Your subscription cancellation rights in Georgia
Georgia’s service-contract law requires renewal notice 30–60 days ahead — and renewals beyond two years need your active yes. What it covers, what it misses, what to do.
The short answer
Georgia regulates automatic renewal of service contracts — not every subscription. For covered contracts of twelve months or more, the seller must warn you 30 to 60 days before the cancellation deadline, and for renewals stretching past two years the renewal is unenforceable without your acknowledged, affirmative yes. The typical monthly digital subscription sits outside the statute, which makes your own renewal tracking the protection that actually covers everything.
Leutrim Miftaraj
Founder, SubTracker · Updated September 9, 2026
What the statute says
Georgia regulates automatic renewal of service contracts in O.C.G.A. Title 13, Chapter 12: for contracts of twelve months or more renewing for more than a month, the seller must send written or electronic notice 30 to 60 days before the cancellation deadline, and for renewals exceeding twenty-four months the renewal is unenforceable unless the seller also obtains the consumer’s acknowledgment of that notice and an affirmative response that the consumer does not intend to terminate.
The structure will look familiar if you have read our Florida guide: a service-contract law with thresholds, built for the alarm-monitoring plan and the pest-control agreement rather than the streaming stack. The definition requires a renewal of more than one month that keeps the contract alive more than six months after it began.
Georgia’s distinctive rule: the two-year consent gate
Where Georgia goes beyond its neighbours is subsection (b): if a service contract renews for more than twenty-four months, the notice alone is not enough. The seller must obtain your written or electronic acknowledgment of the notice AND an affirmative response that you do not intend to terminate — otherwise the renewal provision is unenforceable. A multi-year lock-in you never actively confirmed is, in Georgia, a lock-in you can challenge.
The gap: monthly digital subscriptions
As in Florida, the month-to-month streaming or app plan renews one month at a time and falls outside the statutory definition. For those, your protections are federal ROSCA, the contract, and your records — the position described on our federal guide.
The order to work in
1. Classify the contract. Twelve months or more, renewing more than a month? The notice machinery applies. Renewing past two years? The consent gate applies on top.
2. Look for the notice. For covered contracts, search your inbox for the 30–60-day warning. Missing or late, say so in writing when you dispute the renewal.
3. For multi-year renewals, ask for the acknowledgment. If the seller cannot show your affirmative response, cite subsection (b) and treat the renewal provision as unenforceable — in writing.
4. Escalate with the record. The Georgia Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Division takes complaints; dates and documents decide them.
This page gives general information, not legal advice. Statutes are summarised; the wording that binds is the current text of the law itself. For a contested case, a consumer-protection office or a licensed attorney in your state is the right address.
Source: O.C.G.A. § 13-12-3, Georgia Code, checked September 9, 2026. · How we verify legal content
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Start freeFrequently asked questions
Does Georgia have an automatic renewal law?+
Yes, for service contracts: O.C.G.A. Title 13, Chapter 12. Contracts of twelve months or more that renew for more than a month require written or electronic notice 30 to 60 days before the cancellation deadline, and renewals exceeding twenty-four months additionally require your acknowledged, affirmative consent to be enforceable.
Does the Georgia law cover my streaming subscription?+
Usually not — month-to-month renewals fall outside the statutory definition, which requires a renewal period of more than one month. For monthly digital subscriptions your protections are federal ROSCA, the contract terms, and your own records.
What is special about renewals longer than two years in Georgia?+
They are unenforceable unless the seller obtained both your acknowledgment of the renewal notice and an affirmative response that you do not intend to terminate. If a multi-year renewal happened without that, put the objection in writing and cite O.C.G.A. § 13-12-3(b).
Where do I complain about a subscription company in Georgia?+
The Georgia Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Division accepts complaints, and the FTC covers the federal layer. Complaints supported by the contract, the missing or late notice, and written cancellation records carry the weight.
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