Privacy Policy

Last updated: May 5, 2026

This Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use, and disclosure of your information when you use our website at www.PeptideCritic.com and our community forum at community.peptidecritic.com (the "Community Forum"). It tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

We use your Personal Data to provide and improve our services. By using the Website or Community Forum, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Interpretation and Definitions

Company: Jetsetter Guide LLC, a Nevada limited liability company located in Incline Village, NV, doing business as Peptide Critic. Referred to throughout as "Peptide Critic," "we," "us," or "our."
Website: Refers to www.PeptideCritic.com.
Community Forum: Refers to community.peptidecritic.com, the discussion platform we operate.
Country: Nevada, United States.
Personal Data: Information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
Service Provider: Any natural or legal person who processes data on behalf of the Company.
You: The individual using the Website or Community Forum.

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data: May include name, email address, username, password (stored hashed), and any information you provide when registering, subscribing to our newsletters, posting content, or making a purchase.
Usage Data: Collected automatically, such as IP address, browser type, operating system, device identifiers, pages visited, time spent, and referring URL.
Community Forum Data: When you post on the Community Forum, we store the post content, the timestamp, your IP address at the time of posting, your username, your profile photo (if uploaded), upvotes given and received, follows, and read state. The Community Forum is operated using NodeBB software on systems we control.
Click and Affiliate Data: When you click an outbound vendor link (links beginning with /go/), we record the timestamp, the destination vendor, the source page, a hashed form of your IP address, your user-agent string, and any traffic-source identifiers (such as gclid, fbclid, or UTM parameters). This data is used for analytics, attribution, and fraud prevention.
Vendor Reviews: When you submit a vendor review, the review content, your username, profile photo, rating, and submission date are publicly displayed and indexed by search engines. See our Terms and Conditions for the license you grant when submitting reviews.

Use of Your Personal Data

We may use your Personal Data for:

Providing and maintaining our Website and Community Forum.
Managing your account.
Sending newsletters, promotional offers, and marketing content (with your consent).
Sending transactional and account emails (such as password resets, vendor approval notifications, and forum digests).
Tracking outbound clicks for analytics, vendor attribution, and fraud prevention.
Operating contests, sweepstakes, or rewards programs you choose to participate in.
Monitoring and analyzing Website usage.
Compliance with legal obligations.

Account Linking Between the Website and Community Forum

The Website and Community Forum use a single sign-on (SSO) system. When you log in to either, we issue a signed token containing your username and email address, which is passed to the Community Forum to create or look up the matching forum account. Your Drupal user ID and your NodeBB user ID are deliberately kept the same, so that any actions in one system can be associated with the same person in the other.

Email Services

We use the following providers to deliver email on our behalf:

Amazon Web Services (Amazon SES) for transactional and account-related email (such as password resets, vendor notifications, and forum digests).
Sender.net for newsletter and marketing email.

By subscribing to our newsletter or promotions, you consent to the processing of your Personal Data by these providers in accordance with their respective privacy policies. You may opt out of marketing emails at any time by clicking "unsubscribe" in any marketing email or by contacting us directly. Transactional emails (such as password resets) are required to operate your account and cannot be opted out of.

Cookies & Tracking

We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:

Strictly necessary cookies that keep you signed in, prevent CSRF attacks, and remember your preferences.
Analytics cookies from Google Analytics 4 (_ga, _ga_*) to measure traffic and feature usage.
Advertising cookies from Google Ads, Meta (Facebook) Pixel, and X (Twitter) Pixel to measure conversions and serve relevant ads.
Affiliate-attribution cookies we set ourselves (such as _pc_fbc_eid) so that browser-side and server-side conversion events for the same click can be deduplicated.
Bot-protection cookies set by Cloudflare (__cf_bm, cf_clearance) to keep our services secure.

You may disable cookies in your browser settings, but this may limit Website functionality.

Analytics and Advertising

We use third-party analytics and advertising services, including Google Analytics, Google Ads, Google AdSense, Google Ad Manager, Meta (Facebook) Pixel, and X (Twitter) Pixel, to understand how visitors use the Website and Community Forum and to deliver relevant advertising.

Server-Side Conversion APIs: When you click an outbound vendor link, we may also send a server-to-server conversion event to Meta's Conversions API. This event includes a hashed form of your IP address, hashed user-agent, and the click event identifier. We use this in addition to (and deduplicated with) the corresponding browser-side pixel event so that ad-blockers and browser tracking restrictions do not impair the accuracy of our advertising measurement.

Payments

If you make a purchase from us — such as a vendor subscription, sponsored placement, or item from our store — payment is processed by Stripe. Stripe collects and stores your payment-card details on its own systems in accordance with its privacy policy and PCI DSS requirements. We never receive or store full card numbers; we only retain a Stripe customer ID, the last four digits of the card, and the transaction history necessary to provide receipts and support.

Data Retention

We retain your Personal Data only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described above or as required by law. Specific retention windows for the categories users most commonly ask about:

Outbound click logs (the data described under "Click and Affiliate Data" above): retained for 24 months, then automatically deleted.
Forum posts and vendor reviews: retained indefinitely while published, since later readers continue to rely on them. You may request deletion of your account and associated content at any time.
Account records (username, email, password hash): retained while your account is active. Deleted accounts are removed within 30 days of confirmed deletion request.
Email delivery logs from Amazon SES and Sender.net: retained per their respective retention policies, which we do not control directly.

Data Sharing

We do not sell or trade your Personal Data. We may share it with:

Service providers (e.g., analytics, advertising, payment processing, IT, email delivery, content delivery).
Law enforcement, if required by law.
Business transfers (e.g., merger, acquisition).

Subprocessors we currently use: Amazon Web Services (hosting, SES email), Stripe (payments), Cloudflare (CDN, WAF), Sender.net (newsletter email), Google (Analytics, Ads, AdSense, Ad Manager), Meta (Pixel and Conversions API), X / Twitter (Pixel).

Products Sold Directly by Us

Peptide Critic may offer general merchandise, apparel, and branded accessories for purchase.

These products are sold as non-medical goods only.
They are not intended for human or veterinary use, diagnosis, treatment, or cure of any condition.

Security of Your Data

We implement commercially reasonable safeguards, but no system is 100% secure.

Children's Privacy

Our Website and Community Forum are not directed at anyone under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect data from children.

Your Rights (GDPR / CCPA)

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the right to:

Access, correct, or delete your data.
Export your forum and account data through the Community Forum's built-in GDPR export tool.
Opt out of marketing communications.
Request restrictions on processing.

To exercise these rights, contact us at [email protected].

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Updates will be posted here with a revised "Last updated" date.

Contact Us

If you have questions, contact us at:

Email: [email protected]
Company: Jetsetter Guide LLC, doing business as Peptide Critic
Address: Incline Village, NV 89451
Jurisdiction: Nevada, United States