Last Updated: September 12, 2026
These DRS Ambassador & Affiliate Program Terms (“Terms”) govern participation in the Direct Research Supply Ambassador and Affiliate Program (“Program”). By applying to, participating in, or continuing to participate in the Program, you agree to these Terms.
In these Terms, “DRS,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Direct Research Supply. “Participant,” “you,” and “your” refer to any person participating as a DRS Ambassador or DRS Affiliate.
1. Program Overview
The DRS Ambassador & Affiliate Program has two participation levels:
Level 1: DRS Ambassador
- You receive an individual DRS promotional coupon code.
- Your coupon provides customers with 5% off eligible products.
- You do not earn commission while participating as a DRS Ambassador.
- You may use your own coupon code for eligible personal purchases.
- Your own purchases do not count toward Affiliate qualification.
- After 10 qualifying orders from other customers using your assigned coupon code, you become eligible for review for DRS Affiliate status.
Level 2: DRS Affiliate
- Your customers continue to receive 5% off eligible products through your assigned coupon code.
- You earn a 5% commission on eligible referred merchandise, subject to the commission rules described below.
- Commission is capped at $15 per eligible product unit.
- You may continue using your own coupon code, but you do not earn commission on your own purchases.
Reaching 10 qualifying orders does not automatically result in promotion to DRS Affiliate status. DRS reviews qualifying Ambassadors before approving Affiliate status.
2. Eligibility
You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of legal majority where you reside, to participate in the Program.
DRS may approve or reject any Program application at its discretion. Participation in the Program is a privilege and does not create any right to continued participation.
You are responsible for providing accurate information during registration and keeping your account information current.
3. Ambassador Coupon Codes
Approved Participants may receive a unique coupon code associated with their DRS account. Unless otherwise stated, the coupon provides a 5% discount on eligible products.
You may share your coupon code publicly. This includes, without limitation:
- Social media
- Websites and blogs
- Online communities and forums
- Private groups
- Email or messaging
- Coupon and promotional websites
- Other lawful promotional channels
DRS does not require that every coupon use originate through a traditional affiliate referral. If your code generates legitimate sales, those sales may qualify under the Program subject to these Terms.
Coupon codes remain the property of DRS and may be modified, suspended, replaced, or disabled when reasonably necessary for Program administration, fraud prevention, technical issues, or violations of these Terms.
4. Qualifying Orders for Ambassador Advancement
A DRS Ambassador becomes eligible for Affiliate review after 10 qualifying orders.
A qualifying order must:
- Use the Ambassador’s assigned DRS coupon code;
- Be placed by someone other than the Ambassador;
- Be successfully paid and completed;
- Not be canceled, refunded, reversed, charged back, fraudulent, or otherwise invalidated; and
- Comply with these Terms and DRS policies.
Repeat purchases from the same legitimate customer may each count as separate qualifying orders.
An Ambassador may use their own coupon code and receive the applicable customer discount, but their own orders do not count toward the 10 qualifying orders.
DRS may review orders before approving advancement and may disregard orders that appear fraudulent, manipulated, artificially generated, or otherwise inconsistent with the purpose of the Program.
5. Affiliate Commission
Only Participants who have been approved as DRS Affiliates earn commission.
The standard Affiliate commission is 5% of eligible merchandise revenue after applicable sale pricing and the customer’s DRS Affiliate coupon discount, subject to a maximum commission of $15 per product unit.
For each eligible product unit, commission is calculated as the lesser of:
- 5% of the eligible net merchandise price for that unit; or
- $15.
For example, if multiple eligible units are purchased in the same order, the $15 maximum applies separately to each eligible unit.
6. Items Not Included in Commission Calculations
Commission is not calculated on:
- Shipping charges;
- Sales tax or other taxes;
- Excluded products;
- Refunded or canceled merchandise;
- Chargebacks or reversed payments;
- Fraudulent or invalid transactions; or
- The Affiliate’s own purchases.
Bacteriostatic water, acetic acid solution, and any other products designated by DRS as excluded products do not qualify for Program discounts or commission unless DRS specifically states otherwise.
7. Crypto and Other Payment-Method Discounts
A separate discount provided because a customer selects a particular payment method, including an eligible cryptocurrency payment discount, does not reduce the Affiliate’s commission base unless DRS specifically states otherwise.
Affiliate commission is therefore generally calculated after the applicable product pricing and Affiliate coupon discount, but before a separate qualifying payment-method discount.
Payment-method discounts may be used together with an Affiliate coupon when permitted by the DRS checkout system.
8. Self-Purchases
Participants are permitted to use their own coupon codes for eligible purchases.
