www.curiosom.com/news/0111 January 11 - Official announcement regarding Curiosom.com's change of payment processors - what it means for our subscribers Since its inception nearly 15 years ago, Curiosom.com has grown to become the premier venue for photographers to share their pictures with the entire global community. When we started offering paid subscriptions for unlimited photo uploading privileges, our management chose the Brainard-Plus payment processing service to handle our billing for subscriptions. -[1]-. We based our decision primarily upon Brainard-Plus's ability to automatically renew our 1-year and 2-year subscription plans. However, when we became a subsidiary of Panamat.com last June, we began the process of switching to their payment processing firm, Digitexx-D, in order to unify our billing systems. -[2]-. Unfortunately, we have been notified by Digitexx-D that they cannot renew any Curiosom.com subscriptions that originated on our prior payment processor. This affects all Curiosom.com members who began their subscription on or before June 30 of last year. To get around this problem, we are encouraging these members to take advantage of a 20% discount on early subscription renewals. -[3]-. If you do so, your subscription will continue uninterrupted until its end date and can be renewed automatically. If you take no action, you will have to update your subscriber profile and billing information at the end of your current subscription. -[4]-. We therefore urge all of our affected subscribers to renew early. | 
