Last updated: 1 October 2026
These Terms and Conditions apply to your use of Meditation Research at https://www.meditation-research.org.uk and to any free or paid membership you take out through the site.
Meditation Research is a trading name of Peter Malinowski, sole trader in the United Kingdom.
Contact details
Peter Malinowski
Level One, Basecamp Liverpool
49 Jamaica Street
Liverpool
L1 0AH GB
Email: admin@meditation-research.org.uk
Telephone (voicemail): +44 151 660 6437
Voicemail messages are monitored. For the quickest response, please contact us by email.
Please read these Terms before using the site or taking out a membership. Nothing in these Terms affects rights you may have under applicable consumer law.
1. About Meditation Research
Meditation Research provides research-based information, commentary and educational material about meditation, mindfulness and related topics. Some material is publicly available and some is available only to members.
The site is intended for information and education. It does not provide medical, psychological, legal or other professional advice and should not be used as a substitute for advice from an appropriately qualified professional.
2. Free and paid membership
You may be able to register as a free member or take out a paid Research Membership.
The current features, prices and billing periods for each membership option are shown on the Membership and signup pages before you subscribe. Research Membership may include access to members-only articles and guides, commenting on eligible blog posts, and the Meditation Research newsletter and research updates.
You must provide accurate information when creating an account and keep your email address up to date. Membership is personal to you and may not be transferred to another person.
Our membership system is provided through Ghost(Pro), a hosted publishing and membership platform. It uses passwordless sign-in links rather than a conventional password. You are responsible for keeping access to your email account secure and for notifying us if you believe your membership account is being misused.
3. Prices, free trials and payment
Prices are shown before you subscribe. Unless stated otherwise, prices include any applicable taxes.
Where a free trial is offered, the length of the trial and the amount you will be charged afterwards are displayed before you subscribe. Unless you cancel before the end of the trial, the selected paid membership will begin and the stated subscription charge will be taken.
Paid memberships renew automatically at the billing interval you select — currently monthly or yearly — until you cancel future renewal.
Payments are processed securely by Stripe, our payment processor. We do not receive or store your full card details.
4. Cancelling a membership and statutory cancellation rights
You can cancel future renewal of your paid membership at any time through your membership/account portal, provided the cancellation is completed before the next renewal payment is processed. Cancellation stops future renewal; your paid access normally continues until the end of the period you have already paid for.
If you cancel during a free trial before the first payment is due, you will not be charged for the paid membership.
If you are a consumer, you may also have statutory cancellation rights, including rights that may apply during the first 14 days of a distance contract. Those rights can differ depending on whether the contract involves services, digital content, or both.
Nothing in these Terms asks you to give up a statutory cancellation right merely by accepting these Terms. If you wish to exercise a statutory cancellation right, contact us at admin@meditation-research.org.uk. We will deal with the request in accordance with the law applicable to your contract, including any rules concerning digital content or services already supplied.
Except where the law requires otherwise, payments already made are not refundable simply because you choose to stop using the membership before the end of a paid period. This does not affect any statutory rights you may have where a service or digital content is faulty, misdescribed or not supplied with reasonable care and skill.
5. Newsletter and service emails
Research Membership includes the Meditation Research newsletter and related research updates by email. You can unsubscribe from newsletter emails at any time using the unsubscribe link in a newsletter. Unsubscribing from the newsletter does not cancel or otherwise affect your Research Membership.
If you subscribe to the newsletter without becoming a paid member, we will send the newsletter because you asked to receive it. You can unsubscribe at any time.
We may still send essential account or service messages where necessary, for example sign-in links, payment information, changes affecting your membership, or replies to messages you send us.
6. Comments
Paid members may be able to comment on eligible blog posts.
You remain responsible for anything you post. Please do not post content that is unlawful, defamatory, abusive, threatening, discriminatory, infringing, deliberately misleading, spam, advertising, or otherwise inappropriate for a research-focused discussion.
