By accessing or using the Meridian Research website and purchasing products, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree, do not use this site or place any orders. These terms apply to all visitors, users, and customers.

You must meet all of the following criteria to purchase from Meridian Research:

• You are at least 21 years of age.
• You are a qualified researcher, scientist, laboratory professional, or otherwise authorized to handle research-grade compounds.
• You are purchasing for legitimate laboratory research, scientific study, or experimental purposes only.
• Your purchase and use of the products complies with all applicable local, state, and federal laws in your jurisdiction.
• You are not purchasing on behalf of any person who does not meet the above criteria.

Meridian Research reserves the right to refuse service, cancel orders, or close accounts if we have reason to believe eligibility requirements are not met.

All products sold by Meridian Research are supplied exclusively for in vitro laboratory research, scientific study, and experimental purposes. These are research chemicals. They are not consumer products. By placing an order you explicitly acknowledge and agree that:

• Products are not for human or animal consumption under any circumstances, without exception.
• Products are not intended for ingestion, injection, inhalation, or topical application by humans or animals.
• Products are not for therapeutic, diagnostic, preventive, or veterinary use.
• Products are not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or any equivalent regulatory authority for human or clinical use.
• Products are not dietary supplements, drugs, nutraceuticals, or medical devices as defined by the FDA or applicable law.
• You will handle all compounds in a properly equipped laboratory environment in accordance with applicable safety standards.
• You will not use, administer, or distribute products in any manner inconsistent with their research-only and experimental designation.

Any use of Meridian Research products outside of controlled laboratory or experimental settings is a violation of these Terms and may constitute a violation of applicable law. Meridian Research bears no liability for any such misuse.

You may not use Meridian Research products for any of the following:

• Human or animal consumption, ingestion, injection, inhalation, or topical application of any kind.
• Self-experimentation or administration to any individual outside of an approved clinical or research setting.
• Resale as a consumer product, dietary supplement, or pharmaceutical without appropriate regulatory authorization.
• Use in clinical trials or human subjects research without proper institutional review board (IRB) approval and applicable regulatory filings.
• Any use that violates applicable federal, state, or local laws or regulations.
• Distribution to individuals who do not meet the eligibility requirements in Section 2.

Product descriptions, specifications, and certificates of analysis are provided for informational and research reference purposes only. We make reasonable efforts to ensure accuracy but do not guarantee that all information is complete or error-free.

Prices are listed in U.S. dollars and are subject to change without notice. We reserve the right to cancel or refuse any order for any reason, including suspected misuse, suspected resale for human consumption, or inability to verify eligibility.

An order confirmation does not constitute acceptance of your order. Acceptance occurs when your order ships. If we cancel an order after payment, a full refund will be issued.

We accept payment by card through PayPal, including the funding options PayPal presents to you at checkout (such as a debit or credit card, or a PayPal balance). The exact options available are shown at checkout and are determined by PayPal, not by us. Payment is handled by the provider; Meridian Research does not collect, store, or retain your card numbers or bank details. All sales are denominated in U.S. dollars.

We ship to addresses in the United States only. Checkout does not accept a non-U.S. shipping address, and an order to one cannot be placed. We do not currently offer international shipping, and nothing on this site should be read as an offer to ship outside the United States.

Lyophilized and temperature-sensitive compounds are shipped with appropriate cold-chain packaging. Title transfers to you upon handoff to the carrier; if a shipment is lost or arrives damaged, see the Replacement Guarantee in our Refund Policy.

It is your sole responsibility to ensure that possessing or using the purchased compounds is legal in your jurisdiction. Meridian Research is not responsible for orders seized, delayed, or refused by regulatory authorities.

All sales are final. We do not accept returns. We do not issue refunds. No exceptions. Due to the perishable and research-grade nature of our products, once an order ships, the transaction is complete and no refund, exchange, credit, or replacement will be issued under any circumstances.

Products are provided "as is" for research and experimental purposes only. Meridian Research makes no warranties, express or implied, regarding fitness for any particular research purpose, results of any experiment, or outcomes of any use. We expressly disclaim any warranty that our products are safe or suitable for human or animal use. We do not warrant that products are free from all contaminants beyond the purity levels stated in the applicable certificate of analysis.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Meridian Research and its officers, employees, and agents shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your purchase or use of products, including any injury, harm, or damage resulting from misuse or use in violation of these terms. Our total liability for any claim arising from a specific order shall not exceed the amount paid for that order.

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Meridian Research, its affiliates, officers, and employees from any claims, damages, losses, or expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your use of products in violation of these terms, your breach of any applicable law, any injury or harm resulting from non-research use of our products, or any misrepresentation you make in connection with your purchase.

This site does not host user-generated content today. There is no review, rating-submission, comment, forum, profile, or file-upload feature. This section is written in advance so that these terms are already in force on the day such a feature is enabled, and it applies automatically to any user content feature we later introduce.

For the purposes of this section, "user content" means anything you submit, post, or upload for publication on the site. Messages you send us privately through the contact form or by email are support correspondence, not user content, and are not published.

Ownership and licence. You keep ownership of your user content. By submitting it you grant Meridian Research a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable licence to host, store, reproduce, reformat, publish, and display that content in connection with operating, marketing, and promoting the site. The licence ends when you delete the content or we remove it, except that copies already made in routine backups may persist until they are overwritten, and any copy already shared with a third party under the licence is unaffected.

Your representations. By submitting user content you confirm that you own it or have the rights needed to grant the licence above, that it does not infringe anyone else's intellectual property or privacy rights, and that it is not unlawful.

