LongevityBeginners

Privacy policy

Effective date: November 9, 2026

LongevityBeginners Media (“we”, “us”) runs LongevityBeginners. Contact: [email protected]. This page is written for everyone, wherever you live: it covers the US (including California and other state privacy laws), the UK and the EU/EEA.

The short version

  • You can read this site without giving us any personal information. There are no accounts and no ads.
  • We don’t sell or share your personal information, and we don’t use it for targeted advertising.
  • We honor the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal from your browser.
  • Retailers we link to are separate companies with their own privacy practices and cookies.

What we collect

  • Nothing, by default, when you just read. Like any website, our hosting provider handles technical request data (such as your IP address and browser type) to deliver the pages and keep the site secure. Our host is Cloudflare, which keeps this data only briefly for security and performance.
  • Visitor statistics, only if we turn them on. We don’t use analytics today. If we add it, it will be a cookieless tool, and we’ll update this page first.
  • Choices stored in your browser. Two small local-storage entries, not cookies and never sent to us: ls-consent (your cookie choice) and ls-region (US or UK shops in “where to buy” boxes). See the cookie policy.
  • Your email address, only if you sign up for our newsletter (not available yet).
  • Messages you send us, such as your email and what you wrote, so we can reply.
  • Affiliate links. Some links to retailers earn us a commission. When you click one, the retailer and its affiliate network may set their own cookies and tell us a purchase happened. We don’t ask for your name or payment details.

We don’t knowingly collect sensitive personal information, such as health data. Please don’t send us any.

Why we use it, and our legal bases

If you’re in the EU, EEA or UK, the law requires a legal basis. Ours are:

  • Consent for the newsletter and for optional analytics where consent is required. You can withdraw it at any time (unsubscribe link, or “Cookie settings” in the footer).
  • Legitimate interests for replying to your messages, keeping the site secure and understanding in a basic way how it is used.
  • Legal obligations where the law requires us to keep or share information.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you can ask us to:

  • tell you what we hold about you, and give you a copy;
  • correct it, delete it, or limit how we use it;
  • move it to another service, or object to some uses (EU/UK/EEA);
  • stop any sale, sharing or targeted advertising (US states; we do none of these, so there is nothing to opt out of);
  • treat you the same whether or not you use these rights.

Email [email protected]. We may need to confirm it’s you, and an authorized agent can ask on your behalf. We aim to reply within 30 days (45 for some US requests). If you’re unhappy with our answer, US residents in some states can appeal by replying to us, and everyone can complain to their local data protection authority (in the UK, the ICO).

California and other US states

In the last 12 months we haven’t sold or shared (as those terms are used in the CCPA/CPRA) any personal information, and we haven’t disclosed it for targeted advertising. The only categories we may collect are identifiers you give us (such as an email address) and aggregate, cookieless usage statistics if we enable them. We honor Global Privacy Control as a request to opt out of sale and sharing, and, on this site, as a “Reject non-essential” choice.

Who we share it with, and transfers abroad

We share information only with service providers that help us run the site (hosting, email and, if enabled, analytics), and only as needed for that. Our providers are Cloudflare (hosting, security and email forwarding) and, if we turn analytics on, the analytics provider named in our cookie policy. Those providers may process data in other countries, including the United States. Where the law requires it, we rely on safeguards such as adequacy decisions or standard contractual clauses.

How long we keep it

  • Messages: only as long as needed to answer you and keep a reasonable record, and no longer than 12 months.
  • Newsletter email: until you unsubscribe.
  • Server logs: we don't keep our own. Cloudflare handles request data as described in its own privacy policy.
  • Analytics (if enabled): aggregate statistics only.

Children

This site isn’t directed at anyone under 16, and we don’t knowingly collect personal information from them. If you think a child has sent us information, tell us and we’ll delete it.

Changes and contact

We’ll update this page if our practices change, and change the effective date above. Questions: [email protected]. This site gives general information, not medical advice. See our medical disclaimer.