Charges & Financial Obligations · User right or choice
After a material adverse change you can terminate and get a pro rata refund of prepaid time
If Apple makes material adverse changes to the Service or this agreement, you have the right to terminate the agreement and your Service. In that case Apple will refund, on a pro rata basis, any amount you prepaid for your current paid term.
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In the event that Apple does make material adverse changes to the Service or this Agreement, you will have the right to terminate this Agreement and your Service, in which case Apple will provide you with a pro rata refund of any pre-payment for your then-current paid term.
Qualifications & exceptions
The right is triggered by material adverse changes, not by every change.
iCloud+ is a paid subscription for more storage and premium features, which vary by location
iCloud+ is a premium iCloud subscription that adds storage and certain premium features. Depending on what your location requires, you may get some or all of its features if you subscribe or if someone in your Family Sharing group subscribes and shares it with you.
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“iCloud+” is a premium iCloud Subscription that includes access to additional storage and certain premium features.
Depending on the requirements of your location, you can obtain some or all of the following iCloud+ features if you have an iCloud+ Subscription or someone in your Family Sharing group has an iCloud+ Subscription and shares it with you:
Qualifications & exceptions
Feature availability depends on the requirements of your location.
Charges & Financial Obligations · Company practice
iCloud+ renews and charges automatically, including family members' upgrades to the organizer
iCloud+ plans are sold as subscriptions. When you upgrade, Apple automatically charges the plan fee plus applicable taxes on a recurring basis to the payment method on your account, such as the one you use in the App Store, or to your Family Sharing organizer's payment method. If you are the Family Sharing organizer, you agree that Apple can charge you on a recurring basis for family members who upgrade their plans. Apple may also get preapproval for up to the transaction amount and email you billing reminders and other subscription messages.
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The iCloud+ Subscription plans are available for purchase on a subscription basis.
By you upgrading to the iCloud+ Subscription service for more storage and additional features, Apple will automatically charge on a recurring basis the fee for the plan you choose, including any applicable taxes and levies, to the payment method associated with your Account
If you are a Family Sharing organizer, you agree to have Apple charge your payment method on a recurring basis for members of your Family Sharing who upgrade their plan.
Apple may also obtain preapproval for an amount up to the amount of the transaction and contact you periodically by email to the email address associated with your Account for billing reminders and other subscription account-related communications.
Qualifications & exceptions
Organizer charges apply to Family Sharing members who upgrade their plan.
Not stated here
Plan prices are on an Apple support page that was not supplied.
Charges & Financial Obligations · User right or choice
You can upgrade or downgrade in Settings; upgrades bill immediately and downgrades start next billing date
You can change your iCloud+ plan by upgrading or downgrading in iCloud Settings on your device, System Preferences on a Mac, or iCloud for Windows. The fee for an upgraded plan takes effect immediately, while a downgrade takes effect on your next monthly or annual billing date.
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You can change your subscription by upgrading or downgrading your plan under the iCloud section of Settings on your device, or under the iCloud pane of System Preferences on your Mac or iCloud for Windows on your PC.
The applicable fee for an upgraded plan will take effect immediately; downgrades to your plan will take effect on the next annual or monthly billing date.
Charges & Financial Obligations · Restriction or exception
If Apple cannot charge you, it may restrict or delete your stored content or terminate your account
You are responsible for paying all fees on time and giving Apple valid card or payment account details. If Apple cannot successfully charge your payment method for fees due, Apple may revoke or restrict access to your stored Content, delete it, or terminate your account. To change your payment method you must update it online in iCloud Account Information, which may briefly interrupt access while Apple verifies it. Apple may email you about your account, for example when you reach or exceed your plan's storage limit.
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YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE TIMELY PAYMENT OF ALL FEES AND FOR PROVIDING APPLE WITH VALID CREDIT CARD OR PAYMENT ACCOUNT DETAILS FOR PAYMENT OF ALL FEES.
If Apple is unable to successfully charge your credit card or payment account for fees due, Apple reserves the right to revoke or restrict access to your stored Content, delete your stored Content, or terminate your Account.
this may temporarily disrupt your access to the Services while Apple verifies your new payment information.
We may contact you via email regarding your Account, for reasons including, without limitation, reaching or exceeding your storage limit of your selected plan.
Qualifications & exceptions
These consequences are permissive (Apple reserves the right) and are triggered by an unsuccessful charge for fees due.
Not stated here
This paragraph does not state a notice or cure period before deletion for non-payment; the termination section separately describes a 30-day cure for non-material breaches.
Cross-references
contrast (model-proposed): Apple may suspend or terminate your account without notice for listed reasons, with a 30-day cure for minor breaches — contrast: The payment section lets Apple restrict, delete Content or terminate when a charge fails, without stating notice, while the termination section lists unpaid fees as a cause and gives a 30-day notice and cure period for non-material breaches. Read together, how the cure period applies to failed payments is not spelled out.
Charges & Financial Obligations · Company practice
Apple may pass local taxes or levies on iCloud storage through to you
If you live in a country or region that taxes or imposes levies on iCloud storage, Apple may pass those costs on to you.
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If you reside in a country or region that subjects any iCloud storage to taxes and/or levies, we may pass through those costs to you.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies only where your country or region taxes or levies iCloud storage.
Charges & Financial Obligations · User right or choice
You can cancel a new iCloud+ subscription or annual renewal within 14 days without giving a reason
After first buying a subscription, or after an annual plan's renewal term begins, you can cancel by sending Apple a clear statement through Customer Support within 14 days of receiving your email confirmation. You do not need to give a reason, and your cancellation must be sent before the 14 days run out. Customers in the EU and Norway can also use the model cancellation form addressed to Apple Distribution International Ltd. in Cork, Ireland. As written, this section does not limit the 14-day right itself to a particular region.
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If you choose to cancel your subscription following its initial purchase or, if you are on an annual payment plan, following the commencement of any renewal term, you may do so by informing Apple with a clear statement (see applicable address details in section “General” below) within 14 days from when you received your e-mail confirmation by contacting Customer Support. You do not need to provide a reason for cancellation.
To meet the cancellation deadline, you must send your communication of cancellation before the 14-day period has expired.
Customers in the EU and Norway also have the right to inform us using the model cancellation form below:
To: Apple Distribution International Ltd., Hollyhill Industrial Estate, Hollyhill, Cork, Republic of Ireland:
Qualifications & exceptions
For annual plans, the window also opens at the start of each renewal term; for other plans the text refers only to the initial purchase.
The model form is described as available to customers in the EU and Norway.
Not stated here
The section points to address details in the 'General' section; whether local law changes this right outside the EU and Norway is not stated.
Charges & Financial Obligations · Company commitment
After a 14-day cancellation, storage drops to 5 GB and Apple refunds you within 14 days at no fee
If you cancel within the 14-day window, Apple reduces your storage back to 5 GB and reimburses you no later than 14 days after receiving your cancellation notice, using the same payment method and without charging a fee. If you used more than 5 GB in the meantime, you may be unable to make new iCloud backups or use certain features until you reduce your storage.
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We will reduce your storage back to 5GB and reimburse you no later than 14 days from the day on which we receive your cancellation notice.
If you have used more than 5GB of storage during this period, you may not be able to create any more iCloud backups or use certain features until you have reduced your storage.
We will use the same means of payment as you used for the transaction, and you will not incur any fees for such reimbursement.
Charges & Financial Obligations · Restriction or exception
Fees already paid are not refunded when you terminate, except where the agreement says otherwise
Fees you paid before terminating are nonrefundable, including fees paid in advance for the billing year in which you terminate, unless the agreement expressly allows otherwise. Elsewhere it does: the 14-day withdrawal right and the pro rata refunds after material adverse changes or Apple-initiated termination. Terminating your account does not cancel any fees or charges you already owe.
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Any fees paid by you prior to your termination are nonrefundable (except as expressly permitted otherwise by this Agreement), including any fees paid in advance for the billing year during which you terminate.
Termination of your Account shall not relieve you of any obligation to pay any accrued fees or charges.
Qualifications & exceptions
Subject to refunds the agreement expressly provides elsewhere.
Charges & Financial Obligations · Company commitment
Austria and Germany: price increases are notified, may need consent, and must track listed cost changes
For users in Austria and Germany, Apple will notify you if your subscription price rises and, where required, ask for your consent to continue. Apple may raise the price proportionately when listed costs rise, such as hosting, cloud and data center costs, labor and overhead, taxes and regulatory charges, currency movements, changes to the Service, legal compliance costs, transaction fees or other objectively verifiable cost increases, taking into account any offsetting decreases in other costs. Apple is not responsible for price increases on third-party app subscriptions.
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The following additional terms apply for the regions listed below:
(a) Austria; Germany
You will be notified if the price of your subscription increases and, if required, your consent will be required to continue.
or other objectively verifiable increases in the costs of providing the Service, we may increase the subscription price proportionately, taking into account any offsetting decrease to the other cost elements in providing the subscription.
Apple is not responsible for any price increases for third-party app subscriptions.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies only to the regions Austria and Germany.
Consent is required only where required ("if required").
Charges & Financial Obligations · Restriction or exception
Brazil: an Apple affiliate collects payments, card fees are added, and missing account details can end the account
For users in Brazil, notwithstanding other terms, Apple may use an affiliated company to collect and remit amounts you owe for your iCloud account. Your total price includes the upgrade price plus any applicable credit card fees. You are responsible for taxes that apply to you, except withholding taxes, which Apple's affiliate collects. You must provide all account information Apple requires for these transactions, and if you do not, Apple may terminate your account.
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(b) Brazil
for any charges made by Apple to you, Apple may use an affiliated company to perform activities of collection and remittances to charge any amounts owed by you in connection with your iCloud account.
In addition, your total price will include the price of the upgrade plus any applicable credit card fees.
You acknowledge and agree that if you do not provide all required account information, Apple shall have the right to terminate your account.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies only to the region Brazil and overrides contrary terms.
Charges & Financial Obligations · Company commitment
Korea: price increases are notified and may require your consent to continue
For users in Korea, Apple will notify you if your subscription price increases and, where required, you will need to consent to continue.
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(c) Korea
You will be notified if the price of your subscription increases and, if required, your consent will be required to continue.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies only to the region Korea; consent only where required.
Charges & Financial Obligations · Company commitment
Poland: 30 days' notice of price rises, renewal only with explicit consent, otherwise automatic cancellation
For users in Poland, Apple will notify you by email and device notification at least 30 days before your subscription price increases. The subscription renews only if you explicitly and directly consent to the new price, which takes effect on the date in the notice. If you do not consent, the subscription is automatically cancelled on the last day before the increase would take effect. Price increases may result from listed cost factors such as infrastructure, energy, labor, taxes, currency movements, Service changes, compliance costs, transaction fees, processing and data transfer costs, or other objectively verifiable cost increases.
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(d) Poland
You will be notified by email and notifications on your device at least 30 days in advance, if the price of your subscription is increasing. The subscription will be renewed only if You express an explicit and direct consent to the price change.
If you do not consent, your Subscription will be automatically cancelled on the last day before the price change would enter into effect.
or other objectively verifiable increases in the costs of providing the Service.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies only to the region Poland.
Charges & Financial Obligations · Company practice
Renewals are charged up to 24 hours before the new period, and failed charges are retried and still owed
Unless your subscription has been cancelled, you are charged no more than 24 hours before the start of the latest subscription period. If Apple cannot charge your payment method, for example because it expired or lacks funds, and you have not cancelled, you still owe the uncollected amount and Apple will try to charge again when you update your payment information. That can shift the start of your next period and your billing date. This paragraph appears under the Poland heading of the regional additional terms, with no separate regional label.
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Unless your subscription has been cancelled, you will be charged no more than twenty-four (24) hours prior to the start of the latest subscription period.
If we cannot charge your payment method for any reason (such as expiration or insufficient funds), and the subscription has not been cancelled, you remain responsible for any uncollected amounts, and we will attempt to charge the payment method as you may update your payment method information.
This may result in a change to the start of your next subscription period and may change the date on which you are billed for each period, as displayed on your receipt.
Qualifications & exceptions
Placed within the Poland additional terms; it applies to subscriptions that have not been cancelled.
Not stated here
The paragraph has no heading of its own; whether Apple intends it to apply beyond Poland is not stated.