Terms of Service

1. Acceptance and Scope

These Terms of Service ("Terms") form a binding legal agreement between you ("you," "your," or "Buyer") and DB Marketing LLC, a Utah limited liability company ("Aflu," "we," "us," or "our"). These Terms govern your access to and use of the website located at aflu.com (the "Site"), any related subdomains, mobile interfaces, communications, and all products, content, and services offered by Aflu (collectively, the "Services").

By accessing the Site, creating an order, completing the compliance gate, or otherwise using the Services, you represent that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms, our Privacy Policy, and our Research Use Disclaimer, each of which is incorporated herein by reference.

If you do not agree to any part of these Terms, you must not access the Site or use the Services.

2. Eligibility & Account

To use the Services, you represent and warrant that:

• You are at least twenty-one (21) years of age;
• You have the legal capacity and authority to enter into this agreement, either individually or on behalf of an entity you represent;
• You are accessing the Services for legitimate laboratory research, scientific, or commercial research purposes only;
• You are not purchasing on behalf of, or with the intent to provide products to, a person who will consume, ingest, inject, or otherwise use the products in or on a human or animal body;
• You are not located in a jurisdiction that prohibits your purchase or use of research peptides; and
• Your use of the Services complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Aflu reserves the right to refuse service, reject any order, or suspend any account at our sole discretion, with or without notice, for any reason permitted by law.

3. Nature of the Site & Products

Aflu operates a research-services platform that markets, brands, and facilitates orders for research-grade peptides intended for laboratory study. Aflu may, depending on the product line, act as a reseller or order facilitator. Physical product manufacturing, packaging, fulfillment, and shipping are performed by independent third-party suppliers and laboratories with whom Aflu has commercial arrangements (see Section 5).

Aflu's broader regulatory posture, product framework, FDA category notes, and catalog curation standards are described in detail on our Compliance & Posture page, which is incorporated herein by reference for context.

All products, descriptions, source-paper references, dosage information, and protocol guidance presented on the Site are for informational and research purposes only. Nothing on the Site constitutes medical advice, a medical product, a dietary supplement, a drug, or any item intended for diagnosis, treatment, cure, mitigation, or prevention of any disease or condition in humans or animals.

4. Research Use Only Certification

• The products you purchase from Aflu are for laboratory research use only;
• The products are not intended for human consumption, ingestion, injection, topical use, inhalation, or any other use in or on the human body;
• The products are not for veterinary, therapeutic, diagnostic, or clinical use;
• You will not repackage, relabel, sell, distribute, or provide the products to any person for any of the foregoing prohibited purposes;
• You assume full and complete responsibility for the handling, storage, use, testing, and disposal of all products purchased;
• You have the necessary scientific training, facilities, and credentials to safely handle research-grade peptides and other compounds;
• You have read and understood the Research Use Disclaimer; and
• You acknowledge that improper use of these products may be dangerous and that Aflu assumes no responsibility for any misuse.

4.1 Express Assumption of Risk & Waiver of Claims (Signed by Purchase)

You knowingly, voluntarily, and expressly assume all risks associated with the purchase, receipt, handling, storage, testing, use, and disposal of any product obtained through Aflu, including without limitation risks of personal injury, illness, death, property damage, regulatory action, financial loss, or any other harm of any kind, whether foreseeable or unforeseeable.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you irrevocably release, waive, discharge, and covenant not to sue DB Marketing LLC, its officers, directors, employees, agents, contractors, suppliers, manufacturers, fulfillment partners, payment processors, affiliates, successors, and assigns (collectively, the "Released Parties") from any and all claims, demands, actions, causes of action, damages, losses, costs, or expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) of any nature whatsoever, whether known or unknown, that arise out of or relate in any way to:

• any use, misuse, or attempted use of any product purchased through Aflu, including any use in or on a human or animal body, notwithstanding the research-use-only certifications above;
• any defect, contamination, mislabeling, or impurity in any product, whether or not disclosed in third-party testing;
• any failure of Aflu or any Supplier to detect, prevent, or warn against any such defect, contamination, mislabeling, or impurity;
• any reliance by you on any statement, image, dosage range, study citation, blog post, protocol, or other content presented on the Site;
• any regulatory, civil, or criminal action taken against you by any governmental authority arising from your possession or use of any product; and
• any injury, illness, death, or other harm to you or to any third party caused in whole or in part by any product purchased through Aflu.

This waiver applies even if any Released Party is alleged to have been negligent, and shall be construed as broadly as permitted by applicable law. You expressly waive the benefit of any statute, rule, or common-law doctrine that would otherwise preserve a claim that you do not know or suspect to exist at the time of purchase.

