Updated: 30th July 2026
1. Introduction
1.1 These Membership Terms and Website Conditions of Use (“Terms”) govern memberships with Daily Sceptic and your use of our website.
1.2 By using our website, you accept these Terms in full. If you disagree with these Terms or any part of these Terms, please do not use our website.
1.3 You must be at least 16 years of age to use our website; by using our website or agreeing to these Terms, you warrant and represent to us that you are at least 16 years of age.
1.4 Daily Sceptic is published by Skeptics Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales. Our company registration number and registered office address are set out in Section 25 below.
2. Copyright notice
2.1 Copyright (c) 2026 Skeptics Ltd, trading as Daily Sceptic.
3. Permission to use website
3.1 You may:
(a) view pages from our website on your device;
(b) download pages from our website for caching in a web browser;
(c) print pages from our website for your own personal and non-commercial use; and
(d) stream audio and video files from our website using the media player on our website
subject to the other provisions of these Terms.
3.2 Except as expressly permitted by Section 3.1 or the other provisions of these Terms, please do not download any material from our website or save any such material to your computer.
3.3 You may only use our website for your own personal use; you must not use our website for any other purposes.
3.4 Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not without our prior written consent:
(a) republish material from our website (including republication on another website);
(b) sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;
(c) show any material from our website in public;
(d) exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or
(e) redistribute material from our website.
3.5 You may redistribute our newsletter in print and electronic form to any person.
3.6 We reserve the right to suspend or restrict access to our website, to areas of our website and/or to functionality upon our website. We may, for example, suspend access to the website during maintenance or when we update the website. You must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on the website.
4. Misuse of website
4.1 You must not:
(a) use our website in any unlawful or fraudulent way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability, accessibility, integrity or security of the website;
(b) probe, scan or test the vulnerability of our website without our permission;
(c) circumvent any authentication or security systems or processes on or relating to our website;
(d) use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;
(e) decrypt or decipher any communications sent by or to our website without our permission;
(f) conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent; or
(g) access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of search engine indexing.
4.2 You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our website, or subsequently, is true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.
5. Login details
5.1 If you have signed up for a user account on our website, we will provide you with a password (or ask you to set one) which we recommend you keep memorable and secure.
5.2 You must keep your password confidential. Please notify us immediately if you become aware of any disclosure of your password because you will be responsible and liable for all activity on your account until you do so.
6. Membership fees and payment
6.1 Certain areas of our website and certain content, features and services (“Paid Services”) are only available to members who pay a subscription fee (“Membership Fee”).
6.2 The Membership Fee applicable to each level of membership, and whether it is charged monthly, annually or on some other basis, will be clearly shown to you before you enter into a contract with us, together with the payment method(s) we accept.
6.3 All fees are shown in pounds sterling (GBP) and are inclusive of any value added tax (VAT) or other applicable sales tax, unless stated otherwise at the point of purchase.
6.4 Payment is processed for us by a third-party payment provider. We do not store your full card details ourselves. By making a payment, you also agree to that payment provider’s own terms of use.
6.5 We may change the Membership Fee from time to time. Any change will not affect a payment you have already made, but will take effect at your next renewal. Where reasonably practicable, we will give you at least 30 days’ notice of any increase in the Membership Fee before it applies to you, and you may cancel your membership before the increase takes effect.
6.6 Unless you cancel in accordance with Section 7 or Section 8, your membership will renew automatically at the end of each subscription period, and we will charge the then-current Membership Fee to your chosen payment method.
7. Your right to cancel (cooling-off period)
7.1 If you are a consumer (that is, acting wholly or mainly outside the purposes of a trade, business, craft or profession), you have a legal right under the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 to cancel your Paid Services contract with us within 14 days of the day you subscribe, without giving any reason, and to receive a full refund.
7.2 Because our Paid Services are, or include, digital content and/or services that are typically made available to you immediately, we will ask you, when you subscribe, to expressly consent to us beginning to supply the Paid Services during the 14-day cancellation period, and to acknowledge that:
(a) if the Paid Services consist wholly of digital content not supplied on a tangible medium (for example, access to premium articles or podcasts) and full performance has begun with your consent, you will lose your right to cancel once performance has begun; and
(b) if the Paid Services are, or include, an ongoing service (for example, ad-free browsing or a members’ forum) and you cancel after that service has started with your consent, you will be liable to pay us a reasonable amount for the service provided up to the point you told us you were cancelling.
