Legal
Effective August 2026 · last reviewed September 2026
This notice describes the handling of information by Peptide America, published at peptideamerica.org, and covers that domain and nothing else. It was written against the site as it stood on the date above: a set of pre-rendered reference pages, an analytics measurement tag, a link redirector, and an editorial mailbox. It does not cover a supplier, a manufacturer, an agency database, or any other destination a reader reaches by following a link away from here; each of those publishes its own notice, and this one has no authority over it.
The habit that governs the rest of this reference governs this page as well. Each statement below describes a mechanism that exists in the site’s source on the date given. Where a practice is absent, that absence is stated rather than implied.
Three streams of information reach this publication, and there is no fourth.
Measurement. Google Analytics 4 records a page view for each page opened: the page address and title, the referring address where the browser sends one, a coarse geographic region derived from a truncated network address, the browser and device family, the language, and a randomly generated identifier held in a first-party cookie so that several page views in one sitting are counted as one visit rather than several. The measurement configuration sets IP anonymization, so the full network address is not retained for reporting.
Delivery logs. Pages are served by a content delivery network, which keeps the ordinary operational record any web server keeps: the requested address, the time, a status code, a network address, and a user-agent string. Those records exist to deliver pages, absorb automated traffic, and diagnose faults; they are produced by the hosting provider rather than assembled by this publication, and they are not joined to the measurement stream or to any reader profile.
Correspondence. The mailbox at editor@peptideamerica.org receives whatever a correspondent chooses to put in a message. A correction, a sourcing question, or a privacy request arrives with an email address attached because email works that way; nothing more is asked for, and nothing is added to a mailing list.
There are no accounts on this site and no way to create one; there is no password, no profile, and no saved reading history. No page carries a form, so no name, address, telephone number, or date of birth is ever submitted here.
No health information is collected. This publication asks nothing about a reader’s conditions, prescriptions, weight, laboratory values, or care, and it maintains no record that any particular person read any particular monograph. A molecule page is a regulatory record, and reading one tells this site nothing about the reader beyond a page count.
No payment is taken. There is no checkout, no cart, and no card processor, because nothing on this site is for sale to a reader. There is no advertising pixel, no remarketing tag, no conversion pixel belonging to a social platform, and no data broker integration or audience-enrichment service of any kind.
Google LLC operates the measurement service and processes the measurement stream on this publication’s instructions. The tag is emitted into the page head at build time, and the consent state is declared before the measurement library initializes, not after. As shipped, the declared defaults are: advertising storage denied, advertising user data denied, advertising personalization denied, analytics storage granted.
Those four values are the whole posture, and the first three are denied for every reader, on every page, at all times, with no path by which they become granted. The consequence is worth stating plainly: measurement data from this site is not available for advertising audiences, and this site builds none.
Partner links on this site do not point straight at the supplier. They point at a path on this domain of the form /go/ followed by a short slug, which answers with a temporary redirect to a tracking address operated by Katalys, the affiliate network through which this publication’s partner programs run. Katalys receives the click and passes the reader on to the supplier.
The redirect address carries four parameters and no others: an offer identifier for the program, an affiliate identifier for this publication, a source value naming this site, and a sub-identifier naming the link that was clicked. None of the four describes the reader. The redirector reads no cookie, writes no cookie, and stores nothing; it is a lookup from slug to destination that fails to a 404 when the slug is unknown. Because the hop is temporary rather than permanent, nothing caches it, and because search engines are told not to crawl the path, it exists only for readers.
What Katalys and the supplier do with the click is governed by their notices, not by this one. The commercial arrangement behind those links is described on the funding page.
This publication is written for readers in the United States, where privacy law is built on an opt-out rather than a prior-consent model. Measurement therefore runs from the first page view, a banner says so on arrival, and a working exit is offered on that banner and again below. The alternative — a gate that must be dismissed before a regulatory record can be read — collects a click and changes nothing about what is measured, and is not used here.
Two browser signals are honored automatically. Where a browser sends Global Privacy Control, or where it reports Do Not Track enabled, the page issues a consent update denying analytics storage before measurement is configured; no action by the reader is required, and no notice is shown. That behavior was added to the page head on the date above and applies to every page.
Analytics is on for this browser. Opting out takes effect immediately, on this page.
The control above does three things at once, on the page it is clicked on rather than the next one: it writes the opt-out flag to this browser’s local storage, it issues a consent update denying analytics storage so no further measurement is recorded, and it expires the _ga cookies already set, since denying consent stops future writes but does not remove what exists. It applies to this browser on this device only, and it is undone by clearing site data.
