Privacy policy

We collect information in several ways: information you provide directly, information collected automatically, information submitted by vendors, information generated through your use of the Service, and information from third parties.

We use information for the following purposes:

1. To provide, operate, maintain, and improve AminoCatalog.
2. To create and manage user accounts.
3. To authenticate users and secure accounts.
4. To publish, moderate, analyze, and manage reviews, ratings, reports, and other user-generated content.
5. To operate the vendor directory, vendor profiles, vendor dashboards, product catalog listings, stock status, shipping filters, and outbound click tracking.
6. To review, approve, reject, verify, suspend, or remove vendor accounts, listings, badges, or claims.
7. To detect and prevent spam, fake reviews, vendor manipulation, fraud, scraping, abuse, security incidents, and policy violations.
8. To personalize your experience, such as saved peptides, saved vendors, preferences, filters, and account settings.
9. To analyze traffic, search behavior, content performance, vendor performance, conversion patterns, and product usage.
10. To communicate with you about your account, support requests, reviews, vendor applications, policy updates, security alerts, and administrative messages.
11. To send newsletters, product updates, marketing messages, or other optional communications you have asked to receive.
12. To process payments for paid vendor features, if and when paid features are enabled.
13. To enforce our Terms of Service, vendor rules, review policies, and other agreements.
14. To comply with legal obligations, regulatory inquiries, law enforcement requests, subpoenas, court orders, and dispute-resolution obligations.
15. To protect the rights, safety, property, and integrity of AminoCatalog, users, vendors, and the public.
16. To create aggregated, de-identified, or statistical information.

We do not use AminoCatalog account activity to provide medical advice, diagnose conditions, prescribe treatment, determine eligibility for healthcare, or make decisions about insurance, employment, credit, housing, education, or similar eligibility matters.

Some areas of AminoCatalog are public or may become public. Reviews, ratings, display names, profile photos, review metadata, vendor responses, and other user-generated content may be visible to other users, vendors, search engines, or the general public depending on the feature and your settings. Do not post anything that you do not want to be public.

Vendor profiles, vendor descriptions, product listings, stock status, pricing, shipping regions, testing claims, certificates of analysis, vendor responses, and related vendor-submitted information may be visible to users, search engines, or the general public.

What vendors see about reviewers. When you publish a review of a vendor, that vendor can see your public display name, review text, rating, attached photos, and the date of your review. We do not share your account email, real name (if different from your display name), IP address, or other private account details with vendors except where we are required to in order to investigate fraud or review manipulation, resolve a dispute, or comply with law.

We may preserve reviews, moderation history, abuse reports, vendor responses, and dispute records even after account deletion where reasonably necessary for platform integrity, legal compliance, dispute resolution, fraud prevention, or enforcement.

We may share information in the following circumstances.

We use the following third-party service providers to operate AminoCatalog at launch. We update this list as our infrastructure changes.

The MVP does not process payments for peptide sales. AminoCatalog does not sell peptides or research chemicals directly to users.

If we enable paid vendor subscriptions, featured placements, verification programs, advertising, or other paid features, payments will be processed by a third-party payment processor. We do not intend to store full payment card numbers on our own servers. Payment processors may collect payment details, billing information, tax information, transaction records, fraud signals, and related information according to their own terms and privacy policies. We will update this Privacy Policy and the subprocessor list in Section 5 before enabling paid features.

We may send you administrative messages, security alerts, account notices, review notices, vendor application updates, policy updates, and support responses. These are transactional communications, and you cannot opt out of them while maintaining an account.

Transactional emails may include open and click tracking through our email service provider so we can measure deliverability and improve notification quality. You can generally disable image loading in your email client to limit open tracking.

If you subscribe to marketing emails, newsletters, product updates, or similar optional communications, you can unsubscribe using the link in the email or by contacting us. We will still send non-marketing administrative messages.

We use first-party analytics to understand how users find and use AminoCatalog. Analytics help us measure page views, search behavior, vendor profile views, outbound vendor clicks, saved items, review submissions, traffic sources, device information, and general engagement.

We may use affiliate links, sponsored links, referral parameters, or attribution tools to measure traffic sent to vendor websites. This helps us report aggregate performance to vendors and improve the directory. Where a link is sponsored or commercially influenced, we will identify it as such in line with our Terms of Service.

At launch, we do not use third-party advertising, retargeting, or cross-context behavioral advertising. If that changes, we will update this Privacy Policy, provide opt-out controls, and (in California) make the required disclosures in Section 12.

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to operate the Service, maintain accounts, provide vendor features, preserve reviews, enforce policies, resolve disputes, comply with law, prevent fraud, detect abuse, maintain security, and keep business records.

Indicative retention windows at launch:

You may request deletion as described in Section 11, but some information may be retained where permitted or required by law.

