Terms

CRITICAL

DATED 2025-07-29 · VERSION 20260811_rev01 · FIRST CAPTURED VERSION

What changed, in plain language

This is the first complete capture of Daily Mail's website Terms — the earlier snapshot was empty, so everything appears as "added" even though the page itself says it was last updated on 29 July 2025. Nothing here is necessarily brand new; treat it as a baseline of what you agree to. The most important points: anything you post (comments, photos, video) is licensed to Daily Mail forever, they can never be forced to take it back, and they can pass it to sister brands like Metro and The i paper. You also give up your right to be credited. Daily Mail can change the terms whenever it likes and simply carrying on using the site counts as your agreement. They can delete your posts or close your account at their own discretion, and they take on very little legal responsibility for the site or its content.

Changes that may affect you

Permanent, irreversible licence over everything you post — including for sister brandsCRITICAL

CONTENT LICENSE

Anything you submit can be used, edited, translated and republished by Daily Mail forever, worldwide, for free. "Irrevocable" means you can never take that permission back, even if you delete your account. They can also hand the rights to other companies in their group such as This is Money, Metro and The i paper, and use your words in their adverts. Practically, once you hit post, you lose control of it for good.

“The licence is capable of sub-license by us to other entities and brands in our group of companies (including, without limitation, This is Money, Metro, The i paper)”

What you can do — Do not post anything in the comments you would ever want pulled back, credited to you, or kept out of an advert. Deleting your account will not undo the licence.

You give up your right to be named as the authorSERIOUS

CONTENT LICENSE

Waiving your "moral rights" means you cannot demand credit for what you wrote, and you cannot object if it is edited in a way that distorts your meaning or embarrasses you.

“To the extent permitted by law, you waive your moral rights (e.g. the right to be identified as author or to object to derogatory treatment) in Your Content.”

Terms can change with no notice and silence counts as agreementSERIOUS

UNILATERAL CHANGES

Daily Mail can rewrite these terms whenever they want. They will not tell you — the new version just goes up on the site, and if you keep visiting you are treated as having agreed. The burden is entirely on you to keep checking.

“From time to time, we may update our Terms. The revised Terms will be available on our Site. Please check back regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes we may make.”

What you can do — Check the "Updated" date at the top of the terms page occasionally if you have a registered account.

Your account can be closed at any time, for any reason, with no appealSERIOUS

TERMINATION

They can suspend or delete your registration purely because they choose to — a breach is only given as an example, not a requirement. There is no complaints or appeals route described, and you are barred from signing up again without their permission.

“We may suspend, terminate or prevent your registration at our sole discretion.”

Your posts stay published after you leave, but may also vanish without warningMATERIAL

DATA RETENTION

This cuts both ways against you. Asking them to remove your comments, or closing your account, does not oblige them to take your content down — your name, town and country can stay online. At the same time they promise nothing about keeping your content and may delete it permanently without keeping a copy.

“We make no guarantee that your content will be kept on the Site for any length of time, and we reserve the right to remove your content as we see fit.”

What you can do — Keep your own copies of anything you post that matters to you — the terms explicitly tell you to.

They accept almost no responsibility for the site or what is on itMATERIAL

LIABILITY LIMITS

No warranties are given about the site at all. They are not liable if you act on something you read there and lose out, not liable for your dealings with advertisers or other users, and not liable for third-party content or linked sites. Legally required protections — death or injury from their negligence, and fraud — still stand.

“We give no warranties of any kind in relation to the Site or its contents.”

You agree to cover their legal bills if you misuse embedded contentMATERIAL

LIABILITY LIMITS

If you put a Daily Mail embed on your own website or profile and break their embedding rules, you promise to pay their damages, costs, legal fees and litigation expenses. That is an open-ended financial commitment with no cap.

“You agree to reimburse Us in respect of all damages, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees and litigation expenses, arising out of or as a result of any breach of these Embedding Terms”

What you can do — Only embed Daily Mail content on a personal, non-commercial page, and never in a way that earns you advertising money.

Wide-ranging restrictions on what you can do with the siteMINOR

USER OBLIGATIONS

You cannot scrape or bulk-copy the site, cannot build a database from it, and cannot use its content to train AI or for text and data mining. You also cannot post links to other websites in comments, cannot share an account, and are held responsible for everything done under your login.

“to use any content, files or data from the Site to make or populate a database or publication of any kind whatsoever, to develop or train any software program (including any machine learning or artificial intelligence systems)”

UK-only focus and English lawMINOR

JURISDICTION

The terms are governed by English law and the site says it is intended for UK visitors only. For UK readers this is normal and fair — Scottish and Northern Irish users can even use their home courts. If you are outside the UK, you are responsible for your own local laws and would likely be dealing with English courts.

