Legal · effective August 31, 2026

Funding

This page states where the money comes from, which surfaces carry a partner link, and what the money does not reach. Each clause is numbered.

D1Source of funding

This site earns a commission when a reader starts care with a partner seller after following a partner link from here.

That commission is the only revenue on this site. Nothing here is sold, no subscription is offered, and no display advertising is served.

The commission pays for the screening work: reading seller pages, recording evidence, dating records, and re-checking them.

D2The network

Partner relationships run through Katalys, an affiliate network. The network attributes a visit, records a conversion, and pays the commission.

A partner link on this site points at a path on this domain, which redirects to the network. The parameters it appends are described in the privacy notice, clause P8.

The network is paid by the seller. The reader is not part of that transaction.

D3No cost to the reader

A partner link costs the reader nothing. The price is the same price the seller would charge a reader who arrived directly.

No commission is added to a price and no fee is passed on. There is no reader-side charge of any kind on this site.

D4Where a partner link appears

Three surfaces carry a partner link, and all three live on seller records. None appears anywhere else on this site.

The first is the visit link at the foot of a seller's evidence table, on the 29 records whose seller has a partner program. It is labeled a partner link in place, next to the link itself, on every record that carries one. Where one brand runs a separate partner program for a product it sells from its own single-product storefront, that product's link sits directly under the visit link, under the same label, on the one record that has one today (2 links in all).

The second is a panel that can open when you click the visit link on a record whose seller is not a partner. It offers one other seller that is, says in the panel, before the button, that the site earns a commission through it, and adds one dated fact drawn from that seller's own record here. It never rates either seller, never compares them, and the link you clicked stays exactly as it was. It is armed on 549 records, opens at most three times in a visit and once per seller, and where the site cannot build that sentence honestly it does not open at all.

The third is a card in the right-hand column of a seller record, headed “Partner” above the company name, with a sentence saying the site earns a commission on care started through it. It offers the same seller the panel above would offer, so a record either names one partner in both places or in neither, and it carries the same single dated fact from that seller's own record here. Which partner appears moves on every eight hours in a fixed turn through every partner, so none is favored, and it never names the company whose record it sits on or a brand of the same company. It rates nothing and compares nothing.

All three are marked sponsored and nofollow in the page markup, and /go/ is disallowed to crawlers in the site's robots file.

D5Where a partner link never appears

The footer carries no partner link. It carries navigation only, on every page of this site.

The ledger table carries no partner link. Every seller name in it points to that seller's record on this domain.

The criterion pages carry no partner link. The bridge panels that list sellers passing a criterion point to records on this domain and nowhere else.

The Standard, the changelog, the method page and the machine-readable summary carry no partner link. Research vendor records carry none by recorded decision.

The panel described in D4 never opens on a partner's own record, never on a research vendor, and never on a record whose seller has no catalog to link to. Those are the same three conditions in code that decide whether it exists at all, not three separate promises.

D6What compensation does not buy

A commercial relationship does not satisfy a criterion. A criterion is satisfied by published evidence or it is not satisfied at all.

A partner that fails a criterion is recorded as failing it, with the basis and the source stated on the record. Of the 29 partner records in the ledger today, 29 carry at least one FAIL.

No seller reviews a record before it is published. No seller is offered a chance to change a disposition, and no seller can pay to have one changed.

Dispositions are not for sale. That sentence is the whole of the editorial policy on this point.

D7Ledger order

The ledger's default order is alphabetical by seller name. A null does not sit at either end of an alphabetical order, and a name-first default is why.

A reader can switch the Order control to Count of criteria passed, highest first, tied alphabetically. NOT VERIFIED counts toward neither the pass total nor a failure; a record with several unchecked criteria can still land near the bottom of that view on pass count alone, and every row prints its unverified count beside its pass count so the reason is legible rather than read as a failure.

Both orders run identically over partners and non-partners. Partner status is not an input to either sort and has never been one.

Under the Count of criteria passed order, a partner that passes fewer criteria sits below a non-partner that passes more. That is a consequence of the sort, not an exception to it.

D8The Standard is checkable

The criteria are published in full and versioned. Anyone can read them, apply them to a seller, and compare the result with what is recorded here.

Every disposition names its basis and its source. A reader who disagrees can go to the source and check.

That is the guarantee this page can actually offer. An assertion of independence that cannot be checked is worth nothing.

D9Warning letters

An FDA warning letter naming a seller is disclosed on that seller's record, with its date, in the basis for criterion S8.

A letter is disclosed whether or not the seller is a partner. It is never removed from a basis to make a partner record read better.

A letter does not by itself disqualify a seller. Most letters concern marketing and labeling, and S8 fails only where an action halted the business.

The reader is told, and the reader decides. That is the point of disclosing it rather than quietly dropping the seller.

D10Currency of prices and postures

Prices, product ranges, pharmacy relationships and regulatory postures change. A record states what was published on the date it carries.

A record is not a promise about today. Confirm a price on the seller's own site before buying anything.

The method page states how re-checks are dated and what a null means.

D11Reporting an error

Report an error to standards@peptidealliance.org. Name the record and the source that contradicts it.

A report is checked against the source, not against the reporter. A seller's complaint and a reader's complaint are checked the same way.

A confirmed error is corrected with a dated note. A disposition changes when the evidence changes and at no other time.

D12Basis of this disclosure

This page exists to satisfy the Federal Trade Commission's endorsement guides, at 16 CFR Part 255, which require a material connection to be disclosed clearly.

The site-wide disclosure in the footer, the in-place label beside every partner link, and this page are the three places that connection is stated.

Related documents: terms of use, privacy notice, medical disclaimer, and trademarks.