ah swiftcover....i cant stand em! whats with the chickens:

WTF?
also get a quote in under 60 seconds? yeah thats fine cos they dont ask all the info and assume the rest so when you go and take the policy you have to give the rest of the info and find out the price has changed....
breathe...rant over

Auto renewing is actually quite common practice now, its not something i personally like but we do it on some policies at hic....swings and roundabouts i suppose - saves you driving round uninsured if you forget...

But yeah len, they should really tell you, the way we do it is send out the invite and price etc and say it will be auto renewed unless we hear otherwise.