Content that is not permitted. You may not submit user content that includes:

• Accounts of human or animal use of any material sold here, including reports of personal use, self-experimentation, or administration to another person or animal.
• Administration instructions of any kind, including injection, dosing, dosage, or preparation instructions.
• Any claim that a material diagnoses, treats, cures, mitigates, or prevents a disease or medical condition, or any other health, therapeutic, cosmetic, or performance outcome claim.
• Medical, veterinary, or clinical advice, or any recommendation that a material be used as a drug, food, cosmetic, or dietary supplement.
• Another person's personal information, or confidential information you are not entitled to publish.
• Content that is unlawful, infringing, deceptive, defamatory, harassing, or that impersonates another person.
• Advertising, spam, malware, or links intended to circumvent these Terms.

No endorsement. User content is the view of the person who submitted it. Meridian Research does not verify, endorse, or adopt user content, and it is not analytical data. Nothing in user content amends a certificate of analysis or any specification we publish.

Removal and enforcement. We may remove, refuse to publish, reformat, or edit user content at any time, with or without notice, and we may suspend or close accounts that repeatedly submit content that is not permitted. We are under no obligation to monitor user content, and monitoring some content does not oblige us to monitor all of it.

If we later enable reviews or ratings, we will not condition any incentive on the sentiment of a review, will disclose any material connection between a reviewer and Meridian Research, and will not suppress or edit reviews to remove negative but non-violating feedback.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of [GOVERNING STATE], without regard to its conflict of law principles, and by applicable U.S. federal law. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

Section 14 requires most disputes to be resolved by individual arbitration. For any claim that is not subject to arbitration under Section 14 — including a claim brought in small claims court, a claim seeking injunctive relief for intellectual property, and any claim if Section 14 is held unenforceable — the exclusive venue is the state or federal courts located in [ARBITRATION VENUE], and you consent to personal jurisdiction there.

PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY — IT AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS. IT REQUIRES MOST DISPUTES BETWEEN YOU AND MERIDIAN RESEARCH TO BE RESOLVED BY INDIVIDUAL BINDING ARBITRATION INSTEAD OF IN COURT. YOU AND MERIDIAN RESEARCH EACH WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL AND THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION. YOU MAY OPT OUT OF THIS SECTION WITHIN 30 DAYS — SEE SUBSECTION (g).

(a) Informal resolution first. Before starting an arbitration, the complaining party must send the other a written notice describing the dispute and the relief sought — you to support@meridianresearchllc.net, and us to the email address on your account. Both parties agree to attempt in good faith to resolve the dispute for 60 days from that notice. This step is a condition of starting an arbitration, and the limitation period for the claim is paused while it runs.

(b) Agreement to arbitrate. Except as stated in subsections (f) and (h), you and Meridian Research agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms, the site, an account, or any purchase — whether based in contract, tort, statute, or any other legal theory — will be resolved exclusively by final and binding individual arbitration. This Section is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. sections 1 et seq. Questions about the formation, scope, or enforceability of this Section are for a court to decide, not the arbitrator.

(c) Arbitration provider and rules. Arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, as modified by this Section, before a single arbitrator. The rules are published at adr.org. If the AAA is unavailable or declines to administer the arbitration consistently with this Section, the parties will agree on an alternative administrator, or a court may appoint one. The arbitrator may award any relief that a court could award to that individual party, and the award may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction.

(d) Where the arbitration happens. If a hearing is needed, it will be held in [ARBITRATION VENUE], in the county where you live, or by telephone or video conference, at your election. Claims of USD 25,000 or less may be resolved on written submissions alone unless either party requests a hearing.

(e) Fees. Filing, administrative, and arbitrator fees are governed by the AAA rules. For any claim you bring seeking less than USD 10,000, Meridian Research will pay those fees, except that the arbitrator may reallocate them if the arbitrator finds the claim was frivolous or brought for an improper purpose. Each party bears its own legal fees and costs unless the arbitrator awards them under applicable law. Nothing here requires you to pay fees that would make arbitration prohibitively expensive relative to going to court.

(f) Class action and jury trial waiver. YOU AND MERIDIAN RESEARCH EACH WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY AND THE RIGHT TO BRING OR PARTICIPATE IN ANY CLASS, COLLECTIVE, CONSOLIDATED, OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION. The arbitrator may award relief only to the individual party seeking it, and only to the extent needed to remedy that party's own claim. Claims of two or more people may not be arbitrated together. If a court decides this subsection (f) is unenforceable as to a particular claim or a particular request for relief, then that claim or that request — and only that one — must proceed in court, and the rest of this Section still applies to everything else.

(g) Your right to opt out — 30 days. You may reject this Section by sending written notice to support@meridianresearchllc.net within 30 days of the date you first accept these Terms, or, if you already had an account when this Section was first posted, within 30 days of that posting date. Your notice must state your name, the email address on your account, and a clear statement that you opt out of the arbitration agreement in Section 14. Opting out affects nothing else in these Terms, and we will not close your account or refuse you service for opting out. If you opt out, disputes are resolved in the courts identified in Section 13.

(h) Exceptions. Either party may bring an individual claim in small claims court, so long as it stays in small claims court and stays individual. Either party may also ask a court for temporary or permanent injunctive relief to stop infringement or misuse of intellectual property. Nothing in this Section prevents you from reporting a matter to a government agency, or bars a claim that applicable law says cannot be arbitrated.

(i) Changes and survival. If we change this Section after you accept it, you may reject the change by sending us notice within 30 days of the change, in which case the most recent version you accepted continues to govern disputes between us. This Section survives the closing of your account and the end of your relationship with Meridian Research.

We may update these terms at any time. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised date. Continued use of the site after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the revised terms, except as stated in Section 14(i) for the arbitration agreement.

Questions about these terms: support@meridianresearchllc.net

Notices to Meridian Research under these Terms may be sent to that address and to [ENTITY NAME], [REGISTERED ADDRESS].