Grade C+ — Standard consumer terms (score 68/100)
Daily Mail's ToS grants a perpetual irrevocable license to user content (including name/likeness for ads), allows unilateral changes and sole-discretion termination, and forces non-UK users into English courts.
Perpetual content license, unilateral changes, sole-discretion termination
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.
Users grant a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide license to their content that survives account closure and extends to any current or future technology.
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);
The license expressly covers use of user content (including name and likeness) in advertising and continues after account closure.
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. These Terms were last updated on the date stated at the top of this page.
Terms can be changed unilaterally with only passive posting; no email or in-app notification is required and continued use constitutes acceptance.
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.
Accounts may be suspended or terminated at the company's sole discretion with no advance notice or appeal process.
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.
Non-Scottish/NI users must litigate in the English courts, including US and AU edition readers — an inconvenient venue.
You are responsible for putting in place your own internet security and safety measures.
The ToS is silent on any company-side security program or breach-notification obligation and explicitly places the security burden on the user.
you must not... 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)
Third parties are barred from using Daily Mail content to train AI/ML systems (this restricts others, not the company itself).
These Terms are governed by English law, and you can bring legal proceedings in respect of these Terms in the English courts.
The document contains no forced-arbitration or class-action-waiver clause and explicitly preserves the right to sue.
Last reviewed 2026-09-15 under rubric v3.5.