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"For Services subject to usage-based billing, we may initiate a pre-authorization on your credit card for the accrued fees at any point during a billing period.Excerpt from Cloudflare's Terms of Use
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The clause states: “For Services subject to usage-based billing, we may initiate a pre-authorization on your credit card for the accrued fees at any point during a billing period.”
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