Terms of Service

Last updated: September 30, 2026

The short version

LiftPedia hasn't launched. Everything you see here is a preview, and all product names, prices, and ratings shown are made up.
We are not doctors and nothing here is medical advice. Talk to a healthcare professional before taking any supplement.
Tested athletes: we cannot tell you whether a supplement is safe for competition. Read section 7 before you trust anything here.
We don't sell supplements. We will link you to retailers; your purchase is with them, and returns and warranties are theirs.
Always read the actual product label. Our data can be wrong or out of date.
You must be 13 or older.
If we have a dispute, we ask you to email us first and give us 30 days to fix it. There is no forced arbitration here and you keep your right to go to court.

1. Agreement to these Terms

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a legal agreement between you and LiftPedia governing your use of liftpedia.ca (the "Site"). By accessing or using the Site, joining the waitlist, or sending us a message, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please don't use the Site.

These Terms apply to every visitor. They work alongside our Privacy Policy and Affiliate Disclosure, both of which are part of this agreement.

2. Who you're dealing with

LiftPedia is an independent, unincorporated project, not a registered company, not a corporation, operated by its founders from British Columbia, Canada. You can see who they are on our Who We Are page.

We say this plainly because it matters to you: there is no company standing behind LiftPedia, which means there are real individuals operating it and no corporate balance sheet. If we incorporate, these Terms will be updated to name the entity, and the entity will assume this agreement.

3. Definitions

"Site", liftpedia.ca and everything served from it.
"Content", all text, graphics, logos, layout, design, data, and code on the Site.
"Demo Content", the sample product names, prices, ratings, match scores, and recommendations shown in the matcher, quiz, and app screenshots. All of it is illustrative and fictional.
"User Content", anything you submit to us, including contact messages and, in future, reviews, ratings, and photos.
"you", any person accessing the Site.
"we," "us," "our", LiftPedia and the founders who operate it.

4. Eligibility and age

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Site or join the waitlist. By using it, you confirm that you are. If you are under 18, please review these Terms with a parent or guardian before signing up.

Supplements are not appropriate for everyone, and some are specifically unsuitable for minors. Nothing on this Site should be read as encouraging anyone under 18 to take a supplement without the involvement of a parent, guardian, or healthcare professional.

5. This is a pre-launch preview

LiftPedia has not launched. The Site currently exists to explain what we're building and to collect a waitlist. It offers no live product database, no accounts, and no real recommendations.

All Demo Content is fictional. The product names, brands, prices, ratings, review counts, match scores, and shortlists shown in the matcher, the demo quiz, and the app screenshots are invented for illustration. They are not real products, not real prices, and not real ratings. Do not make a purchasing or health decision based on anything shown on this Site today.

The demo quiz collects nothing. Your answers stay in your browser and are never sent to us, see our Privacy Policy.

6. Health and safety, read this

LiftPedia does not provide medical advice. We are not physicians, dietitians, pharmacists, naturopaths, athletic trainers, or healthcare providers of any kind, and we are not qualified to advise you on your health. Nothing on this Site, not an article, a match score, a ranking, a review, or a recommendation, is medical, nutritional, pharmaceutical, or healthcare advice, and none of it creates a practitioner–patient relationship.

Talk to a qualified healthcare professional before starting, stopping, or changing any supplement. This matters especially if you:

take any prescription or over-the-counter medication, supplement–drug interactions can be serious;
have or suspect any medical condition, including heart, liver, kidney, thyroid, blood-pressure, or mental-health conditions;
are pregnant, trying to become pregnant, or breastfeeding;
have a known or suspected allergy or intolerance;
are under 18, or are preparing for surgery.

Never disregard or delay professional medical advice because of something you read here. If you think you're having a medical emergency or an adverse reaction to a supplement, stop taking it and contact a healthcare professional or emergency services immediately.

We make no claim that any supplement treats, cures, prevents, diagnoses, or mitigates any disease or medical condition. Supplements are not a substitute for medical treatment, a balanced diet, or adequate sleep and training.

