{
  "name": "Amino Engine Platform Policy Tracker",
  "description": "Verbatim clauses from the public policies of email platforms, storefronts, payment processors, ad platforms and regulators that decide whether a peptide brand can use them.",
  "url": "https://aminoengine.com/peptide-platform-policies",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "citation": "Amino Engine Platform Policy Tracker, 2026-09-24",
  "dateModified": "2026-09-24",
  "policies": [
    {
      "id": "klaviyo",
      "platform": "Klaviyo",
      "category": "Email platforms",
      "policyName": "Acceptable use policy",
      "url": "https://www.klaviyo.com/legal/acceptable-use-policy",
      "clause": "You may not use the Services to offer products or services related to: ... Prescription medications, pharmaceutical products or services, medical therapies, telehealth, and other related technologies, products, or services.",
      "policyDate": "Updated: April 9, 2026",
      "lastChecked": "2026-09-24",
      "status": "Restricts pharma or drugs"
    },
    {
      "id": "brevo",
      "platform": "Brevo",
      "category": "Email platforms",
      "policyName": "Anti-spam policy",
      "url": "https://www.brevo.com/legal/antispampolicy/",
      "clause": "D.2 Content, products, or services not accepted regardless of legality: ... Peptide-based products for injectable or oral human therapeutic, weight-loss, or performance use (e.g. GLP-1 analogues, growth hormone peptides), including those labeled \"research use only\", whether or not sold under prescription or legal in the recipient's jurisdiction.",
      "policyDate": "Not printed",
      "lastChecked": "2026-09-24",
      "status": "Names peptides"
    },
    {
      "id": "mailchimp",
      "platform": "Mailchimp",
      "category": "Email platforms",
      "policyName": "Acceptable use policy",
      "url": "https://mailchimp.com/legal/acceptable_use/",
      "clause": "Some industries have higher-than-average abuse complaints, which can jeopardize deliverability. In order to maintain the reliability of our platform, we may not allow businesses that offer these types of services, products, or content: ... Pharmaceutical products",
      "policyDate": "Updated September 26, 2025",
      "lastChecked": "2026-09-24",
      "status": "Restricts pharma or drugs"
    },
    {
      "id": "omnisend",
      "platform": "Omnisend",
      "category": "Email platforms",
      "policyName": "Acceptable use policy",
      "url": "https://www.omnisend.com/legal/acceptable-use-policy/",
      "clause": "3.2.1. Unauthorized, counterfeit, or illegally distributed pharmaceutical products, and prescription medications (including but not limited to drugs for research purposes);",
      "policyDate": "Last Updated: April 30, 2026",
      "lastChecked": "2026-09-24",
      "status": "Restricts pharma or drugs"
    },
    {
      "id": "activecampaign",
      "platform": "ActiveCampaign",
      "category": "Email platforms",
      "policyName": "Acceptable use policy",
      "url": "https://www.activecampaign.com/legal/acceptable-use-policy",
      "clause": "Send Marketing Content or any other messages regarding: ... drugs, whether available only by prescription or over- the-counter, or any other product that claims to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent a disease; dietary supplements except (a) to Contacts located in the United States and (b) in compliance with all applicable laws...",
      "policyDate": "Effective: March 1, 2022",
      "lastChecked": "2026-09-24",
      "status": "Restricts pharma or drugs"
    },
    {
      "id": "sendlane",
      "platform": "Sendlane",
      "category": "Email platforms",
      "policyName": "Terms of service",
      "url": "https://www.sendlane.com/terms",
      "clause": "businesses offering the following types of services, products, or content cannot utilize our Services: (a) escort and dating services; (b) pharmaceutical products;",
      "policyDate": "Updated on: 2/22/2024",
      "lastChecked": "2026-09-24",
      "status": "Restricts pharma or drugs"
    },
    {
      "id": "stripe",
      "platform": "Stripe",
      "category": "Payments",
      "policyName": "Restricted businesses list",
      "url": "https://stripe.com/legal/restricted-businesses",
      "clause": "Incorrectly labeled research chemicals",
      "policyDate": "Last updated: 2026-09-22",
      "lastChecked": "2026-09-24",
      "status": "Restricts pharma or drugs"
    },
    {
      "id": "shopify",
      "platform": "Shopify",
      "category": "Storefronts",
      "policyName": "Acceptable use policy",
      "url": "https://www.shopify.com/legal/aup",
      "clause": "You can't use Shopify to do anything that's illegal where you do business. ... We don't like to see people try to \"game\" systems to avoid constraints they don't agree with.",
      "policyDate": "Not printed",
      "lastChecked": "2026-09-24",
      "status": "Not mentioned"
    },
    {
      "id": "meta",
      "platform": "Meta",
      "category": "Ad platforms",
      "policyName": "Ad Standards: Drugs and pharmaceuticals",
      "url": "https://transparency.meta.com/policies/ad-standards/restricted-goods-services/drugs-pharmaceuticals/",
      "clause": "Advertisers can’t run ads that promote the sale or use of illicit or recreational drugs, or other unsafe substances, products or supplements, as determined by Meta at its sole discretion.",
      "policyDate": "Not printed",
      "lastChecked": "2026-09-24",
      "status": "Restricts pharma or drugs"
    },
    {
      "id": "google-ads",
      "platform": "Google Ads",
      "category": "Ad platforms",
      "policyName": "Healthcare and medicines policy",
      "url": "https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/176031",
      "clause": "Google doesn't allow the promotion of certain products, regardless of any claims of legality: ... All items on this non-exhaustive list of unapproved pharmaceuticals and supplements",
      "policyDate": "Not printed",
      "lastChecked": "2026-09-24",
      "status": "Restricts pharma or drugs"
    },
    {
      "id": "tiktok-ads",
      "platform": "TikTok Ads",
      "category": "Ad platforms",
      "policyName": "Healthcare and pharmaceuticals policy",
      "url": "https://ads.tiktok.com/help/article/tiktok-ads-policy-healthcare-pharmaceuticals",
      "clause": "Some healthcare-related content cannot be advertised at all, while others can be advertised with restrictions in place.",
      "policyDate": "Last updated: August 2026",
      "lastChecked": "2026-09-24",
      "status": "Restricts pharma or drugs"
    },
    {
      "id": "fda-warning-letter",
      "platform": "FDA warning letter",
      "category": "Regulators",
      "policyName": "Warning letter, 24 August 2026",
      "url": "https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/warning-letters/peptide-partners-llc-735063-08242026",
      "clause": "Despite statements on your product labeling marketing your products 'for research use only' and 'not for human or veterinary use,' evidence obtained from your website establishes that your products are intended to be drugs for human use.",
      "policyDate": "Letter dated 2026-08-24",
      "lastChecked": "2026-09-24",
      "status": "Restricts pharma or drugs"
    },
    {
      "id": "fda-bulk-substances-list",
      "platform": "FDA bulk substances list",
      "category": "Regulators",
      "policyName": "Bulk drug substances list",
      "url": "https://www.fda.gov/drugs/human-drug-compounding/certain-bulk-drug-substances-use-compounding-may-present-significant-safety-risks",
      "clause": "Bulk drug substances used in compounding may present significant safety risks.",
      "policyDate": "Content current as of 04/22/2026",
      "lastChecked": "2026-09-24",
      "status": "Restricts pharma or drugs"
    }
  ]
}