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.
1. About us
2. Using our Site
3. Registration
4. Your Content - what we are allowed to do
5. Your Content - what you are not allowed to do
6. Suspending or terminating your registration
7. Sponsored content, third party content and links available on this Site
8. Your personal information
9. Our liability
10. Maintenance of the Site
11. General provisions
12. Jurisdiction and applicable law
1.1. 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.
2.1. 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.
2.2. 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):
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@dailygmail.co.uk or contact us by telephone on 020 7938 6000 or contact The Newspaper Licencing Association - http://www.nla.co.uk.
2.3. You may only play video or audio files using the media player on our Site.
2.4. 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.
2.5. You must not use all or any part of our Site or the contents on it for commercial purposes without our permission.
2.6. Users, whether or not registered, must not abuse our Report Abuse facility e.g. by making malicious reports.
2.7. Information posted on DailyGmail 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 http://www.dailygmail.com
2.8. 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:
2.9 We update our Site regularly and reserve the right to add, remove and otherwise change the Site and/or its content at any time.
2.10 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.
2.11 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.
3.1. You must be 16 years old or older to register and submit material (e.g. comments) to the Site.
3.2. Only one registration per person is allowed. You must keep your registration information up to date.
3.3. 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.
3.4 You must not:
3.5. 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@dailygmail.co.uk.
4.1. 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.
4.2. 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)
4.3. 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:
4.4 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.
5.1. You must not submit any material to our Site that:
5.2. You must not include links on the Site to any websites or webpages.
5.3. You must not try to get round any protections we put in place for the security and operation of the Site.
5.4. You must not re-submit content which you are aware has been removed.
6.1. 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.
6.2. 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.
6.3 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.
7.1. 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.
7.2. 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.
7.3. 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@dailygmail.co.uk.
8.1. We will use your personal information in accordance with our privacy policy. Please read our Privacy Policy now.
9.1. 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.
9.2. Except for liability for fraudulent misrepresentation, we are not liable for:
9.3. 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.
9.4. 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.
9.5. 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.
10.1. 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.
10.2. 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.
11.1 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.
11.2 You may not assign, sub-license or otherwise transfer any rights under our Terms.
11.3 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.
11.4 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.
12.1. 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.