Netflix automatically charges you every billing cycle unless you cancel before your billing date. There is no manual renewal required — the subscription renews itself.
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The clause establishes the operational mechanism for continuous billing by conditioning service continuation on affirmative cancellation rather than affirmative renewal. This structure allocates the burden of action to the user to prevent charges, which is a standard practice in subscription service agreements.
Subscribers who forget to cancel before their billing date will be charged the full subscription fee for the next period, with no right to a prorated refund for unused days under Section 3.4.
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"Your Netflix membership will continue until terminated. To use the Netflix service you must have Internet access and a Netflix ready device, and provide us with one or more Payment Methods. "Payment Method" means a current, valid, accepted method of payment, as may be updated from time to time, and which may include payment through your account with a third party. Unless you cancel your membership before your billing date, you authorize us to charge the subscription fee for the next billing cycle to your Payment Method.— Excerpt from Netflix's Netflix Account and Content Policies
(1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: This provision implicates the FTC's Negative Option Rule (16 CFR Part 425) and the FTC's 2023 updated Negative Option Marketing Rule, which requires clear disclosure of auto-renewal terms and simple cancellation mechanisms. In APAC, it engages Singapore's Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act (Cap. 52A), Australia's Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Schedule 2, Australian Consumer Law s. 18), and equivalent unfair contract terms legislation across APAC jurisdictions. The FTC and national consumer protection commissions hold primary enforcement authority. (2)
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The clause establishes the operational mechanism for continuous billing by conditioning service continuation on affirmative cancellation rather than affirmative renewal. This structure allocates the burden of action to the user to prevent charges, which is a standard practice in subscription service agreements.
Subscribers who forget to cancel before their billing date will be charged the full subscription fee for the next period, with no right to a prorated refund for unused days under Section 3.4.
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