Browser-wide alternatives work independently of this site: Google publishes a browser add-on that disables its measurement library everywhere, most browsers offer a setting that blocks third-party or all cookies, and several enable Global Privacy Control, which this site reads as described above.
Personal information is not sold, and it is not shared for cross-context behavioral advertising, as those terms are defined by California law. There is no exchange of reader information for money or other valuable consideration, there is no advertising exchange or identity graph on this domain, and there is no arrangement under which a third party may use anything measured here to target advertising elsewhere. Because there is no such activity, there is nothing for a “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link to switch off; the analytics control above is the complete set of choices this site can offer.
Residents of California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and the other states that have enacted comparable consumer privacy statutes hold rights over personal information a business holds about them: to know what is held and how it is used, to obtain a copy, to have it corrected, to have it deleted, to limit certain uses, and not to be treated worse for asking. Those rights are honored here to the extent this publication holds anything to which they attach.
The honest scope should be set out before the mechanism. This site holds no account, no profile, and no identified record of any reader; the measurement stream is pseudonymous and is not linked to a name, and the only file bearing a real identity is an email a correspondent chose to send. A request will therefore usually be answered with a description of what exists rather than a copy of a dossier, because no dossier exists.
Mechanism. There is no rights portal, no ticketing system, and no web form on this site; building one would mean collecting identity information the site otherwise never touches. Requests are made by email to editor@peptideamerica.org, are acknowledged when received, and are answered within the period the requester’s state law allows. Naming the right being exercised and the state of residence makes the answer faster.
Verification. A request is verified by correspondence with the address it came from. Because no identified record is held, matching a request to a record is generally impossible; where that is the case, the answer says so and no further identity documents are demanded. Additional identifying information is never requested for the sole purpose of building a file on a requester.
Authorized agents. An agent may submit a request on a consumer’s behalf where the applicable state statute allows it, provided the message includes written authorization from the consumer; the consumer may be asked to confirm the authorization directly.
Appeals. Where a request is refused and the requester’s state provides a right of appeal, that refusal will say so and the appeal is made by replying to the same address; the reply names the outcome and, where the state requires it, the way to contact that state’s attorney general.
This publication is written for adults and is not directed to children. It is not designed to appeal to children, carries no child-directed content or features, and knowingly collects no information from anyone under 18. Because the site has no accounts and no forms, it has no mechanism by which a child could submit personal information. Where it becomes known that information from a child under 13 has been received through the editorial mailbox, that message is deleted; a parent or guardian who believes such a message was sent may write to the address above and it will be removed.
Measurement records are retained by the analytics processor under the property’s configured retention window and are then deleted by that processor on its schedule; aggregate reporting derived from them — page counts and the like — carries no identifier and is kept as an editorial record of what readers use. Delivery logs are retained by the hosting provider for the short operational window that provider sets. Correspondence is kept for as long as the exchange is a useful part of the editorial record — a reported error and its correction are worth keeping, since a dated correction is part of how this reference works — and is deleted on request.
The posture here should be described accurately rather than reassuringly. This is a statically generated site: the pages are built ahead of time and served as files over HTTPS by a commercial hosting platform, with no database, no application server holding reader records, and no store of personal information to breach. Automated traffic to the redirector is challenged at the network edge. Administrative access to the repository and the hosting account is limited to the editor.
Those measures reduce exposure by removing the thing usually exposed; they are not a guarantee. No method of transmission over the internet is completely secure, and an email in transit is the least secure part of this system — which is a reason not to send health information to the editorial mailbox.
Monographs cite agency documents, journal articles, and manufacturer labeling, and partner links reach suppliers through the redirector described above. Following any of those links puts a reader on a site this publication does not operate, whose collection practices are its own; a citation is a pointer to a source, not an endorsement of that source’s privacy practices, and this notice stops at the domain boundary.
This is a reference to United States regulatory status, written for readers in the United States, and the information described here is processed there. It is not offered to readers elsewhere, and it is not built to satisfy the prior-consent requirements that apply in other jurisdictions. A reader outside the United States who reads it anyway is reading a United States publication under United States conditions, and may use the controls above like anyone else.
A notice without a date is not a notice. This one carries an effective date and a last-reviewed date at the top, and both change when the text changes; a revision that narrows what is collected or adds a control takes effect on publication, and a revision that widens collection will say what widened and when. The dates are the record, and the same rule applies here as applies to a regulatory status elsewhere on this site: a statement read without its date is read incorrectly.
Privacy questions, rights requests, and corrections to this page: editor@peptideamerica.org. The funding arrangement behind partner links is described on the funding page; the conditions of use are on the terms page; the limits of what this publication is are on the medical disclaimer.