Cookie policy

In short

No cookie is set or read when you visit this site, and nothing is written to your browser's local or session storage. That is why there is no consent banner: there is nothing to consent to.

Belgian law requires consent before information is stored on your device or read from it, unless that is strictly necessary for the service you asked for (law of 30 July 2018, Article 10/2). This site does neither.

At a glance

Cookies: none.

Local and session storage: none.

Analytics, advertising or social media trackers: none.

Third-party scripts, fonts or embeds: none. Fonts and images come from this domain, so opening a page sends no request to anyone else.

Browser cache: yes. Images, fonts and styles are kept on your device so that pages load faster on your next visit; nothing is reported back.

What that rules out

No audience measurement, no retargeting pixels, no social media buttons that report your visit, no embedded video, maps or chat, no A/B testing or personalisation. This also follows the position of the Order of Physicians: a doctor's website should not profile its visitors without their knowledge.

How you can check

Open your browser's developer tools on any page of this site and look at the storage section: the lists of cookies and stored data stay empty. The site also sends a Content-Security-Policy header that only allows code, fonts and connections from this domain.

Our host's security systems

Cloudflare, which hosts the site, may set a strictly necessary security cookie if it ever needs to tell a person from automated traffic (for example __cf_bm). Such a cookie is exempt from consent, is not used to follow you and expires after 30 minutes at most.

If you follow a booking link

Rosa and Doctoranytime, the booking platforms, are separate services that set their own cookies; Rosa, for example, asks your consent for its analytics cookies. Their own policies apply there, not this one: Rosa's cookie policy and Doctoranytime's privacy policy, which covers its cookies.

If this changes

Should the practice ever add anything that needs a cookie or browser storage, this page will be updated first, and your consent will be asked for anything that is not strictly necessary.