Terms of use

Agreeing to these terms

These terms are an agreement between you and SharpAndLean, which publishes this site independently. They took effect on 2 October 2026 and apply whenever you read a page, follow a link, subscribe to the newsletter, submit a community review or sign in. If you do not accept them, please stop using the site.

The site is written for adults. It is not directed to children under 13, and anyone under 18 should read it with a parent or guardian. You must be 18 or over to subscribe to the newsletter, submit a community review or create an account, and by doing any of those you confirm that you are. How we handle information that reaches us from a child is set out in the privacy policy.

What SharpAndLean is

SharpAndLean publishes editorial and educational material about dietary supplements: what a label discloses, what the research supports, and where the evidence runs out. It is a publication, not a shop. Nothing is sold here, no payment is taken here, and no product is manufactured, stocked, dispensed or shipped by us.

Use the site lawfully. Do not interfere with its security or availability, and do not use it in a way that degrades it for other readers.

Where this site is offered

SharpAndLean is operated from the United States and written for readers in the United States. No claim is made that its content is appropriate, lawful or available anywhere else. Supplement regulation differs substantially between countries, and a product discussed here may be restricted, differently formulated or unavailable where you live. If you use the site from outside the United States you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with your own local law.

This is not medical advice

The site does not provide personal medical advice, does not diagnose or treat anything, and does not create a clinician–patient relationship — including with Sumita Bhatti, whose editorial role is described in the medical disclaimer. That page forms part of these terms. Decisions about medicines and supplements remain yours to make with a professional who can actually examine you.

Accuracy, currency and availability

Reviews are researched carefully and cited, and material errors are corrected when they are found. Even so, research advances, labels get reformulated, brands change owners, and prices, stock and seller terms move without notice. A review reflects the evidence and product information available on the review date shown on the page, and nothing more.

The site is provided without any promise that it is complete, current, uninterrupted, error-free or suitable for your particular circumstances. Pages may be edited, unpublished or removed at any time, and no guarantee is made that any page will remain available at a given address.

If you believe something here is factually wrong, tell us through the contact page with the page address and a source. Factual corrections are checked and made. A disagreement with an editorial judgement is considered on its merits, but it is not automatically an error.

Links, sellers and purchases

Some outbound links are affiliate links that may earn a commission, as set out in full in the affiliate disclosure. Whether a link earns anything or not, the destination is somebody else’s site.

Any purchase you make happens on a third party’s site, under that party’s terms, prices and privacy practices. SharpAndLean is not the seller, manufacturer, importer, payment processor or fulfilment provider, is not a party to your transaction, and has no ability to take payment, cancel an order, process a return or honour a guarantee. Problems with an order, a refund, a delivery or a product go to the seller. We do not endorse, and are not responsible for, the content or practices of any linked site.

Community contributions

If you submit a community review, you confirm that it is your own genuine experience of the product, that you are not being paid, incentivised or instructed by anyone to post it, and that you have the right to share what you are submitting. Reviews written by people with an undisclosed stake in a product — sellers, employees, agencies or their relatives — are prohibited, as is any attempt to post fake or misleading reviews.

Do not submit private health information, anyone else’s personal details, unlawful material, harassment, impersonation, undisclosed advertising, malware, or claims you know to be false.

Every submission arrives unapproved and stays hidden until it has been moderated. Submissions may be edited for length or formatting, declined, or removed later, without an obligation to explain why. Moderation is a check for abuse and obvious fakery — it is not verification that an account is accurate, and a published review is the contributor’s claim, not ours.

By submitting material for publication you grant SharpAndLean a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, display, format, excerpt and moderate it on the site. You keep ownership of what you wrote. Ask through the contact page if you want your contribution taken down.

Acceptable use

Do not attempt to gain access to areas of the site, accounts or data you are not authorised to reach, or to probe, scan or test its defences. Do not submit automated traffic to the forms, evade the rate limits, or use scripted tools to bulk-copy the site. Do not introduce malicious code, misrepresent your identity or the origin of your traffic, or use the site to send unsolicited commercial messages.

