Ambassador Agreement

Vantage Aminos: Ambassador / Affiliate Agreement

Version: 1.0
Effective: 2026-06-14
Company / “Vantage”: Stratum Ventures LLC d/b/a Vantage Aminos, a Texas
limited liability company (the “Company,” “Vantage,” “we,” “us“).
Program platform: SliceWP affiliate plugin on vantageaminos.co, program
page /ambassador.
Governing notice: Vantage sells Research Use Only (“RUO”) materials.
This is the controlling fact of the entire program. Read §5 first.

1. Parties, Eligibility & Acceptance

1.1 Parties. This Ambassador / Affiliate Agreement (the “Agreement“) is
between the Company and the individual or entity who applies to and is accepted
into the Vantage Aminos ambassador program (the “Ambassador,” “you“).

1.2 Eligibility. To participate you must:
– (a) be at least twenty-one (21) years of age (the same age gate that
governs the Vantage storefront);
– (b) reside in and promote only within the United States, unless Vantage
approves another jurisdiction in writing;
– (c) have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract, and, if applying
as an entity, have authority to bind that entity;
– (d) provide accurate identity, contact, payment, and (where required) tax
information; and
– (e) not be a current Vantage employee, contractor, supplier, or a member of
their household, except where expressly approved in writing.

1.3 Application & approval. Participation is by application and is granted
at Vantage’s sole discretion. Vantage may approve, decline, suspend, or
remove any applicant or Ambassador at any time, with or without cause, subject
to the payment terms in §8.

1.4 No employment / independent status. You are an independent contractor.
Nothing in this Agreement creates an employment, agency, partnership, joint
venture, or franchise relationship. You have no authority to bind Vantage, to
make representations on its behalf beyond approved marketing assets, or to
incur obligations in its name. You are solely responsible for your own taxes,
expenses, equipment, and personnel.

1.5 Acceptance. Enrolling in the program, accepting program credentials,
posting a tracked link, or accepting any commission constitutes acceptance of
this Agreement, the Ambassador Compliance Acknowledgment (the onboarding
cheat-sheet), and the Vantage site Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, each as
amended from time to time.

2. The Program

2.1 What you do. As an Ambassador you promote Vantage Aminos products
through your own lawful channels using a unique tracking link and/or coupon
code issued through SliceWP. When a customer you refer completes a qualifying
purchase, you earn a commission under §7-§8.

2.2 Non-exclusive. The program is non-exclusive. You may promote other
companies (subject to §6), and Vantage may run other programs and channels.

2.3 Changes. Vantage may modify the program, commission rates, cookie
window, creative, product catalog, or these terms prospectively at any time by
posting an updated version or notifying you. Continued participation after a
change is acceptance of it. Changes are not retroactive to commissions
already validly earned.

3. FTC Material-Connection Disclosure: MANDATORY

You are a paid endorser of Vantage. Federal law (the FTC’s Guides Concerning
the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising, 16 CFR Part 255)
requires that your audience be told about that relationship. Compliance with
this Section is a material term of this Agreement; a violation is grounds
for immediate termination and commission clawback under §11.

3.1 You must disclose the material connection. Every time you mention,
review, link to, tag, or otherwise promote Vantage or its products (in any
medium, paid or organic), you must clearly and conspicuously disclose that
you have a material connection to Vantage (that you are compensated, earn a
commission, and/or received free or discounted product). Disclosure is required
even if your post is genuinely your own honest opinion. See 16 CFR 255.5
(disclosure of material connections) and 16 CFR 255.1 (general).

