Privacy & Transparency

Cookie & Tracking Technology Policy

Transparent disclosure of how Health Custodian uses cookies to provide essential website functionality and improve educational content.

Manage Your Cookie Preferences

You hold full control over your privacy choices across all global jurisdictions. You can modify your analytics consent, exercise your US statutory opt-out rights, or adjust your stored decisions at any time.

What Are Cookies & Local Storage?

Cookies and browser local storage are compact data mechanisms stored on your device by websites you visit. They enable fundamental features (such as retaining dark mode contrast preferences or remembering your language selection), ensure security, and provide anonymized aggregate readership statistics.

Health Custodian operates under strict data minimization principles: we do not deploy third-party advertising tracking pixels, cross-app commercial beacons, or behavioral remarketing cookies that monetize your medical browsing history.

Categorization

Categories of Cookies We Use

Always Active

Essential Cookies

Strictly necessary for security, load balancing, dark/light theme persistence, and recording your consent choices. Under EU/UK ePrivacy regulations, these do not require prior consent because the platform cannot function safely without them.

Requires Prior Consent

Analytics & Insights

Aggregated, non-personally identifiable metrics (such as which health guides are read most and general device categories) that help our clinical editors update critical health information. Strictly opt-in for European visitors.

Functional Choices

Preferences

Allows the platform to remember personalized browsing settings, such as your chosen reading language in our multilingual reader or font zoom preferences.

Global Privacy Control (GPC) Universal Opt-Out

Health Custodian natively recognizes the Global Privacy Control (GPC) standard (globalprivacycontrol.org). GPC is an automated browser setting that signals your opt-out preference to every website you visit.

Automated Compliance: If your browser or browser extension has GPC enabled (available natively in browsers like Firefox, Brave, and DuckDuckGo, or via privacy extensions), our platform automatically honors this signal, instantly disabling non-essential analytics and marking you as opted out under California CCPA/CPRA, Colorado CPA, and other US state laws.

Controlling Cookies via Your Browser

In addition to our on-site settings modal, all modern web browsers provide native settings allowing you to inspect, block, or delete cookies:

Google Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Third-party cookies
Apple Safari: Settings → Safari → Advanced → Privacy
Mozilla Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Enhanced Tracking
Microsoft Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions

Health Custodian uses cookies and similar technologies to improve website functionality, understand general usage patterns, and enhance the browsing experience.

What Cookies Are

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They help websites function properly and may also provide information about how visitors use the site.

Types of Cookies Used

Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function correctly and cannot be disabled through the site’s settings.

Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors interact with the website, including which pages are most useful and how the site can be improved.

These cookies are only used where consent is provided, where required by law.

Third-Party Content

Some pages may contain embedded content or external media (such as videos or social media integrations) that may place cookies through third-party services.

Your Choices

When you first visit this website, you may choose whether to accept or decline non-essential cookies.

You may also:

  • update your cookie preferences later
  • delete cookies through your browser settings
  • block cookies through your browser preferences

Please note that disabling some cookies may affect parts of the website’s functionality.

GDPR and ePrivacy Compliance

In accordance with European data protection and ePrivacy regulations:

  • visitors are informed about cookie usage
  • non-essential cookies are not activated before consent where required
  • users have the ability to accept, reject, or manage cookie preferences

Changes to This Policy

This policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes in regulations, technology, or website functionality. to reflect changes in technology or regulations.

Policy Currency & Revisions

This policy is routinely reviewed alongside international digital privacy frameworks (GDPR, UK GDPR, ePrivacy Directive, and CCPA). Last reviewed: October 2026.

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