Last updated: September 25, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains what information guide.lyricalguy.com ("we," "us," or "this site") collects, how it is used, and the choices available to you. Reach us any time at support@guide.lyricalguy.com.
Who We Are
This website, guide.lyricalguy.com, is an independent educational publication. When this policy says “we,” “us,” or “our,” it means the operator of this website. For any privacy question or request, contact us at support@guide.lyricalguy.com.
A Note on Sensitive Topics
This site publishes health information. We want to be clear about what that does and does not mean for your privacy: we do not require an account, we do not ask you to tell us about your health, and we do not build health profiles of our readers. Reading an article here does not tell us anything about you personally.
Information We Collect
Information you give us
If you email us, we receive your address and whatever you include. We use it only to respond. We do not add you to a mailing list without consent, and we never sell, rent, or trade it.
Information collected automatically
Our servers record standard log data on each visit: IP address, browser type and version, operating system, referring page, pages viewed, and date and time. This supports security, troubleshooting, and aggregate traffic analysis.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files placed on your device. This site and its service providers use them to remember preferences, measure traffic, and serve advertising. See our Cookie Policy for detail and controls.
Advertising and Third-Party Vendors
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
- Google uses the DoubleClick DART cookie and similar identifiers in connection with ad serving.
- Other third-party ad networks may serve ads here and may use their own cookies and similar technologies, governed by their own privacy policies.
Your advertising choices
- Opt out of personalized advertising by Google at Google Ads Settings.
- Opt out of many third-party vendors at aboutads.info/choices or optout.networkadvertising.org.
- How Google uses data from sites using its services: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
- Your browser can block or delete cookies at any time. This does not remove ads; it generally makes them less relevant.
Consent in the EEA, UK and Switzerland
Visitors from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are shown a consent message, provided through a Google-certified consent management platform that participates in the IAB Transparency & Consent Framework, before personalized advertising cookies are used. If you do not consent, Google may still serve non-personalized ads, which use cookies only for purposes such as frequency capping, aggregated ad reporting, and combating fraud and abuse. You can reopen the consent message and change your choices at any time using the privacy or cookie settings link on the page.
How Google uses information
Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies and similar identifiers to serve ads on this site. You can learn how Google collects and processes data when you use sites that use its services at How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services, and review Google’s general policy at policies.google.com/privacy. Google’s advertising policies are at policies.google.com/technologies/ads.
Analytics
We may use analytics services to understand in aggregate which articles are read and how visitors arrive. Providers process this under their own privacy policies.
Service Providers We Share Information With
We share limited information only with providers who help us run the site, each under its own privacy terms:
- Web hosting and caching (our hosting provider and its caching software), which process server logs and IP addresses to deliver pages and protect the site.
- Advertising (Google AdSense and the certified ad partners Google works with), which use cookies and device identifiers as described above.
- Analytics, where enabled, which measure aggregate traffic.
- Email, which is used to receive and answer messages sent to support@guide.lyricalguy.com.
- Legal and safety: we may disclose information if required by law, court order, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of this site, our readers, or others.
How We Use Information
- To operate, maintain, and secure the site
- To understand aggregate readership and improve our material
- To respond to messages you send us
- To serve and measure advertising
- To comply with legal obligations and enforce our Terms and Conditions
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not generate or sell health, treatment, insurance, or legal “leads.”
Legal Bases (EEA and UK Visitors)
Where the GDPR applies, we process personal data based on our legitimate interests in operating and securing the site; your consent, where required, for advertising and non-essential cookies; and legal obligations. You have rights of access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, and portability, and may withdraw consent at any time or complain to your supervisory authority. Email support@guide.lyricalguy.com.
California Residents (CCPA/CPRA)
California residents may request to know what personal information is collected and how it is used and disclosed, request deletion, request correction, and not be discriminated against for exercising these rights. We do not sell or share personal information as defined under California law. Email support@guide.lyricalguy.com.
Other U.S. State Privacy Rights
Residents of states with consumer privacy laws, including Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Montana, and others, may have rights to access, correct, delete, or obtain a copy of their personal data, and to opt out of targeted advertising, sale, or profiling. To exercise any of these rights, email support@guide.lyricalguy.com with the subject line “Privacy Request.” We will respond within the time required by applicable law, and you may appeal a decision by replying to our response.
Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
Some browsers send “Do Not Track” signals. There is no common industry standard for responding to them, so this site does not change its behavior in response to them. Where required by law, we treat a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information for targeted advertising for that browser.
International Visitors
This site may be hosted and its service providers may operate in countries other than your own. By using the site, you understand that information may be processed in those countries, where data protection laws may differ from those where you live. Where required, such transfers rely on appropriate safeguards used by our providers.
Data Retention
Server logs are kept only as long as needed for security and troubleshooting. Email is kept as long as needed to handle your inquiry. Request deletion at any time.
Children’s Privacy
This site is intended for adults and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Contact us and we will delete anything received.
Security
We take reasonable measures to protect information collected here. No transmission or storage method is completely secure. Please do not email us health or case information.
External Links
We link to third-party sites, primarily government agencies and nonprofits. We are not responsible for their privacy practices or content.
Changes
We may update this policy; material changes are reflected in the date above. Continued use constitutes acceptance.
Contact
Questions or privacy requests: support@guide.lyricalguy.com.