Terms of Use

These are the terms on which you may use ennuination.com and the services provided on it.

Who we are

ennuination.com is operated by Ennui Nation Ltd, a private limited company registered in England and Wales (company number 12831774), whose registered office is at Mentor House, Ainsworth Street, Blackburn, Lancashire, BB1 6AY, United Kingdom — care of our accountants, for formal legal and statutory correspondence only. Ennui Nation is an online publication with no public office and cannot receive visitors; for anything else, please email us.

Contact: hello@ennuination.com

The legal frameworks under which we publish — defamation, privacy, data protection, contempt, source protection, election law, copyright, anti-SLAPP and recognised news publisher status — are described on our Legal Framework page.

These terms

By using the site, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the site.

We may update these terms from time to time. Material changes will be notified on the site.

1. Using the site

You may:

  • Read our published work — all of it, free.
  • Sign up to our newsletter.
  • Become a supporter by subscribing.
  • Make a donation.
  • Contact us.

You must not:

  • Use the site or our content in any way that is unlawful.
  • Attempt to access any part of the site you are not authorised to access.
  • Attempt to interfere with the operation or security of the site.
  • Use automated tools to extract or scrape content at scale without our written permission.
  • Use the site to send harassing, abusive or unlawful communications.

2. Our content and trademarks

Unless otherwise stated, all written, visual and audio content on the site is owned by Ennui Nation Ltd or licensed to us.

Ennui Nation® is a registered trade mark of Ennui Nation Ltd (UK trade mark No. UK00004360922). The Ennui Nation name, logo and brand identity may not be used, reproduced, imitated or registered as a trademark by any third party without the written permission of Ennui Nation Ltd.

You may:

  • Read, share and link to our content.
  • Quote short extracts for the purposes of commentary, criticism, review or news reporting, with attribution, as permitted by UK copyright law.

You must not:

  • Republish whole articles or substantial extracts without our written permission.
  • Use our content to train machine learning or AI models without our written permission.
  • Remove attribution or present our work as your own.

For permission requests, email legal@ennuination.com.

3. Supporter subscriptions and donations

All editorial content on ennuination.com is free to read for everyone. There is no paywall. Articles, collections, investigations and series are open to every reader.

Supporter subscriptions are voluntary, at £2 per month, billed through Stripe and renewing automatically until you cancel. Becoming a supporter does not unlock any content — it gives Ennui Nation a regular income so we can keep doing the work. In return, supporters receive:

  • A choice of newsletters — you pick which of our newsletter streams you receive from the options available.
  • Topic submission — you can submit topics, subjects, stories or issues for the editor to consider covering. Submissions inform what gets worked on next; they do not come with publication guarantees.

You can cancel at any time through your account. Your supporter status continues to the end of the current billing period.

Refunds. We do not offer automatic refunds for supporter periods already paid. If you believe you are entitled to a refund (for example, because of a billing error or a failure on our side), email hello@ennuination.com and we will consider it fairly. Your statutory rights under UK consumer law are not affected.

Donations are voluntary one-off or recurring contributions in any amount you choose. They are not refundable except in the case of a technical error; contact hello@ennuination.com. Donations are not charitable gifts for UK tax purposes.

4. User-submitted content

Where we provide features that let you submit content (for example, a comment section, a reader feedback form, a source submission), you confirm that:

  • The content is yours to submit.
  • It does not infringe anyone else's rights.
  • It is not unlawful, defamatory, harassing, or obscene.

We may moderate, remove or decline to publish submitted content at our discretion. We do not undertake to publish every submission.

We link to other sites for editorial reasons. We do not control those sites and we are not responsible for their content or practices. Following a link is at your own discretion.

6. Availability

We aim to keep the site available, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted service. Maintenance, outages, or actions by our hosting providers may interrupt access. We are not liable for losses resulting from such interruptions.

7. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Ennui Nation Ltd is not liable for:

  • Indirect, incidental or consequential loss arising from use of the site or reliance on its content.
  • Loss of profits, goodwill or data.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, or any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

8. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales. Any dispute will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

9. Contact

Ennui Nation Ltd — hello@ennuination.com