We may moderate, hide or remove comments, or restrict commenting access, where we reasonably consider this necessary to protect the site, other users or third parties, or to enforce these Terms.
If a member account is deleted, Ghost may retain existing comments while replacing the author identity with a label such as "Deleted member". If you want us to consider removing a particular comment, contact us.
7. Acceptable use
You must not use the site in a way that is unlawful, fraudulent, harmful, or intended to disrupt, damage or obtain unauthorised access to the site, its systems or other users' accounts.
You must not attempt to scrape, reproduce, redistribute or commercially exploit substantial parts of the site or members-only material except where permitted by law or with our written permission.
Reasonable linking to publicly available pages is welcome provided it does not falsely suggest endorsement or affiliation.
8. Copyright and permitted use
Unless otherwise stated, the text, design, graphics and other original material on Meditation Research are protected by copyright and other intellectual-property rights belonging to Peter Malinowski or the relevant rights holder.
You may read, download or print material for your own personal, non-commercial use. You may quote short extracts for purposes such as criticism, review, scholarship or discussion where permitted by law and with appropriate attribution.
A membership does not transfer ownership of any intellectual-property rights to you and does not permit redistribution of members-only material to others.
9. Research information and professional advice
Meditation Research aims to represent research accurately and to distinguish evidence from interpretation, but research changes over time and individual studies can be uncertain, incomplete or later superseded.
Content on the site is provided for general information and education. It is not a diagnosis, treatment recommendation or substitute for medical, psychological or other professional advice. If you have concerns about your health or wellbeing, seek advice from an appropriately qualified professional.
10. Availability and changes to the service
We aim to keep the site and membership service available, but uninterrupted access cannot be guaranteed. Maintenance, technical failures, third-party services or other circumstances may occasionally make some or all of the site unavailable.
We may make reasonable changes to the site's content, organisation, membership features or technical operation. If we make a material change to a paid membership that significantly reduces what you have already paid for, we will take reasonable steps to notify affected members and, where appropriate, provide a proportionate remedy.
11. Liability and your statutory rights
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability where it would be unlawful to do so, including liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.
Nothing in these Terms limits your statutory rights as a consumer.
Subject to those protections, we are responsible for losses that are a foreseeable result of our breach of these Terms or our failure to use reasonable care and skill. We are not responsible for losses that were not reasonably foreseeable, for losses caused by circumstances outside our reasonable control, or for business losses suffered by someone using the site mainly for commercial purposes.
Links to external websites and embedded third-party services are provided for convenience or context. We are not responsible for the content, availability or privacy practices of third-party services.
12. Suspending or ending access
You may stop using the free service at any time and may cancel future renewal of paid membership as described above.
We may suspend or terminate an account where we reasonably believe that you have seriously or repeatedly breached these Terms, misused the service, interfered with other users, or used the site unlawfully.
If we end a paid membership for reasons unrelated to your breach, we will take reasonable steps to provide access for the remainder of the paid period or an appropriate refund for any material unused portion.
13. Privacy
Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect and use personal information, including information relating to membership, newsletters, comments, analytics and payment services. It forms part of the information we provide to you about the service but is not intended to reduce any rights you have under data-protection law.
14. Complaints and contacting us
If you have a question or complaint about the site or your membership, please contact:
Peter Malinowski
Meditation Research
Level One, Basecamp Liverpool
49 Jamaica Street
Liverpool
L1 0AH GB
Email: admin@meditation-research.org.uk
We will try to resolve complaints reasonably and promptly.
15. Governing law
These Terms are governed by the law of England and Wales.
If you are a consumer living elsewhere in the United Kingdom, this does not deprive you of any mandatory protections available under the law of the part of the UK in which you live, and nothing in these Terms prevents you from using any court that consumer law entitles you to use.
16. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time, for example because the service changes or because legal requirements change. The current version will always be published on this page with its update date.
If a change materially affects an existing paid membership, we will take reasonable steps to bring it to the attention of affected members before it takes effect where appropriate.
