Affiliate Terms
Effective date: The date your application is approved as a Pure Peptide Affiliate.
Operator: Pure Peptide (“Pure Peptide”, “we”, “us”, “our”)
Website: purepeptide.co
Jurisdiction: Canada
Product classification: Research Use Only (“RUO”). Not for human or animal consumption.
Agreement
This is a binding agreement between Pure Peptide and you (the “Affiliate”) governing your participation in the Pure Peptide Affiliate Program (the “Program”). By accepting these Terms you agree to be bound by them.
Definitions
“Affiliate Account”: your account on our affiliate platform.
“Affiliate Channel”: any digital property you operate where you promote Pure Peptide.
“Approved Asset Pack”: the brand and creative assets we provide via the Affiliate Account.
“Confidential Information”: non-public information shared with you by Pure Peptide, including commission tiers, traffic data, supplier identities, and unannounced product information.
“Content”: any post, video, story, reel, livestream, blog, email, podcast, comment, message, or other communication you publish that references Pure Peptide, our products, our brand, or links to our website.
“Material Connection”: any commercial relationship, payment, free product, discount, gifting, or other consideration of value you receive from Pure Peptide.
“RUO”: Research Use Only. Products are sold for in-vitro research and are not for human or animal consumption.
“Health Canada”: the department of the Government of Canada responsible for federal health regulation, including drug and natural health product authorization.
“Competition Bureau”: the Canadian federal law-enforcement agency that administers the Competition Act, including its misleading-advertising provisions.
“FDA”: the Food and Drugs Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. F-27, and its regulations (including the Food and Drug Regulations, C.R.C., c. 870).
“CASL”: Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation, S.C. 2010, c. 23.
Eligibility
To participate you must:
(a) have reached the age of majority in your province or territory of residence (and in any event be at least 18) and be able to enter a binding contract; (b) operate at least one Affiliate Channel with at least 10,000 real, organic followers or subscribers; (c) not be an employee, contractor, or immediate family member of an employee or contractor of Pure Peptide; (d) not hold yourself out as a regulated healthcare professional in connection with our products (see clause 6.5); and (e) not be subject to any current Health Canada, Competition Bureau, provincial regulator, Ad Standards, FTC, FDA (US), or comparable regulator enforcement action.
We may decline or terminate any application or account in our sole discretion.
Acceptance, Account & Term
4.1 You accept these Terms by ticking the “I agree” box during application or by using your unique referral code or link, whichever occurs first.
4.2 You are responsible for the accuracy of your Affiliate Account information, the security of your login credentials, and all activity occurring under your account.
4.3 This agreement commences on acceptance and continues until terminated under clause 18. Either party may terminate without cause on fourteen (14) days’ written notice. Pure Peptide may terminate immediately for cause as set out in clause 18.2.
4.4 You are an independent contractor. Nothing in these Terms creates an employment, agency, partnership, joint venture, or franchise relationship. You are solely responsible for all federal and provincial taxes on your commissions, including income tax and, where applicable, GST/HST. If you are registered for GST/HST, you must provide your registration number before any payout is issued; commissions may be reported on a T4A or other applicable information slip.
Commission
5.1 Commercial terms. Your commercial terms are as set out in your individual Affiliate Program offer (your “Affiliate Deal”). All commissions are calculated net of GST/HST and provincial sales taxes, shipping, returns, refunds, and chargebacks.
5.2 Bonuses. We may offer tier uplifts, performance bonuses, and product gifting at our discretion, communicated through your Affiliate Account.
5.3 Tracking. Use only the unique referral link and discount code issued through your Affiliate Account. Do not share, sub-license, or post your code to coupon-aggregator sites, browser extensions, or deal-stacking forums. Sales generated through unauthorized distribution are not commissionable and may trigger termination.
5.4 Pricing. We set product pricing. You must not offer or imply any discount, refund, free gift, or other inducement that we have not authorized in writing. All price representations must comply with the Competition Act’s deceptive-marketing provisions, including the prohibitions on drip pricing and false ordinary-price claims.
Content Rules
These are the only hard rules. Within them, create freely.
6.1 Present products as research compounds. Pure Peptide products are sold as RUO research compounds. They hold no Drug Identification Number (DIN) or Natural Product Number (NPN) and are not authorized for sale as drugs or natural health products in Canada.