“These Terms are governed by English law, and you can bring legal proceedings in respect of these Terms in the English courts.”

Changelog

+ ADDEDFull terms captured for the first time
The previous snapshot of this page was empty, so the whole document shows up as new. The page states it was last updated on 29 July 2025, so these are most likely long-standing terms rather than fresh changes.
Published: 23:50 EDT, 6 June 2011 | Updated: 11:09 EDT, 29 July 2025
+ ADDEDForever licence over anything you post
When you submit a comment or other material, you keep your copyright but hand Daily Mail a free, permanent licence to use, edit, translate, adapt and republish it anywhere, in any format that exists now or is invented later. They can also pass that right on to other brands in their group.
you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive worldwide licence to use, copy, edit, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, make available, communicate and distribute Your Content
+ ADDEDYou give up the right to be credited as the author
You waive your "moral rights", meaning you cannot insist on being named as the author and cannot object if your words are edited in a way you dislike.
you waive your moral rights (e.g. the right to be identified as author or to object to derogatory treatment) in Your Content
+ ADDEDYour posts can stay up even after you leave
Deleting your account or changing your mind does not mean your comments come down. Daily Mail can keep publishing them, along with your name, town and country.
Continue to publish all or part of Your Content, including your name, town and country, even if you change your mind and want us to remove it and/or you are no longer registered with the Site;
+ ADDEDYour content can also be used in their advertising
They can put your comments into promotional material, for example a screenshot of your post in an advert.
Use all or part of Your Content in promoting our products and services (e.g. we may use a screenshot including your comments in our advertising);
+ ADDEDTerms can change at any time, and using the site means you accept
There is no advance notice or email. The new terms just appear on the site, and continuing to browse counts as agreeing to them.
If you continue to use our Site after we make any changes, you will be deemed to have accepted any changes to our Terms
+ ADDEDAccounts can be suspended or closed at their discretion
They can suspend, end or block your registration whenever they decide to, and there is no appeals process described. You also must not sign up again afterwards.
We may suspend, terminate or prevent your registration at our sole discretion.
+ ADDEDYour posts can be deleted permanently with no backup
There is no promise your content stays online, and they may not keep a copy. You are told to keep your own backups.
your content may be removed permanently from the Site at any time, and we may not keep copies of your content
+ ADDEDBroad limits on what they are responsible for
They give no warranties about the site, and say they are not liable for acting on information you read there, for dealings with advertisers or other users, or for third-party content and links.
We give no warranties of any kind in relation to the Site or its contents.
+ ADDEDYou must pay their costs if you misuse embedded content
If you embed Daily Mail content on your own site and break the rules, you agree to cover their damages, legal fees and litigation costs.
You agree to reimburse Us in respect of all damages, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees and litigation expenses
+ ADDEDStrict ban on scraping, copying and AI training
You may not scrape the site, build a database from it, or use its content to train software or AI systems. Personal printing of the odd page is allowed.
to develop or train any software program (including any machine learning or artificial intelligence systems), or for the purpose of text/ data mining or analysis
+ ADDEDRules for registering and posting
You must be 16 or over, may only have one account, must keep your password private, and are responsible for everything done through your account. Posts must not be defamatory, obscene, harassing, or contain links to other websites.
You must be 16 years old or older to register and submit material (e.g. comments) to the Site.
+ ADDEDGood news: courts, not arbitration, and a local option
Disputes go to the courts under English law. If you live in Scotland or Northern Ireland you can sue in your own country's courts instead. There is no forced arbitration and no class-action waiver.
If you live in Scotland, you can bring legal proceedings in respect of the Terms in either the Scottish or the English courts.
+ ADDEDSite is aimed at UK users only
The terms say the site is meant for people accessing it from the UK. If you use it elsewhere, following your local laws is your problem.
Our Site is intended for use only by those who can access it from within the United Kingdom.

