Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how Pept Research LLC ("Pept") collects, uses, discloses, retains, and protects personal information when you visit peptresearch.com, contact us, create a cart, submit an order, or otherwise interact with the website.

It does not govern websites, payment services, delivery carriers, or other services operated independently by third parties. Their privacy policies apply to information they collect directly.

We may collect information you provide directly, including your name, email address, billing and shipping details, age and researcher confirmations, selected researcher category, affirmation time and version, order and cart information, payment-method selection, customer-service messages, and other information submitted through forms.

When live payment processing is enabled, a payment provider may collect bank-account, card, identity, or authentication information directly. Pept should receive only the information needed to confirm and support the transaction and generally should not receive full bank-login or complete card credentials.

Hosting, security, and network services may automatically process technical information needed to deliver and protect the site, such as IP address, request time, browser and device type, referring page, pages requested, general location inferred from IP address, and security or error events.

The site uses essential browser storage for cart continuity and consent preferences. Attestly (Merit) provides researcher verification, uses essential browser storage to remember verification, and handles verification acknowledgments through its service. Optional analytics, performance, and advertising-measurement tools do not load unless you select "Allow optional tools."

We collect information from you, your browser or device, and service providers that support hosting, security, payments, communications, fulfillment, and delivery.

We may also receive information from fraud-prevention services, delivery carriers, or business partners when reasonably necessary to verify a transaction, investigate misuse, or resolve an order issue.

We use information to operate and secure the site; preserve carts and preferences; assess researcher acknowledgments; process, review, and support orders; calculate tax and shipping; provide delivery updates; respond to inquiries; prevent fraud and prohibited use; maintain records; and satisfy legal obligations.

If you allow optional analytics, we may use aggregated interaction and performance information to understand site usage and improve reliability, navigation, and catalog presentation.

With your consent where required, we may send catalog announcements or research-use updates. You may unsubscribe from promotional email at any time. Transactional and compliance messages may still be sent when necessary.

The privacy notice lets you allow or deny optional analytics, performance, and advertising-measurement tools. Denying optional tools does not prevent essential browser storage used for the cart, security, researcher affirmation session, checkout, and privacy preferences.

You can change your optional-tools selection or opt out of sale or sharing for advertising at any time through the clearly labeled "Your Privacy Choices" control in the footer. The optional-tools selection and sale/sharing opt-out are shared between peptresearch.com and checkout.peptresearch.com through first-party preference cookies. Clearing browser data may remove your saved selections and cart.

When allowed, Pept may use Google Analytics, Vercel Web Analytics and Speed Insights, Meta Pixel, and Whop advertising measurement. Meta Pixel may receive browser or device identifiers, IP address, page URL, referrer, and a PageView when an allowed page loads. On a valid paid-order confirmation page, it may also receive purchase value, currency, item identifiers, item prices, quantities, and a transaction event identifier; Pept does not send full card or bank credentials through the Pixel. Advertising-measurement tools remain disabled when Pept detects Global Privacy Control or a saved sale/sharing opt-out.

When enabled, payment choices may include an ACH or bank-connection service such as Plaid, order-specific Zelle instructions, or card processing. The available options may change.

A payment provider processes information under its own terms and privacy policy. Review those materials before submitting payment. Do not send sensitive bank credentials, full card details, or payment to an address or account that has not been presented through Pept's official checkout or verified communications.

We may disclose information to service providers that support hosting, security, payments, tax calculation, order fulfillment, delivery, email, analytics, fraud prevention, and customer support. Providers should receive only information reasonably needed to perform the requested service.

We may also disclose information when required by law or legal process; to enforce agreements; to protect rights, property, safety, or site security; to investigate fraud, prohibited use, or an emergency; or as part of a financing, merger, reorganization, acquisition, or transfer of business assets.

Pept does not sell personal information for money. When optional advertising measurement is allowed, device identifiers, page visits, website interactions, and the paid-order details described above may be disclosed to Meta or Whop for measurement and attribution; applicable law may treat this as sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising. Pept disables those disclosures when Global Privacy Control is detected or you use the sale/sharing opt-out.

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described here, including order support, tax and accounting requirements, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, safety and compliance records, and enforcement of agreements. Retention periods vary by information type and legal obligation.

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards. No online service can guarantee absolute security.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, or a portable copy of certain personal information; to limit or object to certain processing; and to appeal a denied request. Applicable law may permit or require exceptions.

You may deny optional tools through the privacy notice, change that choice using the privacy controls, opt out of sale or sharing for advertising, unsubscribe from promotional email, and decline to provide optional information. Some information is necessary to process an order or respond to a request.

We may need to verify your identity and authority before completing a request. An authorized agent may be required to provide proof of authority.

California residents may have rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended, including rights to know, access, correct, and delete certain personal information and to opt out of sale or sharing when those practices occur. California law also prohibits discriminatory treatment for exercising applicable privacy rights.

Pept does not sell personal information for money. Optional advertising measurement may involve disclosures that applicable law considers sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising. Use the "Your Privacy Choices" control to opt out. Pept also detects and honors Global Privacy Control as an opt-out for this browser or device.

The site and catalog are intended only for adults who are at least 21 years old and qualified to evaluate research materials. They are not directed to children, and Pept does not knowingly collect personal information from children.

If you believe a child has provided personal information, contact Pept so the information can be investigated and deleted where appropriate.

Some browsers send a Do Not Track signal, but there is no single industry response standard. Optional tools remain disabled until permission is given and can be denied through the site's privacy notice.

When a browser sends Global Privacy Control, Pept automatically treats it as an opt-out of sale or sharing for advertising on that browser or device. Global Privacy Control overrides a prior site-specific setting that would otherwise allow advertising measurement.

Pept may update this policy as the site, service providers, payment options, or legal requirements change. The effective date above identifies the current version. Material changes may also be communicated through the site where appropriate.

To ask a privacy question or submit a request, contact Pept Research LLC at info@peptresearch.com or 2108 N St, Unit N, Sacramento, CA 95816. Please describe the request and the information or interaction involved so it can be evaluated efficiently.