Account & Service Control · Permission or license
If no card on file can be charged, Amazon may suspend your account or deregister devices
If Amazon cannot charge a payment to any payment method on file in your Amazon.com account, it reserves the right to pursue any remedy available to it. Named remedies include suspending or terminating your Amazon.com account and, for Amazon devices bought with Monthly Payments, deregistering the device, which blocks your ability to access Amazon content and services from that device.
Details
- Who
- Amazon
- Condition
- Amazon is not able to charge any payment to a payment method on file
- What it does
- suspend or terminate your Amazon.com account; deregister an Amazon device bought with Monthly Payments
Supporting quotations
If we are not able to charge any payment to a payment method on file in your Amazon.com
account we reserve the right to pursue any remedy that is available to us, including the right to suspend or terminate your Amazon.com account and, for Amazon devices purchased using Monthly Payments, the right to deregister your Amazon device, which will block your ability to access Amazon content and services from your device.
Qualifications & exceptions
- Account suspension or termination can apply to your whole Amazon.com account, not only the plan.
- Device deregistration is limited to Amazon devices purchased using Monthly Payments.
- "Any remedy that is available" is open-ended; the named remedies are examples.
- You agree Amazon and its affiliates have no liability related to exercising these remedies.
Not stated here
- The source does not give a grace period, notice step or number of failed attempts before these remedies apply.
Cross-references
- qualified by (model-proposed): Amazon charges each payment automatically and will use another payment method on file if needed — Amazon first uses another payment method on record when the selected one is unavailable; the remedies apply when no payment method on file can be charged.
- qualified by (model-proposed): You agree Amazon has no liability for using these non-payment remedies — The non-payment remedies (account suspension or termination, device deregistration) come with your agreement that Amazon and its affiliates have no liability related to exercising them.