Full text changes

COLOUR MARKS THE SEVERITY OF A FLAGGED CLAUSE · + AND − MARK ADDED AND REMOVED

+By DAILY MAIL
+Published: 23:50 EDT, 6 June 2011 | Updated: 11:09 EDT, 29 July 2025
+Please note that by using this website or our mobile applications (for example our iPhone and iPad apps) (a "Site"), you accept these Terms. If you do not accept these Terms, do not use this Site. We may change these Terms from time to time, so you should review them each time that you visit the Site. You should print a copy of these Terms for future reference.
+Index
+\. About us
+\. Using our Site
+\. Registration
+\. Your Content - what we are allowed to do
+\. Your Content - what you are not allowed to do
+\. Suspending or terminating your registration
+\. Sponsored content, third party content and links available on this Site
+\. Your personal information
+\. Our liability
+.2. Except for liability for fraudulent misrepresentation, we are not liable for
+\. Maintenance of the Site
+\. General provisions
+\. Jurisdiction and applicable law
+\. About us
+.1. This Site is operated by Associated Newspapers Limited, a company registered in England under company number 84121 with a registered office at Northcliffe House, 9 Derry Street, London W8 5HY ("we", "us", "our"). Our VAT number is GB 243571174. You can contact us [here](https://dailymail.co.uk/home/contactus/index.html).
+\. Using our Site
+.1. You may view (and, where applicable, listen to) the content available on the Site for personal non-commercial use only and subject to your strict compliance with these Terms. You may occasionally print individual webpages on the Site for your private non-commercial use, provided that such printing is not substantial or systematic and our trade marks and copyright and trade mark notices are not removed.
+.2. Without limiting clause 2.1 above and unless expressly authorised by us in writing, you must not (whether directly or indirectly) access or use (or permit, authorise or facilitate the access or use of) the Site or any portion of the Site or any data, content, information or services accessed via the Site in any of the following ways (without limitation):
+i. to copy, download, extract, collect, 'scrape', obtain, monitor or store all or any part of the content or Site, including whether manually or by way of any 'bot/robot', 'spider', 'scraper' or other automated software, device, algorithm, code, methodology, tool, process or similar technology (other than any such use by a public search engine for the sole purpose of providing direct links to the Site);
+ii. to make available, distribute, republish, publicly perform, create derivative works from, sell or offer to sell all or any part of the content or Site other than as expressly authorized by us in writing; or
+iii. to use any content, files or data from the Site to make or populate a database or publication of any kind whatsoever, to develop or train any software program (including any machine learning or artificial intelligence systems), or for the purpose of text/ data mining or analysis to generate information which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations.
+The provisions in this clause 2.2 relating to text/data mining and web scraping (a) should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard, and (b) shall not apply insofar as (but only to the extent that) we are unable to exclude or limit text/data mining or web scraping activity by contract under the laws which are applicable to us. If you require any further information on permitted use, or a licence to re publish or otherwise utilise any part of the Site (or any Content), please email us at editorial@dailymail.co.uk or contact us by telephone on 020 7938 6000 or contact The Newspaper Licencing Association - [www.nla.co.uk](http://www.nla.co.uk/).
+.3. You may only play video or audio files using the media player on our Site.
+.4. If you would like a friend to read a story or watch or listen to a video or audio file on our Site, please use the 'Email' or 'Share' facilities on our Site, or you may email a link to our Site to your friend or simply ask them to visit our Site. Please ensure that you have their consent before giving us their details.
+.5. You must not use all or any part of our Site or the contents on it for commercial purposes without our permission.
+.6. Users, whether or not registered, must not abuse our Report Abuse facility e.g. by making malicious reports.
+.7. Information posted on Daily Mail official social media accounts, including X (f/k/a Twitter) and Facebook, is often published just as breaking news occurs and may not be amended or removed following updates made to articles. Whilst every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of posts, for the most current version of a story, readers should visit [www.dailymail.com](https://dailymail.co.uk/)
+.8. You may use and display on your website or social networking profile page content on our Site where an embed code is provided (the "Embeddable Content") subject to these Terms and on the following conditions:
+i. Any use of the Embeddable Content must be for personal, non-commercial purposes. You may not charge users of your website for access to the Embeddable Content, use the Content as means to secure advertising, or commercialise the Embeddable Content in any other way.
+ii. All intellectual property rights in and to the Embeddable Content, embed code and the embeddable player shall remain the property of us and/or our licensors.
+iii. The Embeddable Content cannot be used on any websites that:
+     a. contain unlawful text or images; or
+     b. contain pornography or sexually explicit content; or
+     c. contain gratuitous violence; or
+     d. condone or encourage unlawful acts.
+iv. You may only use the Embeddable Content where Your Site:
+a. complies with all applicable data protection and privacy laws, codes of practice and the self-regulatory principles for online behavioural advertising; and
+b. clearly explains that cookies and similar tracking technologies may be used on Your Site by third parties for analytics and advertising purposes and (if required by law) a link to our [privacy policy](https://dailymail.co.uk/privacy).