3.2 “Clear and conspicuous,” defined (16 CFR 255.0(f)). A disclosure is
clear and conspicuous only if it is difficult to miss (easily noticeable) and
easily understandable by ordinary consumers. Apply all of the following:
– (a) Unavoidable. The disclosure must be visible/audible without the viewer
having to take any action to find it. If your endorsement is visible but the
disclosure only appears after clicking “more,” scrolling past a fold, expanding
a caption, or following a link, it is not unavoidable and therefore not
clear and conspicuous.
– (b) Same medium / same means. If the endorsement is visual, the disclosure
must appear in the visual portion; if audible, in the audible portion; if both,
in both. A spoken endorsement in a video requires a spoken (or
superimposed, persistent on-screen) disclosure: a description-box line alone
is insufficient.
– (c) Stands out. By size, color, contrast, location, and duration, the
disclosure must stand out from surrounding content so it is easily noticed,
read, and understood. On video it must remain on screen long enough to be read.
– (d) Plain language. Use plain terms an ordinary consumer understands, e.g.
“advertisement,” “ad,” “sponsored,” “paid partnership,” or a
plain sentence such as “Vantage Aminos is paying me / I earn a commission on
sales through my link.” Ambiguous tags (“#sp,” “#collab,” “#ambassador,”
“thanks Vantage,” “#partner” alone) are not sufficient.
– (e) No contradiction. The disclosure must not be contradicted, muddied, or
undercut by other content.

3.3 Placement rules (no buried disclosures).
– Place the disclosure at the start of the post/caption and before any
“more”/expand cut-off, not at the end of a long caption or buried in a block of
hashtags. Burying #ad at the end of multiple hashtags does not comply.
– In video / Reels / TikTok / Shorts / YouTube, include the disclosure
both in the spoken audio and as persistent on-screen text early in the
video; built-in platform “Paid partnership” / “Includes paid promotion” labels
are encouraged but not sufficient on their own.
– In livestreams, repeat the disclosure periodically so viewers who join
mid-stream still receive it.
– In stories, short video, or any disappearing/auto-advancing format, the
disclosure must appear on each relevant frame for long enough to read.
– In text/blog/email, the disclosure must appear above the fold and adjacent
to the endorsement and link, in the same font size and style as body text, not
in a footer, a tooltip, or a separate page.

3.4 Approved disclosure lines. Vantage maintains an approved disclosure-line
library (see the onboarding cheat-sheet). You must use an approved line or one
that meets every requirement of §3.2-§3.3.

3.5 Liability is shared, and flows to you. Under the Guides, both the
advertiser and the endorser can be liable for deceptive or undisclosed
endorsements. You agree that your disclosure violations are your responsibility
and may be charged back to you and indemnified under §11 and §13.

4. [Reserved]

5. NO-CLAIMS / RESEARCH-USE-ONLY (RUO): STRICT, NON-NEGOTIABLE

Vantage products are sold for laboratory and research use only. They are
not drugs, dietary supplements, cosmetics, or articles for human or animal
consumption, and they are not FDA-approved or evaluated for safety or
efficacy. Your promotion must reflect this at all times. This Section is the
single most important compliance obligation in this Agreement. A breach is a
material breach permitting immediate termination and full clawback (§11) and
triggers your indemnity (§13).

5.1 RUO framing required. All of your content that mentions a Vantage product
must (a) identify it as a research chemical / research-use-only material and
(b) not encourage, depict, imply, or instruct human or animal use. When practical,
include “For research use only. Not for human or veterinary use” near the
product reference.

5.2 Absolutely prohibited claims. You must never, in any channel,
expressly or by implication:
– (a) make any medical, health, therapeutic, disease, “wellness,” anti-aging,
cosmetic, weight-loss, muscle/performance, sexual-function, or fertility
claim;
– (b) state or imply the product treats, cures, prevents, diagnoses, or
mitigates any condition, or produces any effect in the human or animal body;
– (c) provide or imply dosing, reconstitution-for-use, administration,
injection, cycling, “how to take,” stacking, or protocol information;
– (d) describe or depict human or animal use, including personal “results,”
before/after imagery, “I ran a cycle of,” testimonials of bodily effects, or
user transformation content;
– (e) compare the product to, or substitute it for, any approved drug or
brand (e.g., Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, Zepbound, semaglutide/tirzepatide/
retatrutide by approved-drug name, or any prescription medication), or position
it as a cheaper/legal alternative to a prescription product;
– (f) use approved-drug brand names, “GLP-1 for weight loss,” “peptide therapy,”
“TRT,” or similar consumer-health framing;
– (g) make any claim of purity, potency, sterility, or testing beyond the
exact language Vantage publishes on its own product pages / COAs; or
– (h) claim the product is FDA-approved, legal to consume, safe, or compliant for
any human/animal application.