Allergen and ingredient information we display comes from manufacturers and retailers and may be incomplete, outdated, or wrong. If you have an allergy, read the physical product label every time. Our dietary and allergen filters are a convenience to narrow your options, they are not a safety system and must never be relied on as one. Formulations change, manufacturing facilities change, and cross-contamination risk is something only the manufacturer can speak to.

7. Drug testing and competition

If you compete in a tested sport, do not rely on this Site for compliance.

LiftPedia makes no representation that any supplement is free of substances banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport, your national anti-doping organization, or your sport's governing body, or that any product is permitted in competition.

Supplement labels are not a guarantee of contents. Products are known to be contaminated with or to undeclare prohibited substances, and in most anti-doping systems strict liability applies, you are responsible for what is in your body regardless of how it got there or whether you intended it.

If you are a tested athlete, consult your anti-doping organization, use a recognized third-party certification or batch-testing program, and treat any information here as a starting point for that process and never as a substitute for it.

8. Regulatory status of products

Supplements shown or described on the Site may or may not be licensed for sale in your country. In Canada, natural health products require a licence from Health Canada and carry an NPN or DIN-HM number; rules differ elsewhere.

Licensing, permitted claims, labelling, manufacturing standards, and product safety are the responsibility of the manufacturer and the retailer, not ours. We do not verify licences, test products, audit facilities, or confirm that a product is legally available where you live. Some ingredients legal in one country are restricted or prohibited in another, and it is your responsibility to know what applies to you.

9. Third-party products and retailers

This is important and often misunderstood, so to be explicit: LiftPedia does not sell, manufacture, stock, ship, test, or handle any supplement. We are an information and comparison service.

If you buy a product after following a link from us, your purchase contract is with that retailer, not with LiftPedia. Their terms and privacy policy govern it.
Payment, shipping, delivery, damage, returns, refunds, exchanges, warranties, and customer service are entirely the retailer's responsibility. We cannot process a return, issue a refund, or chase an order for you.
Product information, ingredients, doses, servings, prices, availability, flavours, allergen statements, is supplied by manufacturers and retailers and may be inaccurate, incomplete, or out of date. Prices and stock change constantly.
Always read the actual product label and the retailer's own listing before buying or consuming anything. Where our information and the physical label disagree, the label wins.
Appearance on LiftPedia is not an endorsement, a safety certification, or a guarantee of quality, efficacy, or legality.

We are not liable for the acts, omissions, products, or content of any retailer or manufacturer, or for any dispute between you and one of them.

10. Affiliate links and monetization

LiftPedia intends to earn commissions when you buy through our links, and may offer an optional paid tier. We do not sell placements, sponsored rankings, or paid reviews, and commission rates are not an input to our rankings.

Our Affiliate Disclosure sets this out in full and forms part of these Terms. As of the date above, no link on this Site earns us anything.

11. Your reviews and contributions

Reviews and LiftRank are not live yet. When they are, this section governs them; today it applies to contact messages and any other User Content you send us.

What you grant us

You keep ownership of your User Content. By submitting it, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to host, store, reproduce, display, adapt for formatting, and distribute it in connection with operating and promoting LiftPedia. This licence lasts as long as your content is on the Site and ends a reasonable time after you delete it, except where we must retain a copy by law or where it has been incorporated into aggregate ratings.

What you promise us

It's yours, or you have the right to submit it, and it infringes nobody's rights.
It's honest and based on your own genuine experience.
You have not been paid, discounted, gifted, or otherwise compensated for it, and if you do have any connection to the brand, you will disclose it clearly.
It contains no one else's personal information and no private health details you shouldn't be sharing.
It makes no medical claim that a product treats, cures, or prevents a disease.
It is not defamatory, harassing, hateful, threatening, obscene, misleading, or unlawful.

What we may do

We may review, moderate, refuse, label, edit for formatting, or remove User Content that breaks these rules, and may suspend accounts that do. We will not remove a review for being negative, honest criticism is the point of the service, and no brand can pay to make it disappear. We are not obligated to monitor User Content, and we don't guarantee we'll keep it or be able to restore it.

