Can confirm, this happened to me a few years ago. Thankfully I realized it minutes after it renewed itself and managed to get a refund, but the customer service was adamant that I did not turn off auto-renew. I did. I specifically double-checked a week before my plan was supposed to expire–I always have subscription expiration dates on my calendar bc of shit like this. Deleted my account as soon as I got my money back. Fuck NordVPN.

Holy shit, thank you! I use Forkgram on my phone and it has a setting to disable it, but on desktop I couldn’t find a way to do it until I saw your comment. Thanks!

https://pass.pears.com/privacy/

According to their privacy policy, they collect data like IP address and URL data.

When we say that we think we can process your Personal Information, it is because we considered we have a legitimate interest (for ourselves or of a third party) to do so; it is in the interest of our organization to conduct and manage our business; this includes conducting analytics to improve and optimize the Site and the services, protecting our interests and enforcing agreements with others, as well as complying with industry self-regulatory requirements. We might have legitimate interest to process Personal Information in other contexts.

Also:

As necessary, we will share your Personal Information with:
[…]
3.5. With authorities and law enforcement agencies worldwide either when ordered to do so or on a voluntary basis if this appears reasonable and necessary to us.

and

[…] Because of those retention requirements, we might not be able to honor erasure requests.