6.2 Hard prohibitions. You must not, in any Content:
(a) instruct, demonstrate, or describe how a person should reconstitute, dose, inject, or administer the products; (b) compare the products to, or imply equivalence with, any branded prescription medicine (including Ozempic®, Wegovy®, Mounjaro®, Zepbound®, Saxenda®, or any other GLP-1 receptor agonist or drug authorized by Health Canada) — note that advertising prescription drugs to the general public in Canada is restricted to name, price, and quantity under section C.01.044 of the Food and Drug Regulations; (c) claim or imply that the products diagnose, treat, cure, prevent, or alleviate any disease, condition, or symptom — advertising any product to the general public as a treatment, preventative, or cure for the diseases listed in Schedule A.1 of the Food and Drugs Act (including obesity, diabetes, anxiety, and depression) is prohibited by section 3 of that Act, and therapeutic claims would render the product an unauthorized drug under the Act; (d) target audiences in the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, the European Union, New Zealand, or any other jurisdiction where we do not lawfully supply; or (e) direct Content to anyone under the age of majority in their province or territory, and in any event anyone under 18.
6.3 Mandatory inclusions.
In every Content piece referencing our products, you must include either:
(a) the Material Connection disclosure (Appendix A.2) within the caption, the start of the video, or the top of the email (placed clearly and prominently, consistent with the Competition Bureau’s guidance on influencer marketing and the Ad Standards Influencer Marketing Disclosure Guidelines); or
(b) the RUO disclaimer (Appendix A.1), within the caption or audible voiceover, in the same medium as the product reference.
Where Content is directed at audiences in Quebec, disclosures and disclaimers must also appear in French (see Appendix A.2) and you must comply with the Charter of the French Language, as amended.
6.4 No fakery. No fake testimonials, fabricated lab results, AI-generated likenesses presented as real users, doctored before/afters, or claimed endorsements you do not have in writing. False or misleading testimonials and reviews may constitute reviewable conduct or offences under sections 52 and 74.01–74.02 of the Competition Act, exposing you to administrative monetary penalties or criminal liability.
6.5 Healthcare professionals. If you are a provincially licensed or registered healthcare practitioner (physician, nurse, nurse practitioner, pharmacist, dietitian, naturopathic doctor, or similar), you must not use any regulated or protected title (Dr., MD, RN, NP, etc.) in Content promoting Pure Peptide, must not give clinical advice in connection with our products, and must not promote our products to your patients. Use of a regulated title in connection with our products is an immediate-termination breach (clause 14.3) and may also breach your provincial college’s advertising and professional-conduct rules.
Prohibited Promotional Activities
In addition to clause 6, you must not:
(a) bid on our brand keywords: Pure Peptide brand names, misspellings, product names, or our domain in any paid-search platform; (b) run paid media for our products (paid social, programmatic display, native, sponsored placements, TikTok Spark Ads, Meta whitelisting, YouTube TrueView, or comparable amplification) without our prior written approval for the specific campaign; (c) spam: send any commercial electronic message (email, SMS, DM, push notification) without the consent, identification, and unsubscribe mechanism required by CASL, or make telemarketing calls in breach of the CRTC’s Unsolicited Telecommunications Rules and the National Do Not Call List, or post in groups, forums, or comment sections in violation of those communities’ rules; (d) misuse our trademarks: register or use any domain, social handle, or trademark containing “Pure Peptide” or any confusingly similar variant, or otherwise imitate our brand identity; (e) resell our products, repackage them, or facilitate any onward sale; or (f) manipulate traffic with bot, fake-engagement, view-bot, or click-fraud services on Content that mentions Pure Peptide.
Regulatory Acknowledgement
You acknowledge that, in respect of Content directed at or accessible by a Canadian audience, you must comply with the Food and Drugs Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. F-27, and the Food and Drug Regulations (including the prohibition on Schedule A.1 disease claims in section 3, the misleading-advertising prohibition in section 9, and the prescription-drug advertising restriction in C.01.044); the Competition Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-34 (including sections 52 and 74.01 and following on false or misleading representations, testimonials, and disclosure of material connections); the Competition Bureau’s and Ad Standards’ influencer-marketing guidance and the Canadian Code of Advertising Standards; CASL; the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and applicable provincial privacy laws (including Quebec’s Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector as amended by Law 25, Alberta’s PIPA, and British Columbia’s PIPA); Quebec’s Consumer Protection Act and Charter of the French Language for Quebec-directed Content; and any provincial health-college or professional-licensure advertising rules that apply to you.
For audiences outside Canada, you are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws (including the FDCA, FTC Act, and FTC Endorsement Guides in the United States, the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 (Cth) and AANA Code in Australia, CAP Code Section 12 in the UK, and equivalent regimes elsewhere). Where you are unsure, add the disclaimers, remove any therapeutic implication, and seek our written guidance before posting.
Trademark and Brand Assets
9.1 Limited license. We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free licence to use the name “Pure Peptide”, our logos, product images, and other items in the Approved Asset Pack solely for the purposes of, and during the term of, this agreement. You must not use any brand asset that is not in the Approved Asset Pack.