This certification and waiver are repeated and reaffirmed each time you place an order, are recorded with a timestamp at checkout, and survive termination of these Terms.

5. Third-Party Suppliers & Fulfillment

Physical products marketed through the Site are sourced, manufactured, packaged, and shipped by independent third-party suppliers, manufacturers, and fulfillment partners with whom Aflu has commercial arrangements (collectively, "Suppliers").

You acknowledge and agree that:

• Suppliers are independent contractors and are not agents, partners, employees, or joint venturers of Aflu;
• Suppliers may impose their own terms, conditions, policies, and acknowledgments, which may apply to your purchase in addition to these Terms;
• Aflu does not manufacture, formulate, or perform primary quality control on the physical products themselves;
• Third-party Certificates of Analysis (COAs), batch records, and identity/purity testing are provided by independent laboratories;
• Aflu's role with respect to physical products is principally one of brand, order facilitation, customer support, and content presentation; and
• Any defect, error, omission, or harm arising from the manufacture, formulation, packaging, or shipping of physical products may be subject to recourse against the relevant Supplier, and Aflu's liability is governed by Section 12 below.

6. Orders, Payment, Pricing

All orders placed through the Site are offers by you to purchase, and are subject to acceptance by Aflu and/or the relevant Supplier. Aflu reserves the right to reject, cancel, or limit any order, including for reasons of pricing or product description errors, suspected fraud, regulatory concerns, or supply constraints.

Prices, taxes, and shipping charges are displayed in U.S. dollars and are subject to change without notice. Payment is processed through third-party payment processors (such as Stripe). By submitting payment information, you authorize Aflu and its payment processor to charge the payment method for the full order amount, including applicable taxes and shipping.

7. Shipping, Title, Risk of Loss

Aflu currently ships only to addresses within the United States. International orders are not accepted. Stated shipping windows are estimates only and are not guaranteed.

7.1 Standard and Extended Shipping Windows

Aflu's standard shipping window is up to thirty (30) calendar days from the date of order acceptance and successful payment authorization. Due to Supplier production capacity, third-party laboratory testing timelines, regulatory inspections, customs, carrier delays, or other circumstances described in Section 16 (Force Majeure), delivery may extend up to sixty (60) calendar days from order acceptance. By placing an order, you expressly acknowledge and accept this 30-to-60 day delivery window as commercially reasonable for research-grade materials.

If your order is materially delayed beyond the standard window, Aflu will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify you by email at the address provided at checkout. Aflu is not liable for delays caused by carriers, weather, regulatory action, Supplier disruption, or other causes outside our reasonable control (see Section 16).

7.2 Title & Risk of Loss

Title and risk of loss pass to you upon delivery of the products to the common carrier at the Supplier's facility. Once delivered to the carrier, claims for loss or damage in transit must be made with the carrier.

8. No Refunds; Replacements for Defects; Non-Shipment Refund

Due to the nature of research-grade peptides and other compounds, and the impossibility of verifying chain-of-custody once a sealed product leaves the Supplier's facility:

• All sales are final. Aflu does not accept returns and does not issue refunds on shipped product, except where required by applicable law or as expressly provided in Section 8.1 below.
• If a product arrives visibly damaged, materially defective, or materially different from what you ordered, you must notify Aflu in writing at team@aflu.com within seven (7) calendar days of delivery, with photographs and your order number.
• Aflu's sole remedy in such cases, at Aflu's discretion, is replacement of the defective unit with an equivalent product, subject to Supplier verification.
• Replacements will not be issued for products that have been opened, used, reconstituted, mishandled, stored improperly, or transferred to a third party.

8.1 Non-Shipment Refund Right (Exclusive Remedy; Chargeback Limitation)

Notwithstanding the general no-refund policy in Section 8, if Aflu has not shipped your order within sixty (60) calendar days of successful payment authorization (the "Non-Shipment Window"), you may request a full refund of the amount paid for the unshipped order by sending a written request to team@aflu.com that includes your order number and the email address used at checkout.

Refunds requested under this Section 8.1 will be processed within ten (10) business days of Aflu's receipt and verification of your request, to the original payment method used at checkout. Currency conversion losses, third-party payment processor fees, and any partial shipment already dispatched are not refundable.

This Section 8.1 is your sole and exclusive remedy for non-shipment and is in lieu of any other right or remedy you may have. You agree that, before initiating any chargeback, payment dispute, or reversal with your bank, card issuer, or any payment processor (including Stripe), you will first contact Aflu at team@aflu.com and allow Aflu a reasonable opportunity (not less than ten (10) business days) to resolve the issue under this Section 8.1. Initiating a chargeback in violation of this Section 8.1 constitutes a material breach of these Terms, and Aflu reserves the right to recover any losses, fees, and reasonable attorneys' fees resulting therefrom.

