Hulu can automatically obtain your updated credit card number, expiration date, and security code directly from your card provider and continue charging you without you re-entering your payment details.
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This authorization means your subscription can continue to be charged even if your card expires or changes, without any action on your part, which reduces your practical ability to stop charges by simply letting a card expire.
Subscribers who want to stop charges by allowing a card to expire may find that Hulu has already obtained updated card credentials from their payment provider and continued billing, making deliberate non-renewal through card expiry an unreliable cancellation method.
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If a payment is not successfully processed, due to expiration, insufficient funds, or otherwise, you remain responsible for any uncollected amounts and authorize us to continue billing the Payment Method, as it may be updated.
You also authorize us to retry any failed authorizations. We may use data provided to us by our partners to determine when to schedule such retries.
your credit card or other payment information is collected and processed by our third-party payment processors...the payment information that you provide through the Services is transmitted directly to our payment processor.
"Where your details change or are due to expire, we may obtain or receive from your payment provider updated payment details including your card number, expiration date and CVV (or equivalent). This enables us to continue to provide you access to the Services. You authorize us to continue to charge your card using the updated information. In the event of a failed attempt to charge to your primary payment method (e.g. if your payment method has expired), we reserve the right to retry billing your payment method or, where you have consented, to use any other stored payment method associated with your account.Excerpt from Hulu's Subscriber Agreement
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision engages Regulation E, which governs electronic fund transfers, and card network rules around account updater services, which allow merchants to receive updated card credentials from issuers.
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This authorization means your subscription can continue to be charged even if your card expires or changes, without any action on your part, which reduces your practical ability to stop charges by simply letting a card expire.
Subscribers who want to stop charges by allowing a card to expire may find that Hulu has already obtained updated card credentials from their payment provider and continued billing, making deliberate non-renewal through card expiry an unreliable cancellation method.
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