7.3 If you do not give the consent described in Section 7.2, we will not provide you with access to the Paid Services until the 14-day cancellation period has ended.
7.4 To cancel during the cooling-off period, please email us using the details in Section 25, or use any cancellation function provided in your account settings, before the period expires. Where a refund is due, we will pay it using the same method you used to pay, normally within 14 days of being notified of your cancellation.
7.5 This Section 7 is in addition to, and does not affect, your right to cancel your ongoing membership at any time as described in Section 8.
8. Ending your membership
8.1 You may cancel your membership, or close your user account, at any time by emailing us at the address in Section 25, or via your account settings if this function is available. Cancellation will take effect at the end of the subscription period you have already paid for, unless you are exercising your cooling-off right under Section 7.
8.2 Except where you are entitled to a refund under Section 7, or where the law otherwise requires, Membership Fees are non-refundable, including where you cancel part-way through a subscription period.
8.3 We may:
(a) suspend your user account; or
(b) cancel your user account,
at any time in our sole discretion, acting reasonably, where we consider you have breached these Terms, and we will normally give you notice and an opportunity to respond first unless the breach is serious or repeated.
8.4 Nothing in this Section 8 affects your statutory rights.
9. Our rights to use your information
9.1 In these Terms, “your information” means all information that you submit to us which relates to a matter with which you would like Daily Sceptic’s support or assistance, and any materials which we prepare in relation to your matter.
9.2 You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to reproduce, store and, with your specific consent, publish your information on and in relation to this website, for example, in comments or on the forums. If you do not consent to us publishing your information, we will only refer to your matter anonymously.
9.3 You warrant that your information is true, accurate, lawful and not misleading.
10. Rules about any content you post on the website
10.1 In this clause, “your content” means any messages or posts you send or publish on the website.
10.2 You grant us the rights we need to send any messages or publish your posts on our website.
10.3 You promise that your content will not be unlawful, illegal or infringe any person’s legal rights. In addition, please ensure your content is not:
(a) obscene or indecent;
(b) discriminatory on the grounds of race or religion;
(c) depicting violence in an explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner;
(d) pornographic, lewd, suggestive or sexually explicit;
(e) untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading;
(f) consisting of or containing any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage;
(g) spam; or
(h) objectively offensive, deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, or inflammatory.
11. Your personal data
11.1 How we use your personal data is explained in detail in our Privacy Policy at https://dailysceptic.org/privacy-policy/.
11.2 During the course of the existence of your user account or if you correspond with us, through the website or otherwise, we will need to use your personal data. If you provide to us personal data relating to others, then you confirm to us that you have a lawful basis for doing so under data protection law. Where that basis is consent, then you confirm to us that you have secured the consent of the data subject to our using their data.
12. Limited warranties
12.1 We do not warrant or represent:
(a) the completeness or accuracy of any information published on our website or provided by us;
(b) that the material on the website is up to date;
(c) that the website will operate without fault; or
(d) that the website or any service offered on the website will remain available at all times.
12.2 We reserve the right to shut down Daily Sceptic and/or stop publishing our website at any time in our sole discretion, subject to Section 8 (which governs your right to a refund in those circumstances if you are a paying member).
12.3 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 13.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these Terms, our website and the use of our website. If you are a consumer, this does not affect your statutory rights, including your rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 in relation to services being carried out with reasonable care and skill.
13. Limitations and exclusions of liability
13.1 Nothing in these Terms will:
(a) limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;
(b) limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
(c) limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or
(d) exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law,
and, if you are a consumer, your statutory rights will not be excluded or limited by these Terms, except to the extent permitted by law.
13.2 The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 13 and elsewhere in these Terms:
(a) are subject to Section 13.1; and
(b) govern all liabilities arising under these Terms or relating to the subject matter of these Terms, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these Terms.