This Section 8.1 does not limit any non-waivable consumer right under applicable law.

9. Prohibited Conduct

You agree not to, and not to permit any third party to:

• Use, distribute, or transfer any product purchased through Aflu for human or animal consumption, therapeutic, diagnostic, or clinical purposes;
• Repackage, relabel, or resell Aflu products without prior written authorization from Aflu;
• Misrepresent the nature, intended use, or origin of the products;
• Use the Site or Services to violate any law, regulation, or third-party right;
• Attempt to access non-public areas of the Site, reverse engineer, scrape, or interfere with the Services;
• Submit false, misleading, or fraudulent order information;
• Use any robot, spider, scraper, crawler, AI agent, large language model, machine-learning system, or other automated means to access, collect, index, monitor, copy, or interact with the Site or Services, in whole or in part, without Aflu's prior express written consent;
• Bypass, ignore, or circumvent the Site's robots.txt file, rate limits, CAPTCHA, compliance gate, age verification, IP-based blocks, or any other technical, procedural, or contractual safeguard;
• Use the Site or Services from, or ship products to, any country, territory, or person subject to comprehensive U.S. sanctions, U.S. Treasury OFAC restrictions, or U.S. export controls (see Section 20); or
• Bypass, circumvent, or attempt to defeat the compliance gate, age verification, or any technical or procedural safeguard.

10. Intellectual Property

The Site, including all content, design, code, trademarks, logos, brand names, source-paper summaries, protocol templates, and other materials, is owned by Aflu or its licensors and is protected by United States and international intellectual property laws. You are granted a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and use the Site solely for the purposes contemplated by these Terms. Any unauthorized use is strictly prohibited.

11. Disclaimers; No Warranties

12. Limitation of Liability

13. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Aflu, its affiliates, officers, directors, members, managers, employees, agents, contractors, Suppliers, and licensors (collectively, the "Indemnified Parties") from and against any and all claims, demands, actions, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and court costs) arising out of or relating to:

• Your access to or use of the Site, Services, or any product purchased through Aflu;
• Your breach of these Terms, including any representation, warranty, or certification made by you (including, without limitation, the Research Use Only Certification in Section 4);
• Your use, misuse, handling, storage, distribution, or disposal of any product;
• Any harm, injury, or damage to you, any other person, any animal, or any property caused by your use, misuse, or transfer of any product;
• Your violation of any applicable law, regulation, or third-party right; or
• Any false, misleading, or incomplete information you provide to Aflu.

Aflu reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will cooperate with Aflu in asserting any available defenses.

14. Arbitration, Class Waiver, Jury Waiver

14.1 Binding Arbitration

Except for the limited exceptions set forth below, any and all disputes, claims, or controversies arising out of or relating to these Terms, the Site, the Services, or any product purchased through Aflu (collectively, "Disputes") shall be resolved exclusively through final and binding arbitration, and not in court. The arbitration shall be administered by JAMS or another nationally recognized arbitration provider mutually agreed upon, pursuant to its then-current Streamlined Arbitration Rules. Arbitration shall be conducted in Salt Lake County, Utah, or by remote/written submission at the arbitrator's discretion. Judgment on the arbitrator's award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

14.2 Class Action Waiver

You agree that any Dispute shall be brought solely in your individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, mass, or representative action or proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims and may not preside over any form of representative or class proceeding. If this class action waiver is held unenforceable as to a particular claim, that specific claim (and only that claim) shall be severed and may proceed in a court of competent jurisdiction; all remaining claims shall continue to be resolved by individual arbitration under Section 14.1, and the jury trial waiver in Section 14.3 shall remain in full force and effect.

14.3 Jury Trial Waiver

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you irrevocably and unconditionally waive any right to a trial by jury in any action, proceeding, or counterclaim arising out of or relating to these Terms, the Site, the Services, or any product purchased through Aflu.

14.4 Limited Exceptions for Aflu

Notwithstanding the foregoing, Aflu may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect its intellectual property, confidential information, or to enforce the prohibitions set forth in Section 9. Nothing in this Section limits your right to bring an individual claim in small claims court if such claim qualifies.

14.5 Opt-Out

You may opt out of the arbitration provision in Section 14.1 and the class action waiver in Section 14.2 by sending written notice to team@aflu.com within thirty (30) days of your first acceptance of these Terms. Your notice must include your name, mailing address, and a clear statement that you wish to opt out. The jury trial waiver in Section 14.3 is not subject to opt-out.

15. Governing Law & Venue

These Terms, and any Dispute not subject to arbitration, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Utah, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. Subject to Section 14, the exclusive venue for any Dispute shall be the state and federal courts located in Salt Lake County, Utah, and you irrevocably consent to the personal jurisdiction of such courts.

