DMCA Policy
This page explains how Pepticore protects the copyrighted content on this site — including our product photography, lot-specific Certificates of Analysis, and brand assets — and sets out the exact procedure for filing a takedown notice, submitting a counter-notification, and how repeat infringement is handled, in line with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
The short version
The written content, photography, layout, Certificates of Analysis formatting, and brand assets on Pepticore.co are the original work of Renaissance Wave LLC, and we respect the same rights in others’ work. If you believe material on this site infringes a copyright you own, this page tells you exactly how to notify us, what your notice must contain, who receives it, and how quickly we act. If you believe your own content was removed by mistake, it also explains how to file a counter-notification.
This policy addresses copyright under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act only. Trademark, patent, and other intellectual-property concerns are handled separately — see our Legal Notice page.
Our commitment to copyright, and what we own
Renaissance Wave LLC, operating as Pepticore, invests directly in the content that appears on Pepticore.co: original product photography of every vial and lot, the lot-specific Certificates of Analysis we commission from independent testing laboratories and format for publication in our certificate vault, our written research-use product descriptions, the Pepticore name and logo, our site design, layout, and the code and animation that make up this website. All of this is protected under U.S. copyright law the moment it is created, and Renaissance Wave LLC owns it outright unless a specific page states otherwise.
We take copyright seriously in both directions. We do not tolerate unauthorized copying of our own material by third parties, such as another seller reusing our vial photography or reformatting our Certificates of Analysis as their own, and we equally do not tolerate the unauthorized use of someone else’s copyrighted work anywhere on Pepticore.co. This Policy exists to give copyright owners a clear, fast path to raise a concern, and to protect anyone we host content from being removed without a fair, documented process.
What content is protected on this site
Product & vial photography
Every image of a peptide vial, packaging shot, or lifestyle photo on our listings is shot and owned by us.
Certificate of Analysis formatting
The lot-specific layout, branding, and presentation of each COA in our certificate vault is our original work product.
Catalog copy & research descriptions
Our written descriptions of each peptide’s research background are drafted in-house, not copied from another supplier.
Site design, logo & code
The Pepticore name, logo, layout, animation system, and underlying code are proprietary to Renaissance Wave LLC.
What this Policy does not cover
Where our pages reference or summarize published third-party research literature for scientific context, the underlying studies remain the copyrighted work of their original authors and publishers — we cite that literature, we do not claim to own it. This Policy also does not cover trademark disputes (such as use of the Pepticore name), which are addressed in our Legal Notice, or complaints about product quality or order fulfilment, which are addressed in our Return & Refund Policy.
How to file a DMCA takedown notice, step by step
If you believe material on Pepticore.co infringes a copyright you own or are authorized to enforce, follow the steps below. A notice that is missing any required element under Section 4 may delay or prevent action, so please review that section before you send it.
Confirm you are the right party
You must be the copyright owner, or someone legally authorized to act on the owner’s behalf, for the specific work in question.
Gather the required elements
Assemble every item listed in Section 4 below — incomplete notices cannot be processed under the statute.
Send it to our designated agent
Email contact@pepticore.co with the subject line “DMCA Takedown Notice.”
Receive acknowledgment
We confirm receipt and log your notice, generally within one business day, per our published support hours.
We review and act
Our compliance team reviews the notice for completeness and, where warranted, removes or disables access to the identified material expeditiously.
Notice to the uploader
Where the flagged material was submitted by a third party (for example, a customer review), we notify them and explain their counter-notification rights under Section 7.
Required elements of a valid takedown notice
Federal law sets out exactly what a takedown notice must contain before it can trigger our safe-harbor removal obligations. Your notice must include all six of the following:
- A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or a person authorized to act on the owner’s behalf.
- Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or a representative list if the notice covers multiple works.
- Identification of the material claimed to be infringing, with enough detail — ideally the exact page URL — for us to locate it on Pepticore.co.
- Your contact information: name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address, so we can reach you if we need clarification.
- A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
- A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf.
A notice missing any of the six elements above does not satisfy 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), and we may be unable to act on it until it is corrected and resubmitted.
Our designated DMCA agent
In accordance with 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(2), Renaissance Wave LLC has designated the following agent to receive takedown notifications on behalf of Pepticore.co. Please direct all DMCA correspondence — takedown notices and counter-notifications alike — to this contact, not to general customer support, so it reaches our compliance team without delay.
Notices sent to any other Pepticore address, including sales or order-support inboxes, may take longer to reach our designated agent and are not treated as a formal DMCA submission until forwarded.