13.3 To the extent that any part of our website and the information and services on it are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature in relation to that free part, save as set out in Section 13.1.
13.4 We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.
13.5 We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.
13.6 We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software, providing that if you contract with us under these Terms as a consumer, this Section 13.6 shall not apply.
13.7 We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage, providing that if you contract with us under these Terms as a consumer, this Section 13.7 shall not apply.
13.8 Where you or others contribute to your loss, Daily Sceptic will be liable only for a fair proportion of your loss, taking into account your or such other’s actions.
13.9 The website user account services we provide to you are only for you.
14. Breaches of these Terms
14.1 Without prejudice to our other rights under these Terms, if you act in a way which we consider to be damaging to the reputation and goodwill associated with Daily Sceptic and/or breach these Terms in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these Terms in any way, we may:
(a) send you one or more formal warnings;
(b) commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and/or
(c) suspend or delete your user account on our website, in accordance with Section 8.3.
15. Third party websites and organisations
15.1 Our website includes hyperlinks to other websites owned and operated by third parties. Such hyperlinks are not recommendations.
15.2 We have no control over third party websites and their contents or third-party organisations, and subject to Section 13.1 we accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
16. Trade marks
16.1 Our logos and our other registered and unregistered trade marks are trade marks belonging to us; we give no permission for the use of these trade marks, and such use may constitute an infringement of our rights.
16.2 The third party registered and unregistered trade marks or service marks on our website are the property of their respective owners and, unless stated otherwise in these Terms, we do not endorse and are not affiliated with any of the holders of any such rights and as such we cannot grant any licence to exercise such rights.
17. Variation
17.1 We may revise these Terms from time to time. The publication date of these Terms is at the top. If you have a user account, we will use reasonable endeavours to notify you by email of any change to these Terms that materially affects your rights or obligations before it takes effect. If you do not accept the changes, you may terminate your user account as described in Section 8.
18. Assignment
18.1 You agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these Terms, providing, if you are a consumer, that such action does not affect the standard of service that you will receive.
18.2 You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these Terms.
19. Severability
19.1 If a provision of these Terms is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.
19.2 If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these Terms would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.
20. Third party rights
20.1 A contract under these Terms is for our benefit and your benefit, and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.
20.2 The exercise of the parties’ rights under a contract under these Terms is not subject to the consent of any third party.
21. Force majeure
21.1 If a force majeure event gives rise to a failure or delay in us performing any obligation under these Terms, that obligation will be suspended for the duration of the force majeure event.
21.2 If we become aware of a force majeure event which gives rise to, or which is likely to give rise to, any failure or delay in us performing any obligation under these Terms, we shall: promptly notify you; and inform you of the period for which it is estimated that such failure or delay will continue.
21.3 If the performance of our obligations under these Terms is affected by a force majeure event, we shall take reasonable steps to mitigate the effects of the force majeure event.
21.4 In this Section 21, force majeure event means an event that is, or a series of related events that are, beyond our reasonable control.
22. Entire agreement
22.1 Subject to Section 13.1, these Terms, together with our privacy and cookies policy, shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our website.
23. Law and jurisdiction
23.1 These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.
23.2 Any disputes relating to these Terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales. If you live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you may also bring proceedings in your local courts.
24. Complaints
24.1 We will not file a copy of these Terms specifically in relation to each member and, if we update these Terms, the version to which you originally agreed will no longer be available on our website. We recommend that you consider saving a copy of these Terms for future reference.
24.2 If you have a complaint, please contact us in the first instance using the details in Section 25 and we will try to resolve it promptly.
24.3 If we are unable to resolve a complaint between us, and you are a consumer, you may be able to refer the matter to your local Trading Standards service or to Citizens Advice for guidance. We do not currently subscribe to a specific alternative dispute resolution (ADR) scheme, but nothing in these Terms affects your right to bring a claim before the courts under Section 23.
25. Our details
25.1 This website is owned and operated by Daily Sceptic, a trading name of Skeptics Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 13246865, whose registered office is at 48 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1JF.
25.2 You can contact us about your membership, including to cancel it, by emailing us here: Contact
