Last updated: July 1, 2026
GuyHealth (“GuyHealth”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) operates guy.lyricalguy.com (the “Site”), an educational publication about United States men’s health — preventive care and screenings, heart and blood-pressure basics, prostate health, testosterone and hormone education, metabolic and weight health, men’s mental-health awareness, sleep and everyday habits, and how insurance and coverage work for men. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, why we collect it, how advertising and analytics partners such as Google use cookies on this Site, the choices you have, and how we handle privacy in a health-related context. The Site publishes general education only; it does not provide medical advice, and it is not a healthcare provider, insurer, or covered entity under HIPAA.
By using the Site, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the Site. This policy works together with our Terms of Service, Medical Disclaimer, and Editorial Policy.
1. Information We Collect
- Information you provide to us: if you use our contact form or email us, we collect the name, email address, and the contents of the message you choose to send so that we can read it and reply. If comments are enabled on an article and you leave one, we collect the name, email address, and comment text you enter, along with your IP address and browser user-agent string to help us detect and filter spam.
- Automatically collected data: like virtually all websites, our servers and service providers may automatically log your IP address, browser type and version, operating system and device type, language settings, the page or search that referred you, the pages you view on the Site, and the date and time of your visit. This information is used for security, troubleshooting, load balancing, abuse prevention, and aggregate analytics.
- Cookies and similar technologies: small files and identifiers stored on your device that support core functionality, remember limited preferences (such as your name on repeat comments), measure aggregate traffic, and — through our advertising and analytics partners — help serve, cap, and measure advertising. See Sections 3, 4, and 5.
We do not ask for, and you should never send us, sensitive personal health information. We do not collect medical records, diagnoses, test results, prescription details, or insurance-account numbers. See our “Health Information” note in Section 13.
2. How We Use Your Information
- To read and respond to messages you send through the contact form or by email.
- To publish, display, and moderate comments where enabled, and to filter spam and abuse.
- To operate, maintain, secure, debug, and improve the Site and its articles.
- To understand, in aggregate and without identifying you personally, how readers discover and use our men’s-health content — for example, which screening explainers are read most.
- To display advertising, which is what keeps our educational articles free to read.
- To comply with applicable laws, respond to lawful requests, and detect, prevent, or investigate fraud, security incidents, or abuse.
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not use contact-form submissions or comment email addresses for marketing, newsletters, or any lead-generation purpose.
3. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Cookies are small text files stored on your device by your browser. Similar technologies include pixels, web beacons, local storage, and device identifiers. We and our partners use both first-party cookies (set by GuyHealth) and third-party cookies (set by services such as Google) for the following broad purposes:
- Strictly necessary: to load pages, balance server load, and protect against abuse.
- Preference: to remember limited choices, such as pre-filling your name for repeat comments.
- Analytics: to measure aggregate, non-identifying traffic and content performance (see Section 5).
- Advertising: to serve, frequency-cap, and measure ads, including — where permitted — personalized ads (see Section 4).
You can control or delete cookies at any time through your browser settings, and most browsers let you block third-party cookies or clear existing ones. Disabling cookies may affect some conveniences, but you will still be able to read every article on the Site. On mobile devices, you can also reset or limit your advertising identifier through your operating-system settings.
4. Google AdSense and Advertising
GuyHealth is an independent publication supported by display advertising, primarily Google AdSense, a third-party advertising service provided by Google LLC. Advertising keeps our content free. The following disclosures describe how advertising on this Site works:
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this Site and/or other sites on the internet.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies — including the DoubleClick / DART cookie — enables Google and its partners to serve personalized ads to users based on their visits to this Site and/or other sites on the internet.
- You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings (https://www.google.com/settings/ads). If you opt out, you may still see ads, but they will be less relevant to you.
- You may also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance page at www.aboutads.info/choices, and, in Europe, the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance page at www.youronlinechoices.eu.
- For more detail on how Google uses information from sites and apps that use its services, see Google’s partner-sites policy at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Because this is a health-related site, advertising is served as standard display inventory; we do not share the specific articles you read as health data with advertisers, and we do not build health profiles of our readers. Advertisers do not see, approve, or influence our editorial content, as described in our Editorial Policy.
EEA, UK, and consent: if you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, or another region that requires consent for advertising and analytics cookies, ads on this Site are served in line with applicable consent requirements (including the EU General Data Protection Regulation and Google’s consent policies). In those regions, a consent management prompt may appear before personalized ads are served, allowing you to accept, reject, or manage advertising and analytics cookies. You may change or withdraw your consent at any time through that prompt or your browser settings, and withdrawing consent does not affect processing that occurred before you withdrew it.