The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply to these Terms.

16. Force Majeure

Aflu shall not be liable for any failure or delay in performance arising from causes beyond its reasonable control, including without limitation: acts of God; natural disasters; war; terrorism; civil unrest; epidemics or pandemics; governmental, regulatory, or law enforcement action; embargoes; customs delays; labor disputes; supply-chain disruptions; carrier delays; power, telecommunications, or internet outages; or any third-party Supplier's failure to perform.

17. Modifications to Terms

Aflu may revise these Terms at any time, in our sole discretion. Revised Terms will be posted on this page with an updated "Last updated" date. Material changes will be communicated in a reasonable manner (e.g., on-site notice or email to registered users). Your continued access to or use of the Site or Services after revised Terms are posted constitutes your acceptance of the revised Terms. If you do not agree to the revised Terms, you must stop using the Services.

18. Termination & Inactivity

Aflu may suspend or terminate your access to the Site or Services at any time, with or without notice or cause. Without limiting the foregoing, Aflu may deactivate or remove any account that has been inactive for twelve (12) consecutive months, without further notice. Upon termination, the provisions that by their nature should survive (including Sections 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24) shall survive.

19. Severability; Entire Agreement; Assignment; Waiver

Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, that provision shall be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, or if it cannot be modified, severed, and the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect.

Entire Agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, the Research Use Disclaimer, and any order-specific terms presented at checkout, constitute the entire agreement between you and Aflu and supersede all prior or contemporaneous communications, proposals, or agreements.

Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms without Aflu's prior written consent. Aflu may freely assign these Terms.

No Waiver. Aflu's failure to enforce any provision shall not be deemed a waiver of that or any other provision.

Headings. Section headings are for convenience only and have no legal effect.

20. Geographic & Export Restrictions

The Site and Services are controlled and operated from the United States. Aflu makes no representation that the Site, Services, or any product is appropriate or available for use in any other location. You may not access, use, purchase from, or take delivery from the Site or Services if you are located in, ordinarily resident in, or a national of any country, region, or territory subject to comprehensive U.S. embargoes or sanctions administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), including (without limitation) Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, the Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk regions, and any other jurisdiction designated from time to time. You further represent and warrant that you are not (i) listed on any U.S. government list of prohibited or restricted parties (including OFAC's Specially Designated Nationals List, the U.S. Department of Commerce's Denied Persons or Entity List, or the U.S. Department of State's debarred parties list), and (ii) you will not export, re-export, or transfer any product or content obtained from Aflu in violation of U.S. export laws or other applicable export control regulations.

21. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Notice & Copyright Agent

Aflu respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects users of the Site to do the same. If you believe in good faith that any content on the Site infringes your copyright, please send a written notice that complies with 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to Aflu's designated copyright agent at the address below. The notice must include: (a) your physical or electronic signature; (b) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed; (c) identification of the allegedly infringing material and its location on the Site; (d) your contact information (address, telephone, email); (e) a statement of good-faith belief that the use is unauthorized; and (f) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and that you are the owner (or authorized to act on behalf of the owner) of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Aflu may, in its sole discretion and where appropriate, terminate the accounts of users who are determined to be repeat infringers. Knowingly submitting a false or misleading DMCA notice may result in liability under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).

22. Time Limit on Claims

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, any claim or cause of action arising out of or relating to these Terms, the Site, the Services, or any product purchased through Aflu must be filed (in arbitration under Section 14, or, where Section 14 does not apply, in a court of competent jurisdiction) within one (1) year after the cause of action first accrues. Any claim filed after the expiration of that one-year period is permanently barred. This Section 22 does not extend any shorter limitations period required by these Terms or applicable law.

23. Language

These Terms, all communications, and all related agreements are entered into and shall be construed in the English language. Any translation provided is for convenience only. In the event of any inconsistency between the English version and any translated version, the English version controls.

24. Third-Party Links & Reliance on Information

The Site may contain links to third-party websites, source papers, research databases, or other resources that are not owned or controlled by Aflu. Aflu provides these links solely for convenience and does not endorse, warrant, or assume any responsibility for the content, accuracy, availability, privacy practices, or terms of any third-party site or resource. Your access to and use of any third-party site or resource is at your sole risk.

All content presented on the Site — including product descriptions, source-paper summaries, dosage ranges, protocol templates, and blog posts — is presented for informational and laboratory research purposes only. It is not medical advice and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, mitigate, or prevent any disease in humans or animals. Any reliance you place on such content is strictly at your own risk, and Aflu disclaims all liability for any decision made or action taken in reliance on Site content (see Sections 4, 11, and 12).

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