Petition · Department for Business and Trade
Make subscription auto-renewal without clear renewal consent illegal.
Open for signatures
86 signatures
What the petition asks
Many people sign up to services that renew automatically without a clear reminder or fresh consent. People forget, their circumstances change, and they are then tied into another term and charged again when they may no longer want or use the service.
Subscriptions should have a maximum initial sign-up period of 3 months, followed by no more than 1 month’s notice to cancel. This would stop businesses locking people into long terms through automatic renewals, confusing conditions, and excessive small print that most ordinary customers cannot reasonably be expected to interpret.
Timeline
| 8 May 2026 | Petition opened for signatures |
Key facts
Signatures
86
Status
Open for signatures
Department
Department for Business and Trade
Opened
8 May 2026
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 26 Jul 2026.