5.3 GLP-1 / GLP-2 / GLP-3 products: heightened restriction. For
any GLP-class or weight-management-
adjacent SKU, the prohibitions in §5.2 are strictly enforced and weight-loss,
appetite, dosing, and approved-drug-comparison content is grounds for
immediate termination without notice. Do not pair these with reconstitution
supplies, “starter kit,” or human-use messaging of any kind.

5.4 Stay within approved copy. The safest path is to use Vantage-approved
copy and the on-site product descriptions. Do not improvise scientific or
benefit claims. If in doubt, ask Vantage before posting; do not post.

5.5 Your content is our liability. You acknowledge that under FDA and FTC
principles, claims an endorser makes can be attributed to the advertiser. You
therefore agree your content must independently satisfy this Section, and that
violations are indemnifiable by you under §13.

6. Prohibited Conduct

In addition to §3 and §5, you must not:

6.1 Spam. Send unsolicited bulk email, SMS, DMs, or messaging-app blasts;
violate CAN-SPAM, the TCPA, or any anti-spam law; or post your link as comment
spam.

6.2 Brand bidding / paid-search abuse. Bid on, or buy paid search/social
ads against, the Vantage brand terms (including “Vantage Aminos,” misspellings,
and vantageaminos.co), or direct-link such ads to the Vantage site, or use
Vantage trademarks in display URLs or ad copy, without prior written consent.
No typosquatting, no cybersquatting, no domains containing “vantage” or “vantage
aminos.”

6.3 Misleading scarcity / urgency / pricing. No fake countdowns, fabricated
“only X left,” invented sales, false discounts, or unauthorized coupon/price
claims. Promote only the prices, offers, and codes Vantage actually authorizes.

6.4 Self-dealing & fraud. No self-referrals for your own purchases, fake
orders, cookie stuffing, forced clicks, iframe/redirect tricks, incentivized or
bot traffic, coupon-site listing of unauthorized codes, or any manipulation of
tracking. Such activity voids the associated commissions and is grounds for
termination and clawback.

6.5 Off-brand / prohibited channels. No promotion on sites or content that
are obscene, hateful, harassing, violent, defamatory, illegal, infringing,
or that target minors; no channels primarily devoted to evading platform
peptide/health-product rules; no impersonation of Vantage, its staff, or its
suppliers; no creation of social accounts, pages, or domains that appear to be
official Vantage properties.

6.6 Coupon, deal, loyalty, and cashback sites require prior written approval.

6.7 No unauthorized statements. Do not speak for Vantage, announce products,
make warranty/return/shipping promises, or share non-public information.

7. License: Brand, Content & IP Usage

7.1 Limited license to you. Subject to your compliance, Vantage grants you a
limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license, during the term,
to use the Vantage name, logo, approved product images, and marketing assets
that Vantage provides or designates solely to promote Vantage products under
this Agreement. You must use assets as provided, without alteration to logos
or claims, and follow any brand guidelines Vantage issues.

7.2 Reservation. All trademarks, copyrights, product imagery, and other IP
remain the exclusive property of Vantage and its suppliers. No rights are granted
except as expressly stated. The license terminates automatically on termination
of this Agreement, and you must promptly remove Vantage marks and assets and
deactivate your links.