For DRS Ambassadors, a self-purchase does not count toward the 10 qualifying orders required for Affiliate review.
For DRS Affiliates, a self-purchase does not generate commission.
DRS may use account information, billing information, email addresses, customer information, payment information, or other reasonable indicators to determine whether an order is a Participant’s own purchase.
9. Refunds, Cancellations, Chargebacks, and Adjustments
Commission is earned only on valid qualifying sales. If an order is later refunded, canceled, charged back, reversed, determined to be fraudulent, or otherwise invalidated, any related commission may be canceled or reversed.
If commission relating to an invalidated transaction has already been credited or paid, DRS may deduct the applicable amount from future commission balances or otherwise correct the account balance.
Partial refunds may result in a proportional adjustment to commission.
10. Commission Approval and Payment
Commission shown in an Affiliate dashboard may be pending, unpaid, under review, or otherwise subject to verification before payment.
DRS may maintain a reasonable review period before commission becomes payable in order to account for refunds, payment reversals, fraud reviews, chargebacks, and other order adjustments.
DRS may establish reasonable payout schedules, minimum payout balances, available payout methods, and verification requirements. Current payout procedures will be displayed in the Affiliate dashboard, communicated directly to Affiliates, or otherwise made available by DRS.
Participants are responsible for maintaining accurate payment information.
11. Taxes
Participants are responsible for determining and satisfying any tax obligations associated with payments received through the Program.
DRS may request tax documentation or other information when required by applicable law or reasonably necessary to process payments.
Participation in the Program does not create an employer-employee relationship between DRS and the Participant.
12. Research Use Only Promotional Requirements
DRS products identified as Research Use Only (“RUO”) must be promoted consistently with their stated research-use designation.
Participants must not:
- Market or represent RUO products as intended for human use;
- Market or represent RUO products as intended for veterinary use;
- Provide dosing instructions on behalf of DRS;
- Provide administration or usage protocols on behalf of DRS;
- Claim that a DRS product diagnoses, treats, cures, mitigates, or prevents a disease or medical condition;
- Make therapeutic or medical claims that DRS itself does not make;
- Represent a DRS research product as an approved drug, medicine, supplement, or treatment unless DRS expressly and lawfully states otherwise;
- Misrepresent the regulatory status of any DRS product; or
- Encourage unlawful or prohibited use of a DRS product.
Participants may discuss legitimate published research or research topics, but must not misrepresent research findings or imply that research establishes an approved human or veterinary use for a DRS RUO product.
13. Truthful Advertising
All statements made while promoting DRS must be truthful, accurate, and not misleading.
Participants must not:
- Make false or unsupported claims about DRS or its products;
- Falsely claim that DRS guarantees particular research outcomes;
- Alter or misrepresent certificates of analysis, testing information, product documentation, or laboratory results;
- Claim that a specific product or batch has testing or documentation that DRS has not provided for that product or batch;
- Use fabricated reviews, fabricated testimonials, or deceptive advertising;
- Misrepresent prices, discounts, availability, shipping times, or promotions;
- Use deceptive redirects, forced clicks, malware, adware, or other abusive promotional methods; or
- Engage in spam or unlawful unsolicited communications.
14. Affiliate and Ambassador Disclosures
Participants must comply with applicable advertising, endorsement, influencer, and consumer-protection laws and regulations.
Whenever your relationship with DRS could affect how a reasonable person evaluates an endorsement, recommendation, review, or promotional message, you must clearly and conspicuously disclose that relationship.
For example, a DRS Affiliate may use language such as:
“I earn a commission from purchases made using my DRS code.”
A disclosure should be easy to notice, easy to understand, and placed close to the relevant recommendation or promotion.
Participants remain responsible for complying with disclosure requirements applicable to the platforms and jurisdictions in which they promote DRS.
15. Coupon and Deal Websites
DRS permits Participants to share their assigned coupon codes through legitimate coupon, deal, promotional, or discount websites.
The fact that a customer discovered a Participant’s code through a coupon website does not by itself disqualify an otherwise valid order.
However, Participants may not falsely claim to operate an official DRS website, create pages designed to impersonate DRS, or use deceptive advertising practices to obtain coupon attribution.
16. DRS Brand and Intellectual Property
Participation in the Program does not transfer ownership of the Direct Research Supply name, DRS name, logos, trademarks, graphics, product images, website content, or other intellectual property.
DRS may permit Participants to use approved brand assets solely for purposes of participating in the Program.
Participants must not:
- Represent themselves as employees, owners, agents, or official representatives of DRS;
- Create websites, social accounts, usernames, domains, or branding likely to mislead someone into believing they are operated by DRS;
- Modify DRS trademarks or logos in a misleading manner;
- Use DRS intellectual property for unlawful or unauthorized purposes; or
- Suggest that DRS endorses statements, products, services, or organizations that DRS has not approved.
