In Re: Google, Inc. Cookie Placement Consumer Privacy Litigation

Your rights may be affected by a settlement in a class action lawsuit, In re Google Inc. Cookie Placement Consumer Privacy Litigation. It was filed by the Plaintiffs in United States District Court for the District of Delaware under Case No. 12-MD-2358 (ER).

The purpose of this website is to provide important information to people in the United States who may be Class Members. You may be a Class Member if in 2011-2012 you used a Safari or Internet Explorer web browser with the browser cookie settings set, by default or by choice, either to accept cookies only from “visited” sites or to block cookies from “third parties and advertisers,” and you visited a non-Google website that displayed ads from doubleclick.net (Google’s advertising serving service), and a cookie from doubleclick.net was placed on your browser as a result of that visit.

This website is also to inform you that: (1) a settlement of the Class Action (the “Settlement”) with Google has been preliminarily approved by the Court; and (2) a hearing will be scheduled at a date, time, and location to be determined after September 9, 2022, by the Honorable Eduardo C. Robreno, Senior Judge of the United States District Court, sitting by designation in the District of Delaware, located at J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building, 844 N. King Street, Wilmington, DE 19801. The hearing is to consider the fairness and adequacy of the Settlement. Please check back on this site for date and time details regarding the hearing after September 9, 2022.

This Settlement, if finally approved, will decide the litigation with respect to the Defendant (“Google”) only and will be subject to any appeals.

This Settlement was originally announced in 2016