Daily Mail Terms Scorecard

Grade B- — Mostly fair (score 74/100)

The Daily Mail reserves a perpetual, irrevocable license to your content and allows for unilateral changes to terms without notice, while disclaiming liability for site errors.

Broad content license, unilateral changes, and no liability for site errors.

Terms at a glance

Sells your data
UNCLEAR
Forced arbitration
NO
Trains AI on your content
NO
Collects biometric data
UNCLEAR
Shares data with government
UNCLEAR
Easy to cancel
UNCLEAR
Tells you before changes
NO
Deletes data on request
UNCLEAR

What the terms actually say

Section 4.2 — Your Content

By submitting material to us, you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive worldwide licence to use... Your Content.

You grant the company a permanent, non-revocable right to use your content in any way they see fit, forever.

Section 2.10 — Changes to Terms

If you continue to use our Site after we make any changes, you will be deemed to have accepted any changes to our Terms with or without notice.

The company can change the terms at any time without notifying you, and your continued use constitutes acceptance.

Section 9.4 — Liability

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.

The company disclaims responsibility for site errors, downtime, or security issues.

Section 6.1 — Termination

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

The company can terminate your account for any reason without notice or appeal.

Section 4.2 — Copyright

You retain any copyright you may have in Your Content.

You keep the copyright to the material you submit, even though you grant them a license to use it.

Last reviewed 2026-07-27 under rubric v3.5.

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