+v. We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the embeddable computer code to display on Your Site the Content.
+vi. You may not copy, re-publish, edit, alter, add to or use the embed code or embeddable player in any other way.
+vii. All title, ownership rights and intellectual property rights in and to the Embeddable Content, the embed code and the embeddable player shall remain our property of the property of our licensors.
+viii. You may not directly or indirectly suggest any endorsement or approval by us of your site or any entity, product or content or any views expressed within your site without our prior written approval.
+ix. You may not use the Embeddable Content in any way that could bring us into disrepute or otherwise cause any loss or damage to us.
+x. The Embeddable Content is made available by us on an "as is" and "as available" basis and We give no warranty of any kind in relation to the Embeddable Content, embed code or the embeddable player, including warranties related to non-infringement of third party rights. We disclaim all implied and statutory warranties to the maximum extent permitted by law.
+xi. You agree to reimburse Us in respect of all damages, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees and litigation expenses, arising out of or as a result of any breach of these Embedding Terms or otherwise in connection with your use of the Embeddable Content and/or the embeddable code and player.
+.9 We update our Site regularly and reserve the right to add, remove and otherwise change the Site and/or its content at any time.
+.10 From time to time, we may update our Terms. The revised Terms will be available on our Site. Please check back regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes we may make. If you continue to use our Site after we make any changes, you will be deemed to have accepted any changes to our Terms . If you do not agree to such changes, we ask you not to use our Site. These Terms were last updated on the date stated at the top of this page.
+.11 Our Site is intended for use only by those who can access it from within the United Kingdom. If you choose to access our Site from locations outside the United Kingdom, you are responsible for compliance with local laws.
+\. Registration
+.1. You must be 16 years old or older to register and submit material (e.g. comments) to the Site.
+.2. Only one registration per person is allowed. You must keep your registration information up to date.
+.3. You must choose an email address which gives you frequent access to emails sent to that address, as we need to be able to contact you. You must keep your password confidential.
+.4 You must not:
+     (i) impersonate or try to impersonate another person;
+     (ii) disclose your password to anyone else;
+     (iii) allow anyone else use your account;
+     (iv) use anyone else's account.
+.5. You are responsible for everything done using your account. If you think that someone else may have access to, or be using, your password or account, you must tell us as soon as possible by emailing [community@dailymail.co.uk](mailto:community@dailymail.co.uk).
+\. Your content - what we are allowed to do
+.1. We may publish, check, edit or remove all or part of the comments or other material, including your name, town and country, which you submit to us ('Your Content'), at our sole discretion. We are not obliged to do any of these things and we may not.
+.2. You retain any copyright you may have in Your Content. By submitting material to us, you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive worldwide licence to use, copy, edit, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, make available, communicate and distribute Your Content (in whole or part) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed. By submitting Your Content, you warrant that you have the right to grant this licence. The licence is capable of sub-license by us to other entities and brands in our group of companies (including, without limitation, This is Money, Metro, The i paper)
+.3. To the extent permitted by law, you waive your moral rights (e.g. the right to be identified as author or to object to derogatory treatment) in Your Content.
+This clause 4 means, for example (without limitation), that we can:
+Continue to publish all or part of Your Content, including your name, town and country, even if you change your mind and want us to remove it and/or you are no longer registered with the Site;
+Remove Your Content, even if you have not breached these Terms or our House Rules;
+Use all or part of Your Content in promoting our products and services (e.g. we may use a screenshot including your comments in our advertising);
+Edit your Content, which may result in a part of it being modified and displayed, including without your name. Please note that we do not check, monitor, moderate or even see all the comments and other material submitted to us. While some comments are pre-moderated (i.e. checked in advance by us before publication), some are not (see our FAQ for more details).
+.4 We make no guarantee that your content will be kept on the Site for any length of time, and we reserve the right to remove your content as we see fit. You are urged to keep back-up copies of any of Your Content submitted to us. The Site should not be used as your primary method to store or curate copies of your images, videos or text, as your content may be removed permanently from the Site at any time, and we may not keep copies of your content.
+\. Your content - what you are not allowed to do
+.1. You must not submit any material to our Site that:
+     (a) is:
+(i) defamatory, malicious, threatening, false, misleading, offensive, abusive, discriminatory, harassing, blasphemous or racist,
+(ii) indecent, obscene or of a sexual nature,
+(iii) a breach of confidentiality or someone's privacy;
+     (b) could prejudice any active legal proceedings of which you are aware;
+     (c) is likely to:
+(i) cause someone alarm, anxiety or distress;
+(ii) encourage violence or racial or religious hatred;
+     (d) infringes any intellectual property rights, such as copyright and trade marks. This means generally that you must own the rights in everything you submit or must obtain permission from the rights owner to submit the material;
