16 Oct, 2024 ‘Click to Cancel’ is Here, as FTC Announces Final Negative Option Rule By Kate Patton Terri Seligman The Federal Trade Commission today (finally) announced its final “click-to-cancel” rule, which imposes new requirements on negative...
26 Sep, 2024 California Amends Its Auto-Renewal Law, Effective July 1, 2025 By Kate Patton State auto-renewal law updates continue to keep us busy—and this week is no exception. On Tuesday, California, whose statute has...
05 May, 2024 State Auto-Renewal Law Update: Utah Enacts, Virginia Amends, and California Proposes Major Amendments By Kate Patton The negative option space has been quite active at the state level recently, with new laws enacted and existing laws updated — and the...
03 Dec, 2023 Massachusetts AG Proposes Rule on "Junk Fees" and Auto-Renew Offers By Jeff Greenbaum Last week, the Massachusetts Attorney General announced that her office is proposing new rules that would prohibit so-called “junk fees"...
26 Jan, 2023 When does the FTC step in over a free trial that automatically converts to a ongoing subscription? By Terri Seligman When it gets 70,000+ complaints. Back in 2016, the FTC settled with beauty product and nutritional supplement marketer, NutriClick....
06 Apr, 2022 More State Auto-Renew Laws Enacted or Amended By Terri Seligman As followers of this blog know, the auto-renew space has been exceedingly active over the last few years: enforcement actions and...
19 Nov, 2021 New York Attorney General Warns Consumers About Deceptive Auto-Renew Programs By Terri Seligman The New York Attorney General recently issued a Consumer Alert, warning consumers about deceptive negative option programs and urging...
06 Oct, 2021 Strict to Stricter: California Updates Auto-Renew Law Again By Terri Seligman California already has one of the strictest and most detailed auto-renew laws in the country, providing the model for other states, like...
05 Apr, 2021 The Gift That Keeps On Giving, Even When You Don't Want It To By Terri Seligman It was reported in today’s news that online donors to former President Trump’s campaign “unwittingly” donated on a weekly basis when they...
15 Feb, 2021 Complying with State Auto-Renewal Laws? By Terri Seligman Two new decisions from the Southern District of California remind us, once again, that automatic renewal programs are not only a frequent...
04 Sep, 2020 The “Roach Motel”: An Inescapable Auto-Renew Plan By Terri Seligman In his impassioned separate statement accompanying the FTC Stipulated Order in a recent case, Commissioner Chopra decried the use of...
18 Feb, 2020 Auto-Renew: NAD Weighs In Too By Terri Seligman As readers of this blog know, regulation and enforcement of auto-renew programs is a regular topic. That’s because the FTC has been busy...
07 Sep, 2019 Again With The Not-So-Free Free Trials? FTC Gets Injunction By Terri Seligman As alleged by the FTC, the defendants operated an online subscription scam, involving eight different product lines, primarily personal...
30 May, 2019 Another State Enacts Auto-Renew Law By Terri Seligman North Dakota is the latest to join the ever-increasing list of states regulating auto-renew programs. Its new law applies to contracts...
21 Feb, 2019 California Prosecutors Get Tough On Auto-Renewal Programs By Terri Seligman Guthy-Renker LLC, one of the world’s largest direct marketing companies, and distributor of Proactiv and Wen products, has agreed to...
28 Nov, 2018 FTC's ROSCA Enforcement Continues By Terri Seligman The FTC has just announced that, in response to its motion, a district court in California has issued an order temporarily halting an...