Agent contact
DMCA Agent — Renaissance Wave LLC
Email: contact@pepticore.co
Phone: +1 (571) 688-3488
Mail: 2108 N St Ste N, Sacramento, CA 95816, United States
What happens after we receive a valid notice
Once we receive a complete notice, our compliance team logs the date, the material identified, and the complaining party’s contact details, then reviews the claim against the content on the page in question. Where the notice is valid and the claim is not obviously mistaken or abusive on its face, we remove or disable access to the identified material expeditiously, consistent with the safe-harbor standard under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c). We do not investigate the underlying merits of a copyright dispute beyond confirming the notice is properly formed — that determination is ultimately for the parties and, if necessary, a court.
Filing a counter-notification
If content you submitted to Pepticore.co was removed because of a takedown notice, and you believe it was removed by mistake or as a result of misidentification, you may send us a counter-notification. Like the original notice, a valid counter-notification must include specific elements:
Your signature
Your physical or electronic signature.
Identification of the removed material
Identification of the material and its location on Pepticore.co before it was removed or disabled.
A good-faith statement, under penalty of perjury
That you have a good-faith belief the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.
Your name, address & phone number
Plus a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the district that includes your address (or, if outside the U.S., any district where Pepticore may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice.
What happens next
We forward your counter-notification to the party who filed the original takedown notice. Unless that party informs us they have filed a court action seeking to restrain you from the disputed activity, we will restore the removed material within 10 to 14 business days of receiving your counter-notification, as required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(2)(C). Send counter-notifications to the same designated agent listed in Section 5, with the subject line “DMCA Counter-Notification.”
Repeat infringer policy
Pepticore.co maintains and enforces a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the account access of any customer, reviewer, or other party who is a repeat infringer of copyright. A person is generally treated as a repeat infringer where two or more valid, unretracted DMCA notices identify material they submitted as infringing.
Where a repeat-infringement threshold is met, we may permanently suspend or terminate the individual’s account, revoke their ability to submit reviews or other content to the site, and decline future submissions from them. A party subject to termination retains the right to respond through the counter-notification process described in Section 7 for any individual notice they believe was filed in error before termination is finalized.
Misrepresentation and liability for false claims
Before filing a notice or counter-notification, please be certain the claim is accurate. Federal law imposes real consequences for bad-faith submissions: under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), any person who knowingly and materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that it was removed by mistake, can be held liable for damages — including the costs and attorney’s fees incurred by the party harmed by the misrepresentation, and by Pepticore in relying on it. We reserve the right to disregard notices we reasonably believe were submitted in bad faith and to take appropriate action against the submitting party.
The federal and state legal framework behind this policy
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
This Policy is built around 17 U.S.C. § 512, the DMCA’s safe-harbor provisions, which set the notice-and-takedown, counter-notification, designated-agent, and repeat-infringer requirements described above.
The Copyright Act of 1976
Underlying ownership questions — what qualifies as a protectable original work, and who owns it — are governed by Title 17 of the U.S. Code more broadly, which is federal law and preempts most state-law copyright claims.
FTC Act, Section 5
Our public statements about ownership and enforcement on this page are held to the same truthful-advertising standard the Federal Trade Commission applies across our site, described further in our Legal Notice.
State-level consumer protection
Copyright itself is exclusively a matter of federal law, so no individual state adds its own DMCA-style takedown statute, and federal law preempts conflicting state copyright claims. That said, the consumer protection and unfair-or-deceptive-trade-practice statutes of all fifty states and the District of Columbia continue to apply to how any business communicates about a takedown or dispute — we do not use this process to make false or misleading statements to customers. As a California-registered business operating from Sacramento, we additionally hold ourselves to California’s Business & Professions Code §§ 17200 and 17500 in how we describe and enforce this Policy, and this Policy is governed by California law, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles, consistent with our Terms of Service.
How this policy fits with our other legal pages
This DMCA Policy addresses copyright specifically and supplements, rather than replaces, our other legal documentation. For the full terms governing your purchase and use of Pepticore.co, see our Terms of Service. For questions about the Research Use Only status of our products, see our Research Use Only Disclaimer. For company registration details and other intellectual-property matters such as trademark use of the Pepticore name, see our Legal Notice. For how we handle personal data submitted with a notice or counter-notification, see our Privacy Policy.
Changes to this DMCA Policy
We review this Policy periodically and update it whenever our designated agent’s contact details change, our takedown process changes, or applicable copyright law is amended. The “last updated” date at the top of this page always reflects the current version. Continued use of Pepticore.co after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised Policy.
Reach our DMCA agent directly
Whether you’re filing a takedown notice, a counter-notification, or just have a question about this Policy, our compliance team responds within one business day.