"Click to Cancel"

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By now, you have probably heard about the Federal Trade Commission’s new “click to cancel” rule, which requires sellers to provide a simple mechanism to cancel a negative-option feature (essentially any recurring or automatically renewing subscription). If you haven’t, you can check out our previous post here. But “click to cancel” is just one facet of the FTC’s broader “Rule Concerning Subscriptions and Other Negative Options.” There are three other aspects to the new negative-option rule. 

Continue Reading Beyond “Click to Cancel:” What Else Is Included in the FTC’s New Negative-Option Rule

On Oct. 16, the Federal Trade Commission announced its final “click to cancel” rule. The rule is part of the FTC’s broader “Rule Concerning Subscriptions and Other Negative Options.” Notably, the click-to-cancel provision is not as straightforward as its moniker suggests. Here are four questions delving deeper into that portion of the rule. We will follow up with a separate post that looks at other aspects of the new rule.

Continue Reading Not as Simple as Clicking Your Mouse: A Look at the FTC’s “Click to Cancel” Rule