15-U.S.C.-8403

§8403 – Negative Option Marketing On The Internet

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Title 15 > Chapter 110 > Section 8403

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• Reference: Section 8403
• Legend: §8403 – Negative Option Marketing On The Internet
• USCode Year: 2013

Provision Content

It shall be unlawful for any person to charge or attempt to charge any consumer for any goods or services sold in a transaction effected on the Internet through a negative option feature (as defined in the Federal Trade Commissions Telemarketing Sales Rule in part 310 of title 16, Code of Federal Regulations), unless the person—

(1) provides text that clearly and conspicuously discloses all material terms of the transaction before obtaining the consumers billing information;

(2) obtains a consumers express informed consent before charging the consumers credit card, debit card, bank account, or other financial account for products or services through such transaction; and

(3) provides simple mechanisms for a consumer to stop recurring charges from being placed on the consumers credit card, debit card, bank account, or other financial account.

(Pub. L. 111–345, §4, Dec. 29, 2010, 124 Stat. 3620.)

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