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The Company may incur charges for additional services it did not explicitly choose, with its continued use treated as binding acceptance of those services' terms.
Checkout.com may enrol you in chargeable services without your prior active consent; using those services will be treated as acceptance of their terms and associated costs.
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"To use the Intelligent Acceptance Service, Checkout.com may automatically opt the Company into other chargeable Services, and should it do so, the relevant Service Terms will apply and the Company's usage of such Services will constitute acceptance...Excerpt from Checkout.com's Terms
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The Company may incur charges for additional services it did not explicitly choose, with its continued use treated as binding acceptance of those services' terms.
Checkout.com may enrol you in chargeable services without your prior active consent; using those services will be treated as acceptance of their terms and associated costs.
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