Who operates HealthVibe
HealthVibe is an informational lifestyle website for adults in the United Kingdom, operated by John Smith. It covers everyday habits, walking, rest and self-care. Questions about cookies, device storage or the processing of personal data can be sent to healthvibe.official@gmail.com.
This page explains the website’s declared use of cookies and similar technologies. Device storage and server-side processing are different activities: a website can operate without cookies while still processing technical information when someone requests a page.
The declared device-storage setup
According to the operator’s description of the current setup, HealthVibe does not use first-party or third-party cookies. It also does not use Local Storage, Session Storage or other technologies to store information on, or track activity through, visitors’ devices.
Cookies are small pieces of information that a website can place in a browser. Local Storage and Session Storage are other browser facilities for keeping information. UK rules on storage and access technologies are not limited to items called cookies; the purpose and operation of a technology matter as well.
The declared setup does not include advertising, affiliate links, newsletters, comments or submission forms. No advertising pixels or third-party visitor web-analytics systems are described as installed.
Search monitoring
The operator uses Google Search Console to monitor how HealthVibe is indexed in Google Search. This is described as a search-indexing tool, rather than a visitor-tracking service installed on HealthVibe.
Using a search-indexing service is not, by itself, evidence that HealthVibe places analytics cookies on visitors’ devices. This page describes HealthVibe’s declared setup, not the separate processing that may occur when someone uses a search engine or other external service.
Technical information without cookies
HealthVibe is hosted by DigitalOcean. When a visitor requests a page, the web server automatically records technical information in server logs: the device’s IP address, the date and time of the request, browser and operating-system type, and the address of the referring page.
The stated purposes of these logs are technical stability, correct page delivery and protection against malicious activity, including attacks and attempts to compromise the site. The operator identifies legitimate interests as the legal basis for this processing.
These logs are stored on the server, rather than as cookies or browser-storage entries on a visitor’s device. The absence of cookies therefore does not mean that visits are anonymous or that no personal data is processed. Disabling cookies in a browser does not, by itself, prevent the server from receiving the information needed to handle a page request.
Consent and browser controls
For the declared setup, there are no website cookies or device-storage technologies for visitors to accept or reject. Simply browsing HealthVibe is not consent to advertising cookies or other consent-dependent technologies.
Under UK storage and access rules, consent requirements depend on the technology, its purpose and whether the conditions of an applicable exception are met. Analytics cannot automatically be treated as either requiring consent in every case or being exempt in every case.
You can use your browser’s settings to block or delete cookies and inspect stored site data. These controls apply to browser storage; they do not erase server logs. Where a technology requires consent, visitors must be able to withdraw that consent. This conditional explanation does not mean that HealthVibe currently uses such a technology.
Questions and objections
For questions about this page, or to raise a concern about technical data processing, contact John Smith at healthvibe.official@gmail.com. You may object to processing based on legitimate interests on grounds relating to your particular situation; this right is not an automatic entitlement to stop all processing.
If you believe your personal data has been handled improperly, you may also raise a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK data protection regulator.