17. Independent Participants
Participants act as independent contractors and not as employees, agents, partners, joint venturers, franchisees, or legal representatives of DRS.
Participants have no authority to enter contracts, make commitments, provide warranties, incur obligations, or make representations on behalf of DRS.
18. Fraud and Program Abuse
DRS may investigate suspected Program abuse.
Prohibited conduct includes, without limitation:
- Fake or fabricated orders;
- Unauthorized payment activity;
- Chargeback manipulation;
- Creating transactions solely to generate qualification credit or commission;
- Creating or controlling customer accounts for the purpose of disguising self-purchases;
- Attempting to manipulate tracking or attribution systems;
- Using stolen payment information;
- Automated or bot-generated transactions;
- Abuse of discount codes; or
- Any other conduct DRS reasonably determines is fraudulent or intentionally manipulative.
DRS may withhold commission associated with transactions under reasonable fraud review until the review is completed.
19. Suspension and Termination
Either the Participant or DRS may end Program participation.
DRS may suspend or terminate a Participant for violation of these Terms, suspected fraud, deceptive advertising, prohibited product claims, abuse of the Program, unlawful conduct, conduct that materially harms DRS, or other substantial violations of DRS policies.
Upon termination, the Participant must stop representing themselves as a DRS Ambassador or Affiliate and must discontinue unauthorized use of DRS promotional materials and branding.
Valid commission earned before termination may remain payable following review, except where the commission resulted from fraud, prohibited conduct, invalid transactions, or other violations of these Terms.
20. Program Changes
DRS may modify the Program from time to time, including commission rates, commission caps, discount amounts, qualification requirements, eligible products, excluded products, payout procedures, promotional rules, or other Program features.
Material changes will apply prospectively unless a retroactive adjustment is reasonably necessary to correct fraud, an accounting error, a refund, a chargeback, or another invalid transaction.
Updated Terms may be posted on the DRS website or communicated to Participants through email, the Affiliate dashboard, or another reasonable method.
Continued participation after updated Terms become effective constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.
21. Program Availability
DRS does not guarantee that the Program, any particular discount, commission rate, tracking feature, coupon code, promotional tool, or other Program feature will remain available indefinitely.
DRS may pause, modify, or discontinue the Program upon reasonable notice when practical.
22. Tracking and Technical Issues
DRS uses website, coupon, order, and affiliate-tracking systems to administer the Program. No tracking system is guaranteed to be error-free.
If a Participant believes a qualifying transaction was recorded incorrectly, the Participant should contact DRS with sufficient information to investigate the transaction.
DRS may correct genuine tracking, calculation, or accounting errors when supported by the available transaction records.
23. Confidential Information
Participants must not disclose non-public information received from DRS that is clearly confidential or that a reasonable person would understand to be confidential.
This may include non-public pricing information, security information, customer information, internal business information, supplier information, or unreleased promotional plans.
24. Customer Information and Privacy
Participation in the Program does not give Participants ownership of or unrestricted access to DRS customer information.
Participants must not attempt to obtain, collect, misuse, sell, disclose, or exploit customer personal information obtained through DRS or the Program.
Use of the DRS website and Program is also subject to the DRS Privacy Policy.
25. No Guaranteed Earnings
DRS makes no guarantee regarding the amount of traffic, sales, referrals, commission, income, or other financial benefit that any Participant will generate through the Program.
Results vary based on many factors, and participation may result in no commission or financial benefit.
26. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, DRS will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages arising from participation in the Program, including loss of anticipated revenue, lost promotional opportunities, lost data, or interruption of Program access.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot legally be excluded or limited.
27. Indemnification
To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to be responsible for claims, losses, liabilities, damages, or reasonable expenses arising from your violation of these Terms, unlawful promotional activities, deceptive advertising, unauthorized claims, infringement of third-party rights, or misuse of DRS intellectual property.
28. Severability
If any provision of these Terms is determined to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in effect to the fullest extent permitted by law.
29. No Waiver
DRS’s failure to enforce a provision of these Terms on one occasion does not waive its right to enforce that provision or another provision in the future.
30. Entire Program Agreement
These Terms, together with any Program-specific policies, payout instructions, Privacy Policy, and other applicable DRS website terms, constitute the agreement governing participation in the DRS Ambassador & Affiliate Program.
31. Contact
Questions regarding the DRS Ambassador & Affiliate Program may be directed to:
Direct Research Supply
Email: hello@directresearchsupply.com
By submitting an application to the DRS Ambassador & Affiliate Program, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to these Terms.
