In case of subscription still active on March 27, it "will be automatically terminated" and the subscriber will no longer be charged, it is specified on the site of Salto.

Refunds will be made in proportion to the number of days remaining in the current month, or in the current year for the annual offer.

In addition, Salto will continue to process the personal data of its subscribers until April 27, when it will delete them. "Only accounting data will be kept", including "the invoices of former subscribers of the platform" integrating their e-mail.

They will be for "10 years from the date of establishment of the invoice (...) in the form of an encrypted archive with the liquidator of the company", to guarantee their security.

The closure of the platform, presented for a time as a "French Netflix", was announced in mid-February by its shareholders.

In mid-January, Salto employed 42 people on permanent contracts and 8 on fixed-term contracts. The subscription cost 7.99 euros per month (or 5.80 euros monthly for a subscription taken over a year).

Its future had been compromised for months and especially since the failure at the end of September of the merger between TF1 and M6, to which France Télévisions had to sell its share to complete its budget.

"This project stopped, the shareholders of Salto judged that the conditions were not met for the continuation of Salto in its current shareholding," had justified France Televisions, M6 and TF1 in a joint statement.

The shareholders had also pointed to "the complex and constrained governance of this alliance and (the) refusal of most Internet service provider operators to distribute the platform like the American platforms".

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