diff --git a/mobile/android/base/android-services-files.mk b/mobile/android/base/android-services-files.mk
index 59766da508c..ece3035d2df 100644
--- a/mobile/android/base/android-services-files.mk
+++ b/mobile/android/base/android-services-files.mk
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ SYNC_JAVA_FILES := \
   background/healthreport/HealthReportProvider.java \
   background/healthreport/HealthReportStorage.java \
   background/healthreport/HealthReportUtils.java \
+  background/healthreport/ProfileInformationCache.java \
   sync/AlreadySyncingException.java \
   sync/CollectionKeys.java \
   sync/CommandProcessor.java \
diff --git a/mobile/android/base/background/healthreport/ProfileInformationCache.java b/mobile/android/base/background/healthreport/ProfileInformationCache.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..430dcf50f05
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mobile/android/base/background/healthreport/ProfileInformationCache.java
@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
+/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+package org.mozilla.gecko.background.healthreport;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
+import java.util.Scanner;
+
+import org.json.JSONException;
+import org.json.JSONObject;
+import org.mozilla.gecko.background.common.log.Logger;
+import org.mozilla.gecko.background.healthreport.EnvironmentBuilder.ProfileInformationProvider;
+
+/**
+ * There are some parts of the FHR environment that can't be readily computed
+ * without a running Gecko -- add-ons, for example. In order to make this
+ * information available without launching Gecko, we persist it on Fennec
+ * startup. This class is the notepad in which we write.
+ *
+ * TODO: add-ons.
+ */
+public class ProfileInformationCache implements ProfileInformationProvider {
+  private static final String LOG_TAG = "GeckoProfileInfo";
+  private static final String CACHE_FILE = "profile_info_cache.json";
+
+  protected boolean initialized = false;
+  protected boolean needsWrite = false;
+
+  protected final File file;
+
+  private volatile boolean blocklistEnabled = true;
+  private volatile boolean telemetryEnabled = false;
+  private volatile long profileCreationTime = 0;
+
+  public ProfileInformationCache(String profilePath) {
+    file = new File(profilePath + File.separator + CACHE_FILE);
+    Logger.info(LOG_TAG, "Using " + file.getAbsolutePath() + " for profile information cache.");
+  }
+
+  public synchronized void beginInitialization() {
+    initialized = false;
+    needsWrite = true;
+    profileCreationTime = 0;
+  }
+
+  public JSONObject toJSON() {
+    JSONObject object = new JSONObject();
+    try {
+      object.put("blocklist", blocklistEnabled);
+      object.put("telemetry", telemetryEnabled);
+      object.put("profileCreated", profileCreationTime);
+    } catch (JSONException e) {
+      // There isn't much we can do about this.
+      // Let's just quietly muffle.
+      return null;
+    }
+    return object;
+  }
+
+  private void fromJSON(JSONObject object) throws JSONException {
+    blocklistEnabled = object.getBoolean("blocklist");
+    telemetryEnabled = object.getBoolean("telemetry");
+    profileCreationTime = object.getLong("profileCreated");
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Call this <b>on a background thread</b> when you're done adding things.
+   * @throws IOException if there was a problem serializing or writing the cache to disk.
+   */
+  public synchronized void completeInitialization() throws IOException {
+    initialized = true;
+    if (!needsWrite) {
+      Logger.debug(LOG_TAG, "No write needed.");
+      return;
+    }
+
+    JSONObject object = toJSON();
+    if (object == null) {
+      throw new IOException("Couldn't serialize JSON.");
+    }
+
+    Logger.info(LOG_TAG, "Writing profile information to " + file.getAbsolutePath());
+    FileOutputStream stream = new FileOutputStream(file);
+    OutputStreamWriter writer = new OutputStreamWriter(stream, Charset.forName("UTF-8"));
+    try {
+      writer.append(object.toString());
+      needsWrite = false;
+    } finally {
+      writer.close();
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Call this if you're interested in reading.
+   *
+   * You should be doing so on a background thread.
+   *
+   * @return true if this object was initialized correctly.
+   */
+  public synchronized boolean restoreUnlessInitialized() {
+    if (initialized) {
+      return true;
+    }
+
+    if (!file.exists()) {
+      return false;
+    }
+
+    // One-liner for file reading in Java. So sorry.
+    Logger.info(LOG_TAG, "Restoring ProfileInformationCache from " + file.getAbsolutePath());
+    Scanner scanner = null;
+    try {
+      scanner = new Scanner(file, "UTF-8");
+      final String contents = scanner.useDelimiter("\\A").next();
+      fromJSON(new JSONObject(contents));
+      initialized = true;
+      return true;
+    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
+      return false;
+    } catch (JSONException e) {
+      return false;
+    } finally {
+      if (scanner != null) {
+        scanner.close();
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  private void ensureInitialized() {
+    if (!initialized) {
+      throw new IllegalStateException("Not initialized.");
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public boolean isBlocklistEnabled() {
+    ensureInitialized();
+    return blocklistEnabled;
+  }
+
+  public void setBlocklistEnabled(boolean value) {
+    Logger.debug(LOG_TAG, "Setting blocklist enabled: " + value);
+    blocklistEnabled = value;
+    needsWrite = true;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public boolean isTelemetryEnabled() {
+    ensureInitialized();
+    return telemetryEnabled;
+  }
+
+  public void setTelemetryEnabled(boolean value) {
+    Logger.debug(LOG_TAG, "Setting telemetry enabled: " + value);
+    telemetryEnabled = value;
+    needsWrite = true;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public long getProfileCreationTime() {
+    ensureInitialized();
+    return profileCreationTime;
+  }
+
+  public void setProfileCreationTime(long value) {
+    Logger.debug(LOG_TAG, "Setting profile creation time: " + value);
+    profileCreationTime = value;
+    needsWrite = true;
+  }
+}
diff --git a/mobile/android/services/java-sources.mn b/mobile/android/services/java-sources.mn
index e5ac526064a..5d51dfafd42 100644
--- a/mobile/android/services/java-sources.mn
+++ b/mobile/android/services/java-sources.mn
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ background/healthreport/HealthReportGenerator.java
 background/healthreport/HealthReportProvider.java
 background/healthreport/HealthReportStorage.java
 background/healthreport/HealthReportUtils.java
+background/healthreport/ProfileInformationCache.java
 sync/AlreadySyncingException.java
 sync/CollectionKeys.java
 sync/CommandProcessor.java