9.2 Reservation of rights. All rights not expressly granted are reserved. You must not register or attempt to register any trademark, domain, or social handle incorporating our marks or any confusingly similar variant.
9.3 Content licence to us. You grant Pure Peptide a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, sublicensable licence to repost, repurpose, archive, and use Content you publish that references our products on our owned channels (website, email, organic social). Use of your Content in our paid advertising is conditional on payment of a separately agreed amplification fee. You waive your moral rights in such Content in favour of Pure Peptide to the extent permitted under the Copyright Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-42.
Approved Channels
10.1 Approved. Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, Threads, Facebook, blogs, podcasts, email newsletters (CASL-compliant), Discord (organic only), Substack, and your own website.
10.2 Restricted. Any other channel — including paid search, programmatic ad networks, sponsored newsletter swaps, and creator-network paid amplification — requires our prior written approval.
10.3 Off-limits. Coupon-aggregator websites, browser extensions, deal forums, adult-content platforms, and any platform whose rules prohibit research-chemicals or therapeutic-claim Content.
Privacy and Data
11.1 You must not collect, store, scrape, sell, or transfer personal information about Pure Peptide customers obtained through your participation in the Program.
11.2 Where you collect personal information from your audience, you must comply with PIPEDA, applicable provincial privacy laws (including Quebec Law 25, Alberta PIPA, and BC PIPA), CASL, and any other privacy or data-protection law that applies to your audience (including the CCPA/CPRA where you address US audiences and the GDPR/UK GDPR where you address audiences in those jurisdictions), and your platform’s terms.
11.3 Do not transfer your audience’s personal information to Pure Peptide without an express data-sharing agreement and a lawful basis (including valid consent where required).
Confidentiality
You will keep Confidential Information confidential, use it solely to perform under this agreement, and not disclose it to anyone other than your professional advisers under equivalent obligations. This obligation survives termination for three (3) years (and indefinitely for trade secrets, consistent with Canadian common law and, in Quebec, the Civil Code of Québec). You may disclose where required by law, court order, or regulator request, with prompt notice to us where lawful, and nothing in these Terms prevents you from reporting suspected legal violations to a regulator or law-enforcement agency.
Audit and Monitoring
We monitor Affiliate Content via direct review, social listening, and tip-offs. You consent to this monitoring. We may at any time require you to remove or amend Content within 24 hours of notice if, in our reasonable view, it breaches these Terms. Failure to comply within 24 hours is itself a breach.
Compliance Strikes
14.1 Strike 1: first confirmed breach. Written warning, takedown within 24 hours, commission for the offending period reviewed and potentially reversed, 30-day probation.
14.2 Strike 2: second confirmed breach within 12 months of Strike 1. All commissions for the prior calendar month forfeited; 60-day suspension; written undertaking required as a condition of re-entry.
14.3 Strike 3 or egregious breach: immediate termination, all unpaid commissions forfeited, mandatory takedown, full reservation of rights including under clause 15. The following are egregious breaches permitting immediate termination without prior strikes:
(a) human-use dosing instructions or brand-name medicine comparisons (clauses 6.2(a)–(b)); (b) paid advertising without our written approval; (c) targeting audiences in restricted jurisdictions; (d) use of a regulated healthcare title in breach of clause 6.5; (e) fraud, fake testimonials, or AI-generated impersonation; (f) breach of confidentiality; or (g) conduct that, in our reasonable view, materially damages our brand or exposes us to regulator enforcement.
Indemnification
To the maximum extent permitted by law, you indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Pure Peptide, its officers, directors, employees, and contractors from and against all claims, demands, suits, losses, damages, fines, administrative monetary penalties, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees on a solicitor-and-client basis) arising out of or in connection with:
(a) your breach of these Terms; (b) any Content you publish that references Pure Peptide; (c) any third-party claim that your Content infringes intellectual property, defames, or invades privacy; (d) any Health Canada, Competition Bureau, provincial regulator, Ad Standards, or other regulator enforcement action arising in whole or material part from your Content; or (e) any pharmaceutical-company or consumer-harm claim (including any claim under provincial consumer-protection legislation or class proceeding) arising in whole or material part from your Content.
We control the defence and any settlement of an indemnified claim, but will not settle in a way that imposes a non-monetary obligation on you without your prior written consent (not unreasonably withheld). This clause survives termination.
Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law: (a) our total aggregate liability is capped at the commissions actually paid to you in the six (6) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim; (b) we are not liable for indirect, consequential, special, incidental, exemplary, or punitive damages, including lost profits, lost revenue, or loss of goodwill, even if advised of the possibility; and (c) nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded under applicable federal or provincial law (including liability for gross negligence, wilful misconduct, or fraud, and any consumer rights that cannot be waived under provincial consumer-protection legislation).
