How we collect, use, and protect information when you visit IQ Healthspan. We keep this simple because we collect very little.
📅 Last updated: April 2025The short version: IQ Healthspan does not sell your data, does not run advertising, and does not share your personal information with third parties for marketing purposes. If you subscribe to our newsletter, we store your email address to send you that newsletter. Our interactive tools (Bio Age Calculator, Lab Results Interpreter, Dashboard) store data locally in your browser — none of it is transmitted to our servers. That is the substance of our privacy practices.
IQ Healthspan is an independent health education website operated by Derek Giordano. We are based in the United States. Our website is located at iqhealthspan.com.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at privacy@iqhealthspan.com.
Email address (newsletter subscribers): If you subscribe to the IQ Healthspan newsletter or enter your email in any of the subscription forms on this site, we collect and store your email address. We use this solely to send you the newsletter you requested. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in any email we send.
We do not currently require account creation for any feature of this website. No username, password, name, phone number, or payment information is collected through our standard site operations.
Like most websites, we collect certain technical information automatically when you visit:
Several of our tools — including the Personal Longevity Dashboard, the Biological Age Calculator, the Lab Results Interpreter, and the Longevity Stack Builder — store data locally in your browser using localStorage. This means:
Because this data never leaves your device, it is not subject to a data breach on our end. The privacy and security of this data depends on the security of your own device and browser.
We use the information we collect for the following purposes:
We do not use your information for advertising, do not sell it to third parties, and do not use it to build profiles for marketing purposes.
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information. We may share limited information in the following circumstances:
We do not share your information with advertisers, data brokers, supplement companies, or any other commercial third party for their marketing use.
If you subscribe to the IQ Healthspan newsletter:
Newsletter email addresses are retained until you unsubscribe or request deletion. Web server log data is typically retained for 30–90 days by our hosting provider per their standard practices. Analytics data is retained in aggregated, anonymized form.
Data stored locally in your browser by our tools has no expiry date — it persists until you delete it using your browser settings or the tool's built-in clear function.
Depending on where you are located, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, including:
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at privacy@iqhealthspan.com. We will respond within 30 days. Note that because our interactive tools store data only in your browser, we have no access to that data and cannot fulfill deletion requests for it — you must delete it through your browser settings or the tool's clear function.
California residents (CCPA): California law grants additional rights including the right to know what categories of personal information are collected, the right to opt out of the sale of personal information (we do not sell personal information), and the right to non-discrimination for exercising privacy rights.
EU/EEA residents (GDPR): If you are located in the European Union or European Economic Area, you have additional rights under the General Data Protection Regulation. Our lawful basis for processing newsletter email addresses is your explicit consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR). You may withdraw this consent at any time by unsubscribing.
IQ Healthspan is not directed at children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe we have inadvertently collected information from a child under 13, please contact us at privacy@iqhealthspan.com and we will promptly delete it.
We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect the information we hold. Our website is served over HTTPS. Our hosting provider (Netlify) maintains industry-standard security practices. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Because our interactive tools store data locally in your browser rather than on our servers, the primary security consideration for that data is the security of your own device.
Our website contains links to third-party websites, including research journals, laboratory services, and other health resources. This Privacy Policy applies only to IQ Healthspan. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit through links on our site.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. For material changes, we will provide more prominent notice, such as a notification on the site or an email to newsletter subscribers. Your continued use of the site after changes become effective constitutes your acceptance of the revised policy.
Contact us at privacy@iqhealthspan.com. We typically respond within 2–3 business days. For urgent privacy concerns, please include "URGENT" in your subject line.