7.3 License from you to Vantage. You grant Vantage a non-exclusive,
royalty-free, worldwide license to use, reproduce, display, and repost the
content you publicly create promoting Vantage (e.g., to reshare your posts),
with attribution where reasonable, during and after the term. You represent you
have all rights necessary to grant this.

7.4 No registration. You will not register or attempt to register any Vantage
trademark, confusingly similar mark, domain, social handle, or app name.

8.1 Tracking. Referrals are tracked via your unique SliceWP affiliate link
and/or assigned coupon code. A purchase qualifies only if it is recorded and
attributed by SliceWP. Vantage’s records are the authoritative source for
clicks, referrals, and commissions. Vantage is not responsible for tracking
failures caused by the customer (ad blockers, cookie clearing, cross-device
purchases, using a different browser, or buying outside the cookie window).

8.2 Cookie / attribution window. The referral cookie window is sixty (60)
days from the customer’s click on your link (last-click attribution). If
multiple ambassadors referred a customer, the last valid referring link
within the window earns the commission unless Vantage’s posted policy states
otherwise.

8.3 Commission rate. The current base commission is 10% of the qualifying
product subtotal, as configured in SliceWP, unless you have been assigned a
different tier per the published commission structure (see
COMMISSION-STRUCTURE.md). Tiers and rates may be updated prospectively per §2.3.

8.4 What commission is paid on. Commission is calculated on the product
subtotal only, excluding shipping, taxes, fees, discounts/coupons,
gift-card amounts, and chargebacks/refunds. Commission is not earned on your own
purchases.

8.5 Qualifying / earned. A commission is “earned” only after the underlying
order has (a) been paid in full, (b) cleared Vantage’s order-hold and
fraud/compliance review, and (c) passed the refund/chargeback window. Orders
that are cancelled, refunded, charged back, fraudulent, or that violate this
Agreement do not earn commission, and any provisional commission for them is
reversed.

8.6 Payment. Earned commissions are paid monthly on net-30 terms,
within thirty (30) days after the close of the calendar month in which they
become earned, subject to a minimum payout threshold of $25, via Zelle,
Venmo, Cash App, or cryptocurrency (or another method Vantage designates in
writing). You are responsible for providing accurate payment details. Amounts
below the threshold roll forward to the next payment cycle.

8.7 Holdback. Vantage may hold or delay payment pending fraud, chargeback, or
compliance review, and may offset prior overpayments, reversed orders, or
clawbacks (§11) against current or future commissions.

9. Taxes / 1099

9.1 You are solely responsible for all taxes on your commissions. You are not an
employee and no taxes are withheld.

9.2 W-9 / 1099. Before any payout, U.S. ambassadors must provide a valid
IRS Form W-9 (or W-8 series for non-U.S. payees). If your annual commissions
meet the IRS reporting threshold, Vantage will issue a Form 1099 as required
by law. Vantage may withhold payment until valid tax documentation is on file,
and may apply backup withholding where required.

10. Term

This Agreement begins when you are accepted into / accept the program and
continues until terminated under §11. Either party may terminate at any time,
for any reason, with or without notice. Sections that by their nature survive
(including §3, §5, §7.2-§7.4, §8.4-§8.7, §9, §11-§16) survive termination.

11. Termination, Suspension & Clawback

11.1 Termination by either party. Either party may terminate at will. On
termination, your license (§7.1) ends, your links/codes are deactivated, and you
must stop all promotion and remove Vantage marks.

11.2 Immediate termination for cause. Vantage may suspend or terminate
immediately and without notice for any breach, and especially for a
violation of the FTC disclosure obligations (§3), the RUO / no-claims obligations
(§5), fraud or prohibited conduct (§6), or any conduct that creates legal,
regulatory, or reputational risk to Vantage.

11.3 Forfeiture & clawback. Upon a material breach (including any §3, §5, or
§6 violation) or fraud:
– (a) all unpaid commissions are forfeited; and
– (b) Vantage may claw back / reverse commissions already paid that are
attributable to fraudulent, non-compliant, refunded, or charged-back activity,
and may recover them by offset against future commissions or by direct
repayment.