5. Analytics
We use Google analytics tools (which may include Google Analytics, possibly via Google Site Kit) to understand aggregate, non-identifying trends — for example, which men’s-health explainers readers find most useful and how visitors reach the Site. These tools may set their own cookies and process data such as truncated IP addresses and page views. You can opt out of Google Analytics across sites by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout). We use analytics only in aggregate and do not use it to identify individual readers.
6. Comments and Embedded Content
If comments are enabled and you leave one, your comment and its metadata are retained so that follow-up comments can be recognized and displayed. An anonymized string created from your email address (a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to check whether you use it; after approval, your profile picture, if any, is visible to others in the context of your comment. The Gravatar service is operated by Automattic, and its privacy policy is available at automattic.com/privacy. Articles may occasionally embed content from other sites (such as videos or reference widgets); embedded content behaves as if you had visited the other website directly, and that third-party site may collect data about you, use cookies, and track your interaction with the embedded content.
7. Third-Party Links
Our articles link out to authoritative, credentialed sources — for example the CDC, NIH and MedlinePlus, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the FDA, Medicare.gov and HealthCare.gov, the Mayo Clinic, the Urology Care Foundation, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the American Cancer Society. We provide these links for education. We are not responsible for the content, accuracy, or privacy practices of any third-party website, and a link is not an endorsement. Please review the privacy policy of any external site you visit.
8. Data Retention
We keep personal information only as long as necessary for the purpose it was collected. Contact-form and email messages are kept only as long as needed to handle your request and for a reasonable period afterward for recordkeeping. Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely so that discussion threads remain readable, unless you ask us to delete them. Server logs are retained for a limited period for security and troubleshooting. Aggregate analytics data is retained according to the analytics provider’s configured retention settings.
9. Your Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights over your personal information. We honor these rights regardless of where you are located, to the extent applicable law requires.
- EEA / UK (GDPR and UK GDPR): you may have the right to access the personal data we hold about you; to request correction of inaccurate data; to request deletion (“right to be forgotten”); to restrict or object to certain processing; to data portability; and to withdraw consent for consent-based processing (such as advertising cookies) at any time. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.
- California (CCPA / CPRA): you may have the right to know what personal information we collect and how it is used; to request access to or deletion of that information; to correct inaccurate information; to opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of personal information; and to not be discriminated against for exercising your rights.
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not “sell” or “share” it as those terms are defined under California law for cross-context behavioral advertising in exchange for money. Where you can exercise choices over advertising cookies, the opt-out tools in Section 4 and your browser/consent controls are the primary mechanisms. To make any privacy request, email us at support@lyricalguy.com or use our contact page. We may need to verify your identity before acting, and we will respond within the timeframe required by applicable law.
10. Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect the limited data we hold, including transport encryption (HTTPS) for the Site. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. You share information with us at your own risk, and you should never transmit sensitive health information to us (see Section 13).
11. Children’s Privacy
GuyHealth is written for adult men (and the partners and caregivers who support them) and is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 (or under 16 where a higher age of digital consent applies). If you believe a child has provided us personal information, please contact us at support@lyricalguy.com and we will delete it promptly.
12. International Data Transfers
The Site is operated for a United States audience, and our service providers may process data in the United States and other countries. If you access the Site from outside the United States, you understand that your information may be transferred to and processed in countries whose data-protection laws may differ from those of your country. Where required, transfers are made using appropriate safeguards.
13. Health Information — Important
GuyHealth publishes educational content only. We are not a doctor, clinic, hospital, pharmacy, insurer, or HIPAA-covered entity, and using the Site does not create a doctor–patient relationship. We do not collect, store, or maintain medical records, lab results, diagnoses, prescriptions, or insurance-claim details. Please do not send us sensitive personal health information — such as your medical history, test values, medications, or details about a specific diagnosis — through the contact form, email, or comments. If you have a personal medical or coverage question, talk with a licensed clinician or your insurer; see our Medical Disclaimer. Any general message you do choose to send is handled as ordinary contact information under this policy, not as protected health information.
14. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technology, or the law. The “Last updated” date at the top of this page always reflects the most recent revision. Material changes will be reflected here, and your continued use of the Site after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.
15. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, your data, or your privacy rights, email us at support@lyricalguy.com or use our contact page. Our mailing address is: GuyHealth — Mailing address available on request via support@lyricalguy.com.