Legal
The short version: if you buy an edition and it is not what you hoped, tell us within 14 days and you get your money back. No interrogation, no “retention specialist”, no form with a mandatory dropdown about your feelings.
The short version: you can change your mind within 14 days of your first payment for the Library or a Year Pass. That is your legal right, and we refund the payment in full even if you have started reading. To ask, use solonpress.com/cancel#withdraw, the link in your Paddle receipt, or one line to chief@solonpress.com.
Effective 21 August 2026 Updated 9 October 2026Updated 1 December 2026
This policy applies to one-time purchases of paid editions on Solon Press. The flagship M&A edition and the first chapter of every edition are free — where nothing was paid, there is nothing to refund, and this policy does not apply to them.
From 1 February 2027 single editions are no longer sold, and the Library takes their place. Its first payment, monthly or for a Year Pass, can be cancelled within 14 days: that is your legal right, and we refund it in full; this policy will set out the details before then. An edition you bought stays yours.
This policy covers three kinds of payment:
You can stop a monthly plan at any time, and nothing more is charged after the month you have paid for. A later monthly payment is refunded only where the law requires it.
Firms and universities. A purchase for a firm, university or other organisation is a business purchase, and we do not refund it. The one exception: if you are in fact a consumer who bought it by mistake, tell us within 14 days of the first payment and we will refund you in full (Terms section 7A).
The flagship M&A edition, and the first chapter and the glossary of every edition, are free. Where nothing was paid, there is nothing to refund, and this policy does not apply.
Launch access. Until the end of 31 January 2027 every edition is free to read in full with a free account. An account opened by the end of that day keeps every edition published by then, for good. An account opened before 15 October 2026 (UK time) keeps every edition, including editions published later — see Launch access in the Terms. Nothing is paid for it, so there is nothing to refund: this policy applies only to paid purchases.
Paid purchases on this Site are processed by Paddle, acting as merchant of record — the party that actually sells you the editionwhat you buy (the Library, a Year Pass or, before 1 February 2027, an edition), collects payment, applies any VAT or sales tax, and issues your receipt. Your card details go to Paddle, never to us. Paddle's own buyer terms apply to the payment transaction alongside this policy and our Terms.
If you ask within 14 days of purchase, we will refund an edition in full. You can ask in either of two ways:
Refunds are made to the original payment method. Allow a few business days for the banking system to do its banking.
You can change your mind within 14 days of the first payment of a monthly plan, or of the payment for a Year Pass. That is your legal right, and we refund the payment in full even if you have started reading. You do not have to give a reason. Ask in any of these ways:
A refund of the first payment of a monthly plan ends the subscription. A refund of a later payment does not. Refunds go back to the card or account you paid with, within 14 days of your request.
If you withdraw twice within six months, we ask you to write to us before you subscribe again. This never affects your right to withdraw.
This is the model cancellation form from the UK Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013 (Schedule 3, Part B), with our details filled in. You do not have to use it: an email or the cancel page works just as well. Complete and return it only if you wish to withdraw from the contract.
To Simple Digital Partners Ltd, Sotiras, 2, Tziovani Building, Flat/Office 6, Paralimni, 5286, Famagusta, Cyprus, chief@solonpress.com:
I/We [*] hereby give notice that I/We [*] cancel my/our [*] contract of sale of the following goods [*]/for the supply of the following service [*],
Ordered on [*]/received on [*],
Name of consumer(s),
Address of consumer(s),
Signature of consumer(s) (only if this form is notified on paper),
Date
[*] Delete as appropriate.
We reserve the right to decline a refund where the pattern says the policy is being used as a free rental scheme — for example, an account that completes an edition's final exam and then requests a refund, repeatedly. We expect to invoke this rarely, and boringly: genuine dissatisfaction is always a good enough reason. This exception never limits your legal right to cancel within 14 days.
For a single edition bought before 1 February 2027, we may decline a refund where the pattern says the policy is being used as a free rental scheme, for example an account that completes an edition's final exam and then asks for a refund, again and again. We expect to invoke this rarely, and boringly: genuine dissatisfaction is always a good enough reason. It never applies to the Library or a Year Pass: within 14 days of the first payment we refund in full, whatever you have read. This exception never limits your legal right to cancel within 14 days.
Write to us anyway. Later refunds are at our discretion, but “discretion” is exercised by people who remember being on the other side of a disappointing purchase.
Nothing in this policy limits any right you have under applicable consumer protection law that cannot be waived or limited. Where such law gives you more than this policy does, the law wins — which is, on reflection, how we would draft it anyway.