Independent referrer & affiliate terms

Referral-code holders are independent third-party marketing entities. They are never employees, partners, joint venturers, or agents of Vitality Chems. Vitality Chems is a separate legal entity and is not responsible for content published by independent referrers.

1. Independent contractor

Every referrer is an independent contractor. Accepting a referral code creates no employment, agency, partnership, or joint-venture relationship. There is no W-2, W-4, employee withholding, salary, benefits, workers' compensation, or unemployment coverage. Referrers choose their own schedules, equipment, platforms, and methods, and bear their own costs.

No authority to bind. A referrer may not sign, promise, quote terms, make warranties, or speak for Vitality Chems, and nothing a referrer says or publishes binds Vitality Chems.

Own content, own claims. Each referrer is solely responsible for everything they create, post, or say, and for making sure it is truthful, disclosed (section 4), and research-use-only compliant (section 3).

2. Taxes: yours, and no forms to us

• Referrers never file or send tax forms to Vitality Chems. No W-9, W-8, SSN, or EIN is collected by us to join, share a code, or get paid.
• Commission on codes created from 2026-11-09: 20% cash or 23% store credit on a referred customer's first paid order, then 12% cash or 15% credit on every repeat order for life; partners with $1,500+ in referred paid sales in a month earn 20% / 23% on all orders. Codes created earlier keep the rates stored on them. Commission on any single order is capped so the order keeps a 25% margin for Vitality Chems (this lowers commission on a few low-margin items); Lab Rewards do not accrue on orders placed with an affiliate code. Store credit is spent on our store, with no forms at any volume.
• Cash payouts go through a third-party payout provider (PayPal, or bank deposit through Stripe where offered). Any identity, tax-ID, or tax-form information is given by the referrer directly to that provider, which handles any information return (Form 1099-K or 1099-NEC) it is required to issue. Vitality Chems may decline a cash method that would require it to collect tax forms itself and offer one of the others.
• Referrers are solely responsible for reporting and paying all of their own income, self-employment, sales, VAT/GST, and local taxes, and for all of their own filings, in every jurisdiction.

3. Research-use-only compliance firewall

Vitality Chems supplies strictly in-vitro laboratory research reagents(“Not for human or veterinary consumption”). Referrers are strictly prohibited from making any human or animal consumption, dosing, injection, reconstitution-for-administration, weight-loss, muscle-building, therapeutic, diagnostic, or pharmaceutical brand-name claims.

4. Required disclosure of the paid relationship (FTC)

• Referrers must disclose that they earn a commission or store credit from Vitality Chems in every post, video, story, livestream, email, review, or ad that uses their code or link (FTC Endorsement Guides, 16 CFR Part 255, including § 255.5).
• The disclosure must be clear and conspicuous: in plain words such as “Ad”, “Paid partnership”, or “I earn a commission from this link”, placed next to the link or claim, visible without clicking “more”, and spoken as well as shown in video or audio. A hashtag buried among others, or a disclosure only on a profile or “about” page, is not enough.
• Referrers may not post fake reviews or present themselves as an independent or unpaid customer.
• Vitality Chems reviews referrer content it finds or is told about. Missing or unclear disclosures are a breach of these terms and may lead to code deactivation and forfeiture of unpaid commission.

4a. Ranks and recruit overrides: customer sales only

• Every commission and override is a percentage of a real outside customer's paid order. Nothing is ever paid for signing up, recruiting, or anyone's own purchases, and own purchases never count toward a rank.
• Overrides go at most 2 levels up: the affiliate who recruited the referrer (level 1) and that affiliate's recruiter (level 2). Rates by the earner's rank: Partner 3% / 0%; Pro 5% / 1%; Elite 6% / 1.5%; Ambassador 7% / 2%.
• Ranks (Partner, Pro, Elite, Ambassador) are set automatically by outside-customer sales over the trailing 90 days (personal, and for Ambassador also the team's) and by recruits who themselves have paid outside-customer sales; sign-ups alone never count. A referrer who introduces a wholesale or white-label client that Vitality Chems supplies is an Ambassador while that client is active and may earn a one-time referral reward of five percent (5%) of that client's first paid wholesale invoice only, hard-capped at two hundred fifty dollars ($250) and further reduced if needed so the order keeps the store's profit floor. Later invoices for that client do not earn another reward.
• There is no fee, starter kit, inventory, training purchase or minimum order to join, reach a rank, or stay active. Vitality Chems never sells to referrers for resale.
• Overrides are paid only from an order's margin above the store's profit floor and never reduce the recruit's own commission or the customer's discount.
• Income disclosure. Earnings depend entirely on real customer purchases made through your links and codes, and through the codes of affiliates you introduce. Most affiliates earn little or nothing. We make no promise or estimate of income. Nothing is paid for signing anyone up. There is no fee, kit, inventory or purchase required to join, to reach a rank or to stay in the program, and your own purchases never count. This is a referral program, not a business opportunity. Referrers may not make income claims or describe the program as a job or a business opportunity when inviting others.

4b. No self-referral: how we check

• Codes earn only on real, paid orders from other people. Referral credit and affiliate commission are held (customer referral credit for 14 days, affiliate commission for the normal hold) and cancelled if the order is refunded, cancelled or disputed.
• We compare each referred order with the code owner's account: IP address and network, browser, email (including dots and +tags), phone, shipping address, name and the owner's own orders and sign-ins. Any match holds the reward for staff review; confirmed self-referrals earn nothing and may end the code.
• A network or browser can create codes for a limited number of accounts. These checks use one-way hashes as described in our privacy policy.

5. Indemnification & kill-switch

Referrers will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Vitality Chems and its owners from any claims, losses, damages, penalties, taxes, or expenses (including reasonable attorney fees) arising from their content, posts, videos, statements, or conduct; from any claim that they are an employee or agent; from their own taxes and filings; or from their breach of these terms or the law. Publishing human-use or otherwise non-compliant claims triggers automatic immediate code termination and commission forfeiture. Staff can Deactivate or Delete any rogue code in Admin → Affiliates & Codes in one action.

6. Separate entity

How a referrer chooses to promote the storefront is up to them, provided they follow these terms (including the disclosure rules in section 4) and applicable law. Vitality Chems does not control, endorse, or assume liability for independent third-party marketing. Program overview and join flow: /affiliates.