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| 1 | AN ACT concerning business.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business | ||||||
| 5 | Practices Act is amended by changing and renumbering Section | ||||||
| 6 | 2AAA, as added by Public Act 95-765, as follows: | ||||||
| 7 | (815 ILCS 505/2CCC) | ||||||
| 8 | Sec. 2CCC
2AAA. Internet game gaming service provider; | ||||||
| 9 | cancellation. | ||||||
| 10 | (a) As used in this Section: | ||||||
| 11 | "Internet game gaming service provider" means a person | ||||||
| 12 | who provides a web site that includes information, | ||||||
| 13 | software, data, text, photographs, graphics, sound, or | ||||||
| 14 | video that may be accessed by a consumer on a paid | ||||||
| 15 | subscription basis for a fee for the purpose of the | ||||||
| 16 | consumer playing a single player or multiplayer game | ||||||
| 17 | through the Internet or that may be downloaded for the | ||||||
| 18 | consumer to play on his or her computer outside of the | ||||||
| 19 | Internet. "Internet game gaming service provider" does not | ||||||
| 20 | include online gambling or other gaming where a consumer | ||||||
| 21 | can enter to win money. | ||||||
| 22 | (b) This Section applies only to agreements under which an | ||||||
| 23 | Internet game gaming service provider provides service to | ||||||
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| 1 | consumers, for home and personal use, for a stated term that is | ||||||
| 2 | automatically renewed for another term unless the consumer | ||||||
| 3 | cancels the service. | ||||||
| 4 | (c) An Internet game gaming service provider must give a | ||||||
| 5 | consumer who is an Illinois resident a disclosure of the | ||||||
| 6 | methods the consumer may use to cancel the service. One of the | ||||||
| 7 | methods of cancellation must provide for online cancellation of | ||||||
| 8 | the service via email, chat, instant messaging, web-based | ||||||
| 9 | forms, or any other means of communicating information over a | ||||||
| 10 | computer network the following: (1) a secure method at the | ||||||
| 11 | Internet gaming service provider's web site that the consumer | ||||||
| 12 | may use to cancel the service, which method shall not require | ||||||
| 13 | the consumer to make a telephone call or send U.S. Postal | ||||||
| 14 | Service mail to effectuate the cancellation; and (2) | ||||||
| 15 | instructions that the consumer may follow to cancel the service | ||||||
| 16 | at the Internet gaming service provider's web site. | ||||||
| 17 | (d) This Section does not apply to any entity that merely | ||||||
| 18 | provides the host platform on the web site to the Internet game | ||||||
| 19 | gaming service provider. | ||||||
| 20 | (e) A person who violates this Section commits an unlawful | ||||||
| 21 | practice within the meaning of this Act.
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| 22 | (Source: P.A. 95-765, eff. 1-1-09; revised 9-25-08.)
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| 23 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 24 | becoming law.
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