+     (e) is technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software, harmful data or conduct);
+    (f) advertises any product or services;
+    (g) impersonates anyone else or otherwise misrepresents your identity, affiliation or status;
+    (h) is in breach of these Terms, our [Privacy Policy](https://dailymail.co.uk/privacy), and/or [House Rules](https://dailymail.co.uk/home/house_rules.html);
+     (i) is, encourages or teaches conduct that is a criminal offence, gives rise to civil liability, or is otherwise unlawful;
+.2. You must not include links on the Site to any websites or webpages.
+.3. You must not try to get round any protections we put in place for the security and operation of the Site.
+.4. You must not re-submit content which you are aware has been removed.
+\. Suspending or terminating your registration
+.1. We may suspend, terminate or prevent your registration at our sole discretion. This may be because, for example, we consider that you have breached or will breach these Terms or our House Rules or someone has reported abuse. However, we are not obliged to do these things, we decide.
+.2. Where we suspend, terminate or prevent your registration, you must not attempt to re-register or submit content (e.g. using someone else's registration), without our permission. The period of any suspension depends on all the circumstances.
+.3 Any use by you of the Site or its contents in a manner not expressly permitted by our Terms may mean that you are infringing our rights and/or the rights of our licensors. We and our licensors reserve all rights and remedies available in respect of any such infringement.
+\. Sponsored content, third party content and links available on this Site
+.1. Where you see the label "Sponsored Content" on an article on this Site it means that our Publisher/Editor retains editorial control and sign off of the article. Where you see the label "Advertorial" these are also written by our journalists but control and final sign off lies with the advertiser.
+.2. We are not liable or responsible for the third party content on this Site. Third party content includes, for example, comments posted by users and the content of advertisements.
+.3. Where this Site contains links to other sites and resources, which are provided by third parties, these links and resources are provided for your information only and you access them at your own risk. We are not liable or responsible for the content of third party sites or resources.
+If you see something which you reasonably believe breaches these Terms or our House Rules, please use the Report Abuse facility. If there is no facility available, please contact us on community@dailymail.co.uk.
+\. Your personal information
+.1. We will use your personal information in accordance with our privacy policy. Please read our Privacy Policy now.
+\. Our liability
+.1. The information contained on this Site is for information purposes only and does not constitute advice. You should check any information on the Site and use your own judgement before doing or not doing anything on the basis of what you see. We give no warranties of any kind in relation to the Site or its contents.
+.2. Except for liability for fraudulent misrepresentation, we are not liable for:
+(a) any action you may take as a result of relying on any information provided on this Site or for any loss or damage suffered by you as a result of you taking this action;
+(b) any dealings you have with third parties (e.g. other users, advertisers or promoters) that take place using or facilitated by the Site;
+(c) any liability for losses which are not a foreseeable or likely consequence of (i) your use of the Site, or (ii) a breach of these Terms; and
+(d) any loss or damage which you may suffer as a result of or connected to your use of the embed code, player or the Embeddable Content.
+.3. We are not responsible if you cannot access the Site properly or at all because of any event outside our control, for example (without limitation) the performance of your or our ISP, your browser or the Internet.
+.4. The Site relies in part on software to work. Software has bugs. Whilst we will monitor the Site and try to fix bugs, we cannot guarantee that the Site or any individual feature of the Site will be error free, available all the time and/or free from viruses. You are responsible for putting in place your own internet security and safety measures.
+.5. However, nothing in these Terms will affect any liability we may have for death or personal injury arising from our negligence or any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited by law.
+\. Maintenance of the Site
+.1. Making your use of the Site enjoyable means we need to fix bugs, install updates and do general diagnosis and maintenance of the Site. We will try to do scheduled maintenance during times when we anticipate that online use is lower than normal.
+.2. We also need to be able to do emergency maintenance and/or suspend access to the servers where, in our reasonable discretion, we see the need to do that. We will try to have the Site available again as soon as we think it is safe to do so.
+\. General provisions
+.1 If any part or provision of these Terms is found to be unlawful or unenforceable, this shall not affect the validity of any other part or provision.
+.2 You may not assign, sub-license or otherwise transfer any rights under our Terms.
+.3 These Terms are between you and us. Nobody else can enforce them and neither of us will need to ask anybody else to sign-off on ending or changing them.
+.4 We might not immediately chase you for not doing something or for doing something you're not allowed to, but that doesn't mean we can't do it later.
+\. Jurisdiction and applicable law
+.1. These Terms are governed by English law, and you can bring legal proceedings in respect of these Terms in the English courts. If you live in Scotland, you can bring legal proceedings in respect of the Terms in either the Scottish or the English courts. If you live in Northern Ireland, you can bring legal proceedings in respect of the Terms in either the Northern Irish or the English courts.