LiftPoints and tiers

LiftPoints and LiftRank tiers are a community recognition system with no monetary value. They cannot be bought, sold, transferred, redeemed, or exchanged for anything, they are not property, and they confer no legal rights. We may adjust the point system, and we may remove points or tiers from accounts engaged in fake reviews, vote manipulation, or coordinated rating abuse.

12. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

Use the Site unlawfully or in breach of any applicable law or regulation.
Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Site, its database, its infrastructure, or anyone's account.
Interfere with, overload, or disrupt the Site, or probe or test its security without our written permission.
Scrape, crawl, harvest, or bulk-extract Content by automated means, or use the Site's data to build a competing dataset or service.
Use Content to train, fine-tune, or evaluate any machine-learning or AI model without our written permission.
Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source or logic of the Site beyond what the law permits.
Circumvent or interfere with our bot protection, rate limits, or any security or access control.
Submit fake, duplicated, incentivized, or manipulated reviews or ratings, or operate multiple accounts to influence them.
Submit another person's email address to our waitlist or impersonate anyone.
Transmit spam, malware, or any harmful code.
Remove, obscure, or alter any copyright, trademark, or disclosure notice.

13. Intellectual property

All Content on the Site, including the LiftPedia name and logo, "Buy smarter, Train harder," LiftRank, LiftPoints, the personalization engine and its methodology, the written copy, design, layout, and code, is owned by us or licensed to us and protected by Canadian and international copyright, trademark, and other laws.

You get a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to view and use the Site for your own non-commercial purposes. You may not copy, reproduce, republish, distribute, modify, create derivative works from, frame, or commercially exploit any Content without our written permission. Normal quotation with attribution and a link is fine.

Third-party trademarks, brand names, and product images shown on the Site belong to their respective owners. Their appearance here is for identification and comparison, nominative fair use, and does not imply affiliation with, sponsorship by, or endorsement from those owners, in either direction.

If you believe something on the Site infringes your rights, email [email protected] identifying the work and the material in question, and we will investigate promptly.

14. Feedback

If you send us suggestions, ideas, or feature requests, we may use them freely, without restriction, attribution, or compensation, and without creating any obligation to you or any confidential relationship. If you want to keep an idea, please don't send it to us.

15. Third-party links and services

The Site links to third-party websites and relies on third-party services. We don't control them and aren't responsible for their content, products, security, availability, privacy practices, or terms. Following a link is at your own risk, and once you leave, that site's own terms apply.

16. Availability and changes to the Site

The Site is provided "as is" and "as available." We make no promise of uptime, and we may change, suspend, restrict, or discontinue the Site or any feature, including this preview, the waitlist, the demo quiz, or LiftRank, at any time, with or without notice. We may also change what the launched product looks like; nothing described here is a commitment to build a particular feature.

We do not guarantee that the Site will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, or that defects will be corrected.

17. Disclaimer of warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Site and all Content are provided without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise. We specifically disclaim the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement, and we make no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness, currency, reliability, or usefulness of any Content, product information, match score, ranking, rating, or review.

No advice or information, oral or written, obtained from us or through the Site creates any warranty not expressly stated here.

Your statutory rights survive this section. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or of certain liability, including, in British Columbia, rights under the Business Practices and Consumer Protection Act, and similar consumer protection legislation elsewhere in Canada, the European Union, the United Kingdom, and other places. Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes any right or remedy you have that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded, and to the extent a provision here conflicts with such a right, that right prevails and the provision applies only as far as the law allows.

18. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, and subject to the carve-outs below:

LiftPedia and its founders, operators, contractors, and representatives are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or anticipated savings, arising out of or relating to the Site or these Terms, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), or otherwise, and whether or not we were advised such damages were possible.
Our total aggregate liability for all claims relating to the Site or these Terms is limited to the greater of (a) CAD $100, or (b) the total amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose. Since LiftPedia is currently free, that will usually be CAD $100.

These limits do not apply to, and we do not attempt to exclude:

death or personal injury caused by our negligence;
fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
our own wilful misconduct or gross negligence;
any liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded, including under applicable consumer protection law.