11.4 Survival of harm. Termination does not relieve you of liability for acts
or content published before termination, including indemnity under §13.

12. Compliance With Law & Platform Rules

12.1 You will comply with all applicable laws and regulations, including the
FTC Act and 16 CFR Part 255; FDA requirements applicable to RUO materials and
prohibited drug/health claims; the CAN-SPAM Act and TCPA; state consumer-
protection, advertising, and tax laws; and data-privacy laws.

12.2 You will comply with the terms of service, advertising policies, and
disclosure tools of every platform you use (e.g., Meta/Instagram/Facebook,
TikTok, YouTube, X, Google, email/SMS providers), including their rules on
health products, restricted goods, and paid-partnership labeling. Platform
approval does not substitute for §3/§5 compliance.

12.3 You will obtain and maintain any licenses, registrations, or consents your
promotional activity requires, at your own expense.

13. Indemnification

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Vantage, Stratum Ventures LLC,
and their owners, members, officers, contractors, and suppliers from and against
any claims, demands, investigations, penalties, losses, damages, liabilities,
and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or related to:
(a) your breach of this Agreement; (b) your disclosure violations under §3;
(c) your claims, statements, or content under §5 (including any medical,
health, dosing, human-use, or approved-drug-comparison claim, and any FDA/FTC
action arising from your content); (d) your prohibited conduct under §6; (e) your
violation of any law or platform rule; or (f) your negligence or willful
misconduct. This obligation survives termination.

14. Disclaimers & Limitation of Liability

14.1 No guarantee. Vantage makes no guarantee of earnings, traffic,
conversion, program continuity, or tracking accuracy. The program and all assets
are provided “as is.”

14.2 Limitation. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Vantage’s total
aggregate liability to you under this Agreement will not exceed the total
commissions actually paid to you in the three (3) months preceding the
event giving rise to the claim. Vantage is not liable for indirect, incidental,
consequential, special, or punitive damages.

15. Confidentiality

Non-public information Vantage shares with you (pricing logic, supplier
relationships, unreleased products, program data) is confidential and may be used
only to perform under this Agreement and not disclosed. This survives termination.

16. General

16.1 Governing law / venue. This Agreement is governed by the laws of the
State of Texas, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Venue lies in the
state or federal courts located in Lubbock County, Texas, and the parties
consent to that jurisdiction.

16.2 Entire agreement / amendment. This Agreement, plus the Ambassador
Compliance Acknowledgment and the site Terms and Privacy Policy, is the entire
agreement and supersedes prior understandings. Vantage may amend prospectively
per §2.3.

16.3 Assignment. You may not assign this Agreement without Vantage’s written
consent. Vantage may assign it freely.

16.4 Severability / waiver. If any provision is unenforceable, the rest
remains in effect. No waiver is implied by Vantage’s failure to enforce a term.

16.5 Notices. Notices to Vantage: [email protected]. Notices to you:
the email on your ambassador account.

Acknowledgment

By enrolling in, accepting credentials for, or posting any tracked link or code
for the Vantage Aminos ambassador program, you acknowledge that you have read,
understood, and agree to this Agreement and the Ambassador Compliance
Acknowledgment, including the FTC disclosure obligations (§3) and the
Research-Use-Only / no-claims obligations (§5).

Ambassador: ____ Date: ______

Sources / authorities relied on

16 CFR Part 255 (FTC) Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and
Testimonials in Advertising (eCFR): https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-255
16 CFR 255.0, Purpose and definitions (“clear and conspicuous”):
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-255/section-255.0
(Cornell LII mirror: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/16/255.0)
FTC, Disclosures 101 for Social Media Influencers:
https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/disclosures-101-social-media-influencers
FTC, The FTC’s Endorsement Guides: What People Are Asking:
https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/ftcs-endorsement-guides-what-people-are-asking