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If you do not timely cancel your subscription, your subscription will be renewed at the full price as indicated when the purchase was made, without any additional action by you, and you authorize us to charge your payment method for these amounts.
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For Services with a fixed base charge, the charges are due at the beginning of each billing period.
"For paid subscriptions, we will automatically charge your payment method on each agreed-upon periodic renewal until you cancel.Excerpt from OpenAI's Terms of Use (ROW)
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The clause states: “For paid subscriptions, we will automatically charge your payment method on each agreed-upon periodic renewal until you cancel.”
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