You accept that these limits are a reasonable allocation of risk for a free, pre-launch information service, and that we would not be able to offer the Site without them. They apply even if a remedy is found to have failed its essential purpose.

Nothing in this section limits the retailer's or manufacturer's own liability to you for a product you buy from them. Your rights against them are unaffected by these Terms.

19. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless LiftPedia and its founders and representatives from third-party claims, damages, losses, liabilities, and reasonable legal costs arising from:

your breach of these Terms or of any applicable law;
your User Content, including any claim that it infringes someone's rights or is defamatory;
your unlawful or unauthorized use of the Site.

This does not extend to anything arising from our own breach, negligence, or misconduct. We will tell you promptly of any claim, and you may control the defence provided you keep us reasonably informed and do not settle in a way that imposes an obligation or admission on us without our consent.

20. Termination

You can stop using the Site at any time, and can leave the waitlist whenever you like, see our Privacy Policy for how.

We may suspend or terminate your access, with or without notice, if you breach these Terms, if we reasonably suspect fraud, abuse, or review manipulation, or if we're required to by law. Sections that should sensibly outlast the agreement, intellectual property, warranties, liability, indemnity, disputes, and these general terms, survive termination.

21. Disputes and governing law

Talk to us first

If you have a problem with us, please email [email protected] with a description of the issue and what you'd like us to do. We agree to engage in good faith, and we ask you to give us 30 days to resolve it before starting formal proceedings. Most things are fixable by someone just reading the complaint.

No forced arbitration, no waiver of your rights

These Terms contain no mandatory arbitration clause and no class-action waiver. We have deliberately left them out. You keep your right to bring a claim in court, including in small claims court, and to participate in a class proceeding where one is available to you. The 30-day step above is a request to talk, not a condition that strips you of a remedy.

Governing law and venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Province of British Columbia and the federal laws of Canada applicable there, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. The courts of British Columbia have non-exclusive jurisdiction over disputes arising from these Terms.

If you are a consumer resident elsewhere in Canada, in the European Union, in the United Kingdom, or in another place whose law gives you the right to bring proceedings locally or to the protection of your own jurisdiction's mandatory consumer rules, this section does not take that away from you. In particular, consumers resident in Quebec retain every right available under the Consumer Protection Act, including the right to bring proceedings in Quebec.

22. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms as LiftPedia develops. The "last updated" date at the top always reflects the current version, and we'll keep the substance readable rather than burying changes.

For material changes, anything that meaningfully reduces your rights or adds obligations, we will give reasonable advance notice, by email to the waitlist and by a notice on the Site, before they take effect. Continued use after a change takes effect means you accept it; if you don't, stop using the Site and unsubscribe, and the change won't apply to you retroactively.

23. General terms

Severability. If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, it is limited or severed to the minimum extent necessary and the rest stays in force.
No waiver. If we don't enforce a provision, we haven't waived it.
Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our consent. We may assign them in connection with incorporating LiftPedia, a merger, or a sale of the project, provided your rights are not reduced, and where privacy law requires notice of such a transfer, you'll get it.
Force majeure. Neither party is liable for failure to perform due to causes beyond its reasonable control, including outages at our hosting or email providers, natural events, or government action.
No agency. These Terms create no partnership, employment, agency, or joint venture between us.
Entire agreement. These Terms, with the Privacy Policy and Affiliate Disclosure, are the entire agreement between us about the Site and supersede earlier understandings, except that nothing here excludes liability for fraudulent misrepresentation.
Headings are for convenience and don't affect interpretation. "Including" means "including without limitation."

24. Language

These Terms are currently published in English only. We intend to provide a French version for Quebec residents, and will publish one as LiftPedia approaches launch. If you are a Quebec resident and would prefer to receive these Terms or our Privacy Policy in French, email [email protected] and we will provide a translation. Where a French version exists and a conflict of meaning arises, the French version prevails for Quebec consumers.

25. Contact

Questions about these Terms, or anything legal:

LiftPedia
[email protected]
liftpedia.ca

For general questions about the product, write to [email protected].