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect information. These include access controls, encryption in transit, password hashing (we never store plaintext passwords), authentication tokens, logging, monitoring, backups, security reviews, and limits on internal access. Row-level security in our database restricts each user’s queries to records they are authorized to read.

No website, database, transmission, or storage system is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials and for using a strong, unique password.

Breach notification. If we determine that a security incident has affected your personal information in a way that triggers notice under applicable law, we will notify you and the relevant authorities within the timeframes required by that law.

If you believe your account or information has been compromised, contact us at security@aminocatalog.com.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to:

1. Access the personal information we have about you.
2. Receive a copy of certain personal information in a portable format.
3. Correct inaccurate personal information.
4. Delete certain personal information.
5. Object to or restrict certain processing.
6. Opt out of certain uses of cookies, targeted advertising, sale, sharing, or profiling.
7. Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
8. Appeal a decision we make about a privacy request, where applicable.
9. Lodge a complaint with a privacy or data protection authority.

To make a request, contact us at privacy@aminocatalog.com or use any privacy request tools we make available in your account settings. We aim to respond to verified requests within 30 days. We may extend this period as permitted by applicable law and will notify you if we need additional time.

We may need to verify your identity before responding, typically by confirming information associated with your account. We may deny or limit requests where permitted by law, such as when we need to retain information for security, fraud prevention, legal compliance, dispute resolution, free expression, public information, or platform integrity. If we deny your request you may appeal by replying to our response with the word “appeal” in the subject line.

If you have an account, you may also access, correct, or delete some information directly through account settings.

This Section applies to California residents to the extent the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (collectively, “CCPA”), applies to AminoCatalog.

Residents of certain other U.S. states — including Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Montana, Delaware, Iowa, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Tennessee, Minnesota, and Maryland — may have rights similar to those described in Section 11, including the right to access, correct, delete, obtain a copy of, and opt out of certain processing of their personal information, and (where applicable) to appeal a denial. To exercise these rights, contact us at privacy@aminocatalog.com. Specific rights, deadlines, and exceptions vary by state; we will respond consistent with the law of the state where you reside.

We do not engage in “targeted advertising,” “profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects,” or the “sale” of personal data as those terms are defined under those laws. If that changes, we will update this Privacy Policy and provide the required opt-out controls.

If you are located in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or Switzerland, this Section applies where relevant law applies to our processing.

AminoCatalog is not intended for children or minors. You must be at least 18 years old to use the Service. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a person under 18, we will delete it.

If you believe a minor has provided us information, contact us at privacy@aminocatalog.com.

AminoCatalog discusses peptides and related compounds. Some users may visit the Service because of health, wellness, performance, recovery, weight loss, longevity, cosmetic, research, or personal interests.

We do not ask users to provide medical history, diagnoses, prescriptions, treatment plans, lab results, or other medical records. Do not include private medical details in reviews, comments, support messages, or public areas unless you intentionally choose to do so and understand the risks.

AminoCatalog is not a HIPAA covered entity or business associate solely because you use the Service. Information you submit to AminoCatalog generally is not protected health information under HIPAA. This does not limit any privacy obligations we may have under other applicable laws.

Vendors are independent third parties. If you operate a vendor profile or interact with users through AminoCatalog, you are responsible for complying with privacy, consumer-protection, advertising, health, product, and data-protection laws that apply to your business.

Vendors may not use information obtained through AminoCatalog to spam users, harass reviewers, retaliate against reviewers, scrape data, create unauthorized profiles, conduct unlawful marketing, or circumvent platform privacy controls. Violations may result in suspension or removal from the directory.

If a user leaves AminoCatalog and interacts with a vendor website, the vendor’s own privacy policy and terms apply.

We use automated and manual tools to detect spam, fake reviews, duplicate activity, suspicious accounts, vendor manipulation, scraping, abuse, fraud, security threats, and policy violations.

These tools may consider account activity, hashed IP address, device information, review patterns, timing, text similarity, vendor relationships, reports, and other signals. We may use the results to moderate content, restrict accounts, review vendor activity, protect users, and enforce our policies.

We do not use automated tools to make decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects about users, such as eligibility for credit, employment, housing, insurance, healthcare, or education.

AminoCatalog may link to vendor websites, research publications, regulatory sources, payment processors, social platforms, and other third-party websites or services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third parties. Review their privacy policies before providing information to them.

Some browsers offer “Do Not Track” signals. There is no common industry standard for responding to these signals, and we do not currently respond to them. Where legally required, we honor Global Privacy Control signals for applicable opt-out rights.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we may notify you by posting the updated policy, changing the effective date, sending an email, displaying an in-product notice, or using another reasonable method.

Your continued use of AminoCatalog after the updated Privacy Policy becomes effective means you acknowledge the updated policy.

For privacy questions or requests, contact us at: