Automatic renewal law in Delaware

Each point below comes from the text on Delaware's official legislature or code site, read on the review date. The full text has definitions and exceptions, so open it before you rely on one point.

The key phrases, copied from the official text:

• “A consumer who enters into a contract online shall be permitted to cancel the contract online.” (6 Del. C. § 2732(4))
• “fails to provide a cost-effective, timely, and easy to use mechanism for cancellation” (6 Del. C. § 2732(4))
• “shall notify the consumer of each upcoming extension of the contract no less than 30 days and no more than 60 days before the cancellation deadline under the automatic renewal provision” (6 Del. C. § 2734(b))
• “If the consumer entered into the contract online, the seller must provide an online procedure for a consumer to cancel the contract.” (6 Del. C. § 2734(b)(3))

To find the cancellation route and mailing address of the business you are leaving, start with Streaming services, News and magazine subscriptions, Gym memberships and Spotify.

1. 1

   Start with how you joined

   Write down the date you signed up, how you did it and when the next charge is due. Those three facts decide which rule above applies to you.

2. 2

   Cancel the way the law allows

   The seller must give you a cost-effective, timely and easy-to-use way to cancel any automatically renewing contract. If you entered the contract online, you must be allowed to cancel online. Keep whatever confirmation the business gives you.

3. 3

   Send a written notice you can prove

   Send a written notice that cites 6 Del. C. §§ 2731-2737, your account details and the end date you want. Our cancellation letter template has the layout.

4. 4

   When a charge still goes through

   Contact the business with your dated proof first, then your card issuer. The steps are in when a company keeps charging after you cancel.

Online cancellation is the quickest route where the law requires it. A mailed letter with a delivery record proves the date your notice arrived, and it is the route of last resort when an online or phone cancellation fails.

Certified mail for cancellations explains what each delivery record proves.

The federal Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act requires online sellers using automatic renewals to provide simple mechanisms to stop recurring charges. The FTC's 2024 click-to-cancel amendments are not in force: on July 8, 2025 the Eighth Circuit vacated them (Custom Communications, Inc. v. FTC, No. 24-3137), on February 12, 2026, in a rule effective that day, the FTC recodified its Negative Option Rule "as it existed before the effective date" of the 2024 amendments (91 FR 6507), and on March 13, 2026 it asked for public comment on "the need for amendments" (91 FR 12318). Our state-by-state overview and the FTC click-to-cancel guide have the details.