HealthDhana Cookie Policy

Effective Date: 01 September 2022
Last Updated: 17 August 2026

At HealthDhana, we are committed to respecting your privacy and being transparent about the technologies used on our Website.

This Cookie Policy explains how HealthDhana (“HealthDhana”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) may use cookies and similar technologies when you visit HealthDhana.net (the “Website”).

This Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which provides further information about how we handle personal information.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites may place on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit them.

Cookies can help websites function properly, remember preferences, understand how visitors interact with pages and improve the overall user experience.

Some cookies remain on your device only while your browser is open, while others may remain for a specified period or until you delete them.

2. Why HealthDhana Uses Cookies

Depending on the functionality and services available on HealthDhana, cookies and similar technologies may be used to:

Operate the Website
Provide essential Website functionality
Maintain Website security
Remember user preferences
Understand how visitors interact with HealthDhana
Measure Website performance
Identify and resolve technical problems
Improve Website content and usability
Support analytics
Support advertising where applicable
Remember cookie-consent choices

We aim to use cookies responsibly and in accordance with applicable privacy and data-protection requirements.

3. Types of Cookies

Cookies used on HealthDhana may fall into the following categories.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are required for important Website functions and security.

They may support functions such as:

Website security
Network management
Fraud prevention
Session management
Cookie-consent preferences
Other essential Website functionality

Because these cookies are necessary for the Website to function properly, they may not always require user consent where applicable law permits their use without consent.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies help provide enhanced Website functionality and remember choices you make.

For example, they may remember:

Website preferences
Display preferences
Language choices
Certain user settings

If these cookies are disabled, some Website features may not operate as intended.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

HealthDhana may use analytics and performance cookies to understand how visitors use the Website.

These technologies may help us understand information such as:

Number of Website visitors
Pages viewed
Time spent on pages
How visitors navigate the Website
How visitors arrive at HealthDhana
General Website performance
Technical errors

We use this information to understand Website performance and improve the experience we provide.

Where required by applicable law, analytics cookies will be used only after appropriate consent has been obtained.

Advertising Cookies

HealthDhana may introduce advertising as the platform develops.

If advertising services are used, advertising providers may use cookies or similar technologies for purposes such as:

Delivering advertisements
Measuring advertising performance
Limiting how often advertisements appear
Understanding advertising interactions
Preventing advertising fraud
Personalising advertising where permitted and consented to

Where required, appropriate consent will be requested before non-essential advertising technologies are activated.

For more information about HealthDhana’s approach to advertising, please see our Advertising Policy.

4. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies

First-Party Cookies

First-party cookies are set directly by HealthDhana or through the Website infrastructure.

They may be used for essential Website functionality, security, preferences and other Website operations.

Third-Party Cookies

Third-party cookies may be set by external services integrated into HealthDhana.

These could include services relating to:

Website analytics
Video or media embeds
Social media
Advertising
Website security
Forms
Other third-party functionality

Third-party providers are responsible for their own cookies and data-processing practices.

We encourage users to review the privacy and cookie information provided by relevant third parties.

5. Analytics

HealthDhana may use website analytics services to understand Website traffic and usage.

Analytics services can help us understand how visitors interact with our content so that we can improve:

Website navigation
Content
Performance
User experience
Technical reliability

If HealthDhana uses analytics technologies requiring consent, we aim to obtain the appropriate consent before activating those technologies.

The specific analytics services used by HealthDhana should be identified in this Policy or through our cookie-consent interface where appropriate.

6. Embedded Content

Some HealthDhana pages may contain content provided by third parties.

Examples may include:

Videos
Maps
Social-media content
Interactive tools
Research resources
Other embedded services

Third-party embedded content may use cookies or similar technologies.

Where required, non-essential third-party technologies may be blocked until the appropriate consent has been provided.

7. Cookies and Health Information

HealthDhana operates in the health and digital health information space.

We recognise that information relating to a person’s health can be sensitive.

We do not intend to use cookies simply to infer sensitive medical information about individual visitors from the health articles they read for inappropriate purposes.

As HealthDhana introduces new tools or services, we will review the privacy implications of those technologies and update our policies where appropriate.

8. Digital Health Tools

HealthDhana may introduce digital health tools, including nutrition tools, health calculators, medicine-information tools and other interactive features.

Some tools may require technologies such as cookies or local storage to operate correctly.

Where a particular HealthDhana tool involves additional data collection or storage, further privacy and cookie information may be provided specifically for that tool.

9. Cookie Consent

Where required by applicable law, HealthDhana will seek consent before placing or accessing non-essential cookies on your device.

Our cookie-consent mechanism may allow you to:

Accept cookies
Reject non-essential cookies
Select cookie categories
Change your preferences

Strictly necessary cookies may remain active where they are required for the Website to operate and applicable law permits their use without consent.

10. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You can control cookies in several ways.

Where HealthDhana provides a cookie-preference tool, you can use it to manage your choices.

You can also manage or delete cookies through your web browser.

Most browsers allow you to:

View stored cookies
Delete cookies
Block certain cookies
Block all cookies
Control cookies on a website-by-website basis

Please be aware that blocking certain cookies may affect the functionality or user experience of some websites.

11. Withdrawing Consent

Where processing relies on your consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time.

Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.

Where available, you can change your cookie preferences through the cookie settings or consent controls provided on HealthDhana.

12. How Long Cookies Remain on Your Device

Different cookies may remain on your device for different periods.

Session Cookies

Session cookies generally expire when you close your browser.

Persistent Cookies

Persistent cookies may remain on your device after your browser is closed until they reach their expiry date or you delete them.

The duration of individual cookies depends on their purpose and the service that provides them.

Where appropriate, more detailed information about cookie duration may be provided through HealthDhana’s cookie-consent tool.

13. Changes to the Cookies We Use

The cookies and technologies used by HealthDhana may change as we:

Improve the Website
Introduce new functionality
Add digital health tools
Change technology providers
Introduce analytics
Introduce advertising
Add third-party services

We will review this Cookie Policy and update it where appropriate to reflect material changes.

14. Updates to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our Website, technologies, services, legal requirements or business practices.

When we make material changes, we will update the Last Updated date displayed at the top of this Policy.

15. Contact Us

If you have questions about HealthDhana’s use of cookies or related privacy practices, please contact us.

HealthDhana

Website: HealthDhana.net
Privacy enquiries: info@healthdhana.net
Location: United Kingdom

For additional information about how HealthDhana handles personal information, please read our Privacy Policy.

Related HealthDhana Policies

You may also wish to review our:

Privacy Policy
Terms of Use
Editorial Policy
Corrections Policy
Advertising Policy

Together, these policies explain how HealthDhana operates and how we approach privacy, editorial integrity and transparency.

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