Changes
We may amend these Terms or change the Program. Material changes will be notified through your Affiliate Account or registered email at least fourteen (14) days before they take effect; continued participation constitutes acceptance. Changes necessary to comply with regulator guidance, platform rules, or payment-processor requirements may take effect immediately on notice.
Termination
18.1 Either party may terminate on 14 days’ written notice.
18.2 Pure Peptide may terminate immediately by written notice if you commit any egregious breach in clause 14.3, commit any other material breach you fail to cure within 7 days of notice, become insolvent or make a filing under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act or the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, use the Program for any illegal purpose, or bring Pure Peptide into material reputational, regulatory, or legal jeopardy.
18.3 On termination you must immediately cease using all Asset Pack materials, our marks, and your unique referral code/link, and within 5 business days take down or amend Content where reasonably required by us. Unpaid commissions are payable on the next scheduled payout cycle, except that they are forfeited where termination is for cause under clause 18.2. Clauses 9.3, 11, 12, 15, 16, and 19 survive.
General
19.1 Force majeure. Neither party is liable for failure or delay caused by an event outside its reasonable control, provided the affected party gives prompt notice and uses reasonable efforts to mitigate.
19.2 Notices. Notices must be in writing and sent by email: to the address in your Affiliate Account or to care@purepeptide.co. Termination and indemnification notices must additionally be sent by Canada Post registered mail or nationally recognized overnight courier to the address on record.
19.3 Governing law. These Terms are governed by the laws of Canada, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles.
19.4 Disputes; Arbitration. Before commencing any formal proceeding, the parties will attempt in good faith to resolve any dispute by written notice followed by senior-representative negotiation within 10 business days. Failing resolution, any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Program shall be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the ADR Institute of Canada under its Arbitration Rules, seated in Canada at a location determined under those Rules, before a single arbitrator, conducted in English, with judgment on the award entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. To the extent permitted by law, each party waives any right to participate in any class or representative proceeding. Either party may seek interim or interlocutory injunctive relief in a court of competent jurisdiction to protect intellectual property or confidential information pending arbitration. If the arbitration agreement or class waiver is held unenforceable as to any claim, that claim shall be litigated in a court of competent jurisdiction in Canada, to which both parties attorn.
19.5 Other. These Terms (with the Asset Pack and any campaign briefs) are the entire agreement and supersede all prior arrangements. Severability, no-waiver-unless-in-writing, and counterparts/electronic signature (consistent with applicable federal and provincial electronic-commerce and electronic-transactions legislation in Canada) all apply. You may not assign or sub-license these Terms; we may assign on written notice in connection with a corporate restructure, sale, or financing. The parties confirm that they have requested that this agreement and all related documents be drawn up in English. / Les parties confirment avoir exigé que la présente convention et tous les documents connexes soient rédigés en anglais.
Acknowledgement
By accepting these Terms in the Affiliate portal you confirm that you have read and understand the document (including the Appendix), that breach of clause 6 or clause 7 may lead to immediate termination, commission forfeiture, and indemnification under clause 15, that Pure Peptide products are sold for research use only, hold no DIN or NPN, and are not authorized by Health Canada, that the products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease, and that you accept these Terms on your own behalf and (where applicable) on behalf of any entity through which you operate.
Appendix A: Disclaimers
A.1 RUO Disclaimer
Can be pasted in a caption, or said audibly:
“Pure Peptide products are sold for research use only (RUO). Not for human or animal consumption. These products have not been evaluated or authorized by Health Canada and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.”
French (required for Quebec-directed Content):
« Les produits Pure Peptide sont vendus à des fins de recherche uniquement (RUO). Ne pas consommer par des humains ou des animaux. Ces produits n’ont pas été évalués ni autorisés par Santé Canada et ne sont pas destinés à diagnostiquer, traiter, guérir ou prévenir une maladie. »
A.2 Material Connection Disclosure
Place within the caption, the video, or the first line of email. Disclosure must be clear and prominent, consistent with the Competition Bureau’s influencer-marketing guidance and the Ad Standards Influencer Marketing Disclosure Guidelines.
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Audience |
Required wording |
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Canada (English) |
“#ad — paid partnership with Pure Peptide (purepeptide.co)” placed at the start of the caption, in spoken audio within the first 5 seconds of video, or on the first line of an email |
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Quebec / French-language Content |
« #pub — partenariat rémunéré avec Pure Peptide (purepeptide.co) » placed in the same position as above |
A.3 Approved Medical Redirect
If a viewer asks a medical or weight-loss question, reply with this or words to the same effect:
“I can’t give medical advice. For weight-management options approved as medicines, please speak with your physician, pharmacist, or a licensed telehealth provider. Pure Peptide products are sold for research use only and are not medicines, and have not been evaluated or authorized by Health Canada.”