How we are funded
PeptideClear takes no commission, no referral fee and no payment of any kind from the retailers, clinics, pharmacies or brands it writes about. Every outbound link on this site is an ordinary link with no tracking attached, and we earn nothing whether you click it or not. That has been true since 19 July 2026, when we removed the affiliate arrangements the site previously operated.
What changed, and when
Until July 2026 this page disclosed referral fees of roughly £20 to £150 per converted referral, and outbound links carried affiliate tracking. We have removed all of it: the tracking parameters, the Awin redirectors and the commercial arrangements behind them. We are saying so plainly rather than quietly deleting the old page, because a site that asks you to trust its scoring should show its own history.
What this means in practice
- · You pay nothing to use PeptideClear, and there is nothing to register for.
- · No retailer, clinic or pharmacy pays PeptideClear's editorial operation anything for coverage, and none of them can buy a better score.
- · Outbound links are plain links. They carry no affiliate parameter, no referral code and no redirector.
- · No listing, ranking or tier on this site can be bought, because there is nothing to buy it with.
- · We do not run third-party display advertising, and we do not sell your data to anyone.
What about Independent Verification?
PeptideClear also offers a paid Independent Verification service for research-peptide retailers, and it's worth being direct about how that fits with everything above. The work is commissioned and invoiced through LionCrownX Ltd, a commercial entity separate from PeptideClear's editorial and publishing operation. PeptideClear itself does not receive that payment, does not decide who is invited to commission it, and cannot let it change a CoA tier or Responsible Practice status computed the same way for every retailer, paid or not. What the fee buys is the labour of running a defined set of digital-evidence checks and publishing whatever they find, favourable or not. Full rules on the Independent Verification page.
Why this matters for the Trust Index
The PeptideClear Trust Index scores UK sellers on six observable certificate-of-analysis signals. The obvious objection to any such ranking is that the people publishing it are paid by the people in it. That objection no longer applies here. The score was always mechanical and reproducible from our published data, and now there is no commercial relationship behind it either.
The honest downside
Removing the revenue does not make the site free to run. Verifying retailers, refreshing datasets, checking citations against source and tracking regulatory activity all cost time and money, and that work is now unfunded by the sector it covers. We would rather tell you that than pretend independence is costless. If the funding position changes, this page changes first and the date above changes with it.
What we still will not do
- · We do not write favourable copy for anyone, paid or unpaid.
- · We do not accept payment to remove or soften negative editorial. There is no mechanism to.
- · We do not promote compounded GLP-1, grey-import medication, or unlicensed sources of prescription-only medicines.
- · We do not recommend a specific medicine or product to a specific person. Your prescriber decides.
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