Greetings Lisa W, on our service we offer our new customers with a trial subscription so they can try out the different tools and benefits that we have available on our service. This trial subscription has an initial charge of $1.95 USD. This will grant you premium access to our service for 14 days so you can explore the site. Before the subscription is purchased we provide the information that the account is auto-renewing. This information is provided on the initial subscription page, check out page and an email is sent containing all the information about the transaction and the date it is going to auto-renew to our monthly subscription of $39.80 USD. Feel free to contact us if you need further assistance on any of the concerns that you may have regarding your account.