How Do You Cancel Christian Mingle?

Yes, you can cancel your online dating Premium, and where you do it depends on where you paid. If you bought Premium on the Christian Mingle website, you cancel in your account settings there. If you bought it through the iOS or Android app, you cancel in your Apple or Google Play account. Canceling stops future renewals, but it does not refund the term you already paid for.

Christian Mingle's steps are in the account area:

1. Go to My Profile.
2. Open Account Settings.
3. Choose Subscription, then Manage Subscription.
4. Select your active subscription.
5. Select Cancel Subscription.
6. Choose a reason and select Confirm Cancellation.

You should then see a confirmation on the screen and get a confirmation email. Keep that email. It is your proof that you canceled, and it settles any argument about a later charge.

A subscription bought through the iOS or Android app is not controlled by Christian Mingle. You must cancel in the Apple or Google Play account where you bought it.

You do not need the app installed to do that. Open your phone's subscription list, find Christian Mingle, and cancel from there. Deleting the app does nothing to the billing, so do not count on it.

If you are not sure where you paid, check the website first, and then your Apple or Google subscription list. One of the two will show the plan.

Premium stays active until the end of the current billing period. After that, the account goes back to a Basic membership.

So you do not need to rush to use up the time, and you do not lose what you already paid for. It also means you can cancel the day you decide, even if you want to keep messaging for a couple more weeks. That is the safest way, because it takes the renewal date out of your hands.

Christian Mingle says all purchases are final and non-refundable, including automatic renewals. Canceling stops future renewals. It does not refund the current term.

Plan around that. The cheapest time to cancel is before a renewal, not after one. Put a reminder on your calendar a few days before your plan renews, and cancel then if you are not getting what you wanted from the site.

A blocked account changes the steps. If an account is blocked, a subscription bought on the website is canceled automatically. Subscriptions bought through Apple and Google are not, and you must cancel those in the store yourself.

This catches men who have a blocked account and assume everything stopped. If you paid through your phone, check the store, because the charge can keep coming.

Before you cancel, ask what the site gave you. Count the women you wrote to, the replies you got, and the conversations that reached a phone call or a coffee.

If the numbers are low, the site may not be the problem. A page with one blurry photo, or an opening line like "hey," loses women at any price. Those two fixes cost nothing and usually matter more than which site you use.

If you do leave, do not stop meeting people. Faith-based groups, volunteer teams and church events give you repeated time with the same women. a dating coach has talked about building small social circles around what you already enjoy, and it works whether or not an app is involved.

• Work out where you paid: website, Apple or Google
• Website: My Profile, Account Settings, Subscription, Manage Subscription
• App purchase: cancel in your Apple or Google account
• Keep the confirmation email
• Expect Premium to run to the end of the billing period
• Remember a cancel stops renewals but does not refund the current term