. COMPLAINTS
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the authorized supervisory authority (i.e. the Dutch Data Protection Authority or the data protection authority of (i) your residence or (ii) your workplace) should you consider that the processing of your Personal Data infringes the Privacy Legislation. You can send an email to the Dutch Data Protection Authority at [email protected] or any other email address provided by the Dutch Data Protection Authority (https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/contact).
8. QUESTIONS?
If you have any further questions about this Cookie Policy or its implementation, please contact HealthBlocks via email at [email protected].