Privacy Policy
Blok is an independent project built by a single UvA student, not a company with a legal department — so this page says plainly what the site actually does with your data today, and what it is built to do once accounts exist. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the University of Amsterdam.
What this site collects right now
As of this release, Blok has no accounts, no payments, and no study content. There is no sign-up form and nothing to buy yet. What the running site actually sets on your browser is exactly two cookies, and nothing else:
- A theme cookie (
blok_theme), written only when you click a colour theme in the header. It holds one of four fixed theme identifiers and is kept for a year so your choice survives a reload. - A consent cookie (
blok_cookie_consent), written only when you dismiss the notice at the bottom of the page. It records that the notice was shown and dismissed, and nothing else.
Beyond those two cookies, our hosting providers (Vercel for the website, Neon for the database) keep ordinary server request logs as part of running any web service — the kind of access logs any host keeps, not something Blok configures or reads. Blok itself runs no analytics, no advertising, and no tracking pixel of any kind — that absence is not an oversight, it is because this milestone builds no such feature.
What an account will hold
Sign-up is not open yet. When it is, creating an account will store: your email address, whether and when it has been verified, an optional display name, your role (student or admin), your stored colour-theme preference, and the timestamps of when the account was created and last updated. Your password will never be stored in a readable form — only a one-way cryptographic hash of it, using an algorithm designed so the original password cannot be recovered from the hash.
What a purchase will hold
Blok does not take payment yet. When it does, buying an Exam Block Pass or a Year Pass will create an entitlement record holding: which course (or the whole catalog, for a Year Pass) was granted, which product was bought, when access starts and ends, whether it has been revoked, and a reference to the payment. Blok itself never receives or stores your card details — that is handled entirely by the payment provider, which is not even integrated into the site yet.
What study activity will hold
Once you can study a topic, the site will record which topics you opened, when you last viewed each one, and whether you marked it complete — so a dashboard can show you where you left off. No content of what you write or answer is stored beyond that; there is no interactive quiz engine in this milestone.
Why each category is held
Account data exists to give the person who paid access to what they bought. Entitlement data exists so the site can check what you are allowed to read, and for how long. Progress data exists so the dashboard can show you where you left off. The theme cookie exists because you asked for that specific theme by clicking it.
How long data is kept
The theme cookie and the consent cookie each last up to a year from when they are set, or until you clear them. Once accounts exist, an entitlement record is kept after an account is deleted for as long as ordinary financial record-keeping obligations require, with the personal fields of the account anonymised at that point rather than the transaction record being erased outright.
How to have your data erased
To ask a question about this policy or to request that your data be erased, email gabrielnunes3106@gmail.com — the same address linked from the Contact link in the footer of every page.