How we collect, use, and protect information when you visit IQ Healthspan. We keep this simple because we collect very little.
📅 Last updated: September 30, 2026The 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. If you sign up for updates or send us a message, the form is stored by Netlify Forms (our host) and used only to send you updates or reply to you. We use Google Analytics to see which pages are read. If you use the AI Longevity Coach, what you type is sent to Anthropic to write the reply, and we keep no copy. Our interactive tools (Bio Age Calculator, Lab Results Interpreter, Dashboard) store your entries in your own browser and never send them to us.
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.
Newsletter sign-ups: When you enter your email address (and, on some forms, your first name) in a sign-up form, it is submitted through Netlify Forms and stored in our Netlify account, together with the page you signed up from. We use it only to send IQ Healthspan research updates. You can ask to be removed at any time, and every email we send will include an unsubscribe link.
Contact form: If you use the contact form, we receive your name, email address, subject and message through Netlify Forms and use them only to read and answer your message.
AI Longevity Coach: When you use the coach, the messages in your current conversation are sent to Anthropic, PBC through its API so that its Claude model can write a reply. We do not store coach conversations or link them to your email address. Please do not type information that identifies you or details of your medical records.
We do not require accounts, and we do not collect passwords, phone numbers or payment information.
Like most websites, we collect certain technical information automatically when you visit:
_ga) to count visits. We do not use advertising cookies. Our interactive tools save your entries with your browser's local storage rather than cookies.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 sign-ups and contact messages are kept in Netlify Forms until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete them. Web server log data is kept by our hosting provider under its standard practices. Google Analytics data is kept by Google according to the data-retention setting on our Analytics property. AI coach conversations are not stored by us.
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.