Quoting a short passage with a link and attribution is welcome. Republishing reviews at scale, copying the site’s structure and content into a competing publication, or passing our work off as your own is not, and neither is using the content to train a commercial model without permission.

Editorial accounts

Sign-in exists for the editorial team. Editorial permission is granted by an allowlist that ordinary accounts cannot edit, so creating an account does not give anyone the ability to publish. If you hold editorial access, keep your credentials secure, do not share them, and report a suspected compromise immediately. Access may be suspended or withdrawn at any time to protect the site, investigate misuse or comply with the law.

Intellectual property

Unless stated otherwise, the design, original text, review methodology, artwork and arrangement of this site belong to SharpAndLean or its licensors, and are protected by copyright and other laws. The hero artwork is original work commissioned for this site.

Product names, brand names and network names — including Amazon, ClickBank, Awin and Gurumedia — are the trademarks of their respective owners. They are used here to identify products and programmes factually. Their use does not imply any endorsement, sponsorship or affiliation beyond the commercial arrangements described in the affiliate disclosure.

Copyright complaints

We respond to notices of claimed copyright infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The copyright and DMCA policy names our copyright agent and sets out what a notice must contain, how a contributor can send a counter-notice, and how repeat infringers are treated. That policy forms part of these terms. Sending a notice you know to be false can make you liable for damages under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).

No warranties

The site and everything on it are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement, and any warranty that the site will be uninterrupted, secure, free of errors or free of harmful components. No advice or information you obtain here creates any warranty that is not stated in these terms.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, SharpAndLean and the people who work on it are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, data, goodwill or health outcomes, arising from your use of the site or your reliance on anything published here — including any decision to take, avoid, continue or stop a supplement, and anything that happens in connection with a product you bought from a third party.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of certain damages, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, or fraudulent misrepresentation. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, and where an exclusion above is not permitted where you live, it does not apply to you.

Indemnity

If your breach of these terms, your misuse of the site, or material you submit causes a third-party claim against us, you agree to be responsible for the reasonable costs and damages that result, to the extent the law allows. We may take over the defence of any such claim, and you agree not to settle it in a way that binds us without our written agreement.

Ending access

You may stop using the site at any time, unsubscribe from the newsletter using the link in any issue, and ask for your contributions to be removed. We may suspend or end access to the site or to an account where these terms are breached, where the security of the site requires it, or where the law demands it. The sections on contributions, intellectual property, warranties, liability, indemnity and governing law survive the end of your use.

Governing law and disputes

These terms, and any dispute arising from them or from your use of the site, are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict-of-law rules that would apply the law of another jurisdiction. For any matter not resolved as described below, you and SharpAndLean agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in California.

Talk to us first. Before starting a formal claim, write through the contact page and allow 30 days for a reply. Most disputes about a factual error, a link or a contribution are settled faster that way than through a court.

If a dispute is not resolved informally, either party may elect to resolve it by binding arbitration before a single arbitrator under the rules of an established arbitration provider, seated in California or conducted remotely. Either party may still bring a qualifying individual claim in small-claims court, and either may ask a court for injunctive relief to protect intellectual property. This does not require you to give up the right to bring a claim as part of a group.

Time limit. Any claim relating to the site must be brought within one year after the events giving rise to it, or it is permanently barred, except where a longer period is required by law.

Nothing here removes a right you have under the consumer protection law of the state where you live, or prevents you from bringing a matter before a regulator.

Changes to these terms

These terms may be updated as the site changes or the law does. When they are, the effective date at the top changes with them, and a change that materially affects your rights will be described rather than slipped in quietly. Continuing to use the site after the new date means the updated terms apply to you.

The rest

If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, that part is limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary and the remainder stays in force. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. These terms, together with the privacy policy, the affiliate disclosure and the medical disclaimer, are the entire agreement between you and SharpAndLean about the site, and replace any earlier version. You may not transfer your rights under them; we may transfer ours if the site changes hands, on notice.

Questions about these terms go through the contact page.