Subscription & Refund Policy

1. Scope

This policy explains how paid features and subscriptions work on Rumors where we offer them, and how billing, cancellation and refunds are handled. It supplements our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

Rumors does not currently act as a payment processor and does not receive or store your full payment-card information. Where Rumors offers paid features or subscriptions in the iOS or Android app, the Apple App Store or Google Play bills and processes the purchase.

2. Paid Features and Subscriptions

Paid features and subscriptions, where offered, are optional digital features sold through the Apple App Store or Google Play. Before you buy, the store or the in-app purchase screen shows you what the feature includes, its price and its billing period.

Rumors does not currently run a direct card checkout, a web checkout of its own, or any other payment processing that it controls.

3. App Store Billing

When you buy through the iOS or Android app:

• the Apple App Store or Google Play processes the transaction and controls the payment method you choose;
• Rumors does not receive or store your full payment-card number;
• the store shows you the price, billing period and other material terms before you complete the purchase.

4. Auto-Renewal

An auto-renewable subscription, where offered, renews automatically at the end of each billing period unless you cancel the renewal under the app store’s subscription terms before the renewal is processed. Renewal charges go through your Apple or Google store account. The exact renewal timing and billing mechanics follow the app store’s rules and the terms shown to you at purchase.

If we make a free trial or introductory offer available, we will tell you its terms before you enroll, including who is eligible and how it turns into a paid subscription. The app store may decide eligibility.

5. Managing and Canceling a Subscription

You can manage or cancel the future renewal of an auto-renewable subscription through the app store, under that store’s rules.

Apple. Use Apple’s subscription settings or another cancellation method Apple provides.

Google Play. Use Google Play’s subscription settings or another cancellation method Google provides.

Canceling normally stops future renewal charges. Depending on the store’s rules and the law, you may keep access until the end of the period you have already paid for.

6. Account Deletion

You can delete your Rumors account at any time, including while a subscription is active, and you do not have to cancel the subscription first. Deleting your account does not cancel a subscription managed by the Apple App Store or Google Play, and neither does deleting the app from your device. If you have an active store subscription, cancel or manage it directly with Apple or Google to avoid future renewal charges. See our Delete Account page and Terms of Service for more.

7. Refunds

Whether you can get a refund depends on the app store, the type of transaction, its timing, your country or region, and consumer-protection law.

Apple. For purchases processed by Apple, you usually request a refund through Apple’s purchase or refund process. Apple decides eligibility for store-issued refunds under its own rules and the law; Rumors cannot reverse an Apple transaction directly.

Google Play. For purchases through Google Play, refund requests and eligibility may be handled by Google Play, by Rumors as the developer through the tools available to it, or both, depending on the transaction, its timing, the policies that apply and the law.

Canceling a subscription is not the same as getting a refund. Canceling stops future renewals; whether amounts already charged can be refunded is decided separately, under the rules above. Mandatory statutory refund and consumer rights that cannot legally be waived are not affected.

8. Trials and Promotional Offers

Rumors does not currently offer a free trial or introductory offer. If we introduce one, we will disclose its terms before you enroll, as described in Section 4.

9. Price Changes

Prices for paid features or subscriptions may change from time to time, following Apple’s or Google’s process, any required notice and the law. Where a store or the law requires your consent to a price change, that consent process applies.

10. Failed Payments and Entitlements

Apple and Google may handle failed payments, billing retries and grace periods in their own systems. If the app store stops reporting a valid entitlement for your account, Rumors may restrict the paid feature linked to it.

11. Restoring Purchases

Eligible store-managed purchases and subscription entitlements may be restored or synced through Apple’s or Google’s purchase tools.

12. Consumer Rights

Nothing in this policy limits consumer rights that the law does not allow to be waived.

13. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time, including when we add or change paid features. Material changes will be reflected in the “Last updated” date on this page. If a change materially affects your subscription, cancellation or refund rights, we will give additional notice or ask for your consent where the law requires it.

14. Contact Us

Questions about subscriptions or this policy can be sent to support@rumors.app.