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These are the current operating policies of an early-stage company, written in plain language by the people who run it. They have not been reviewed by external counsel, and they are not a substitute for an agreement negotiated with your institution. If your purchasing office, technology transfer office, or legal team needs different terms, a master agreement, a data processing addendum, or a signed non-disclosure agreement, ask us before you order. We would rather negotiate than discover a mismatch after a shipment has left.

Wetware World is a sourcing intermediary for engineered living components. We do not manufacture. In phase one we broker: you send a specification, we circulate it to laboratories capable of meeting it, and we return comparable quotations. Nothing on this site carries the label Made by Wetware World.

Three terms run through every document below. The supplier's specification governs what the goods are. Everything is supplied for laboratory research only. Biosafety level, institutional approval and import permit remain your responsibility.

Documents

Terms of service WW-TOS-1.0
Who contracts with whom, when a quotation becomes binding, whose specification governs the goods, and where title and risk pass.
Privacy policy WW-PRIV-1.0
What the quote form collects, where it is stored, how long we keep it, and how to exercise rights under the GDPR and the CCPA.
Research use only WW-RUO-1.0
The governing use restriction on everything we broker, and the approvals and biosafety decisions that remain yours.
No medical, clinical or diagnostic use WW-NMU-1.0
The prohibition on human, clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic use, written as numbered clauses so it can be cited in a contract.
Confidentiality and your specification WW-CONF-1.0
What happens to a specification you send us, who sees it, whether suppliers learn your identity, and how long we keep it.
Export control, import permits and biosecurity WW-EXP-1.0
Permits that live and frozen material crosses borders under, what we screen, and what we will not ship.
Shipping, cold chain and handling WW-SHIP-1.0
Dry ice, dry shippers, live-culture courier windows, temperature logging, inspection on arrival, and what happens when a delivery fails.

Questions and documents

Questions and the documents that answer them
If you are asking	Read
Who you are buying from, and who is liable if a batch fails	Terms of service
Whether a quoted number is binding	Terms of service, clause 4
Use in a person, a patient sample workflow, or a clinical assay	No medical, clinical or diagnostic use
Institutional approvals required before delivery	Research use only
What suppliers see of your name, institution and project	Confidentiality and your specification
Handling of data in a quote request	Privacy policy
Cross-border transfer into your country	Export control, import permits and biosecurity
Late courier, or material arriving warm	Shipping, cold chain and handling

Documents not published

As of 2026-09-01 we do not publish, and do not claim, any of the following.

A quality management system certification. We hold no ISO 9001 or ISO 13485 certification. Where the work requires one, we select a supplier that holds it and name the certification on the quotation line.
A GMP, GLP or ISO 17025 accreditation of our own. We can route work to accredited laboratories; we are not one.
A standard master supply agreement or master services agreement. If your institution requires one, we will work from your template.
A published modern slavery statement or accessibility conformance report. Both are on the list; neither is written.
A named data protection officer. We are not at a scale that requires one.

Contact

General enquiries: [email protected]. For anything attached to a live quotation, use [email protected] and quote the reference. We do not publish a telephone number or a street address.

legal index · effective 2026-09-01 · 7 documents · research use only