“when you purchase the Services on a subscription basis...you agree that you are authorizing recurring payments, and payments will be made to Microsoft by the method and at the recurring intervals you have agreed to, until the subscription...is terminated”
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Authorizing recurring payments means charges will continue automatically at the agreed intervals without further action by the user, until termination occurs.
The reader who purchases a subscription is automatically committed to ongoing recurring payments until the subscription is terminated.
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"when you purchase the Services on a subscription basis...you agree that you are authorizing recurring payments, and payments will be made to Microsoft by the method and at the recurring intervals you have agreed to, until the subscription...is terminatedExcerpt from Microsoft Copilot's Terms of Service
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Authorizing recurring payments means charges will continue automatically at the agreed intervals without further action by the user, until termination occurs.
The reader who purchases a subscription is automatically committed to ongoing recurring payments until the subscription is terminated.
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