Your Spotify Premium subscription automatically renews and charges your payment method every billing period until you cancel. If you cancel mid-period, you keep access until the end of that period but get no refund for unused days.
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The auto-renewal mechanism creates an ongoing billing obligation that persists until affirmatively cancelled by the user, and the no-refund provision establishes that subscription fees are non-recoverable once a billing period has commenced. This structure allocates the burden of service discontinuation to user action rather than default termination.
If you are charged for a new billing period and then cancel, you will not receive a refund for the unused portion of that period — even if you cancel the same day you are billed. This financial exposure is compounded by Spotify's right to change prices with notice, where silence constitutes acceptance.
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"Unless otherwise indicated (for example, if you have signed up for a Prepaid Period), Paid Subscriptions continue indefinitely until cancelled. You will be billed on a recurring basis on the first day of each billing period and you will pay and you authorise us (or the applicable third party, if you sign up through a third party) to charge your payment method the then-current subscription fee. Unless otherwise indicated, cancellation will take effect from the end of the billing period in which you cancel and you will be downgraded to the free version of the Spotify Service. Unless otherwise required by law, we do not provide refunds or credits for any partial subscription periods, except as expressly stated in these Terms.— Excerpt from Spotify's Spotify Terms and Conditions
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: This provision directly engages the FTC's Negative Option Rule (16 CFR Part 425, updated 2023) requiring clear and conspicuous disclosure of auto-renewal terms, simple cancellation mechanisms, and advance notice before recurring charges; the California Automatic Renewal Law (Bus. & Prof. Code §17601–17606) requiring explicit affirmative consent before charging under auto-renewal terms; and New York's Automatic Renewal Law (General Obligations Law §5-903). The FTC is the primary federal enforcement authority; state consumer protection divisions enforce state-level statutes.
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The auto-renewal mechanism creates an ongoing billing obligation that persists until affirmatively cancelled by the user, and the no-refund provision establishes that subscription fees are non-recoverable once a billing period has commenced. This structure allocates the burden of service discontinuation to user action rather than default termination.
If you are charged for a new billing period and then cancel, you will not receive a refund for the unused portion of that period — even if you cancel the same day you are billed. This financial exposure is compounded by Spotify's right to change prices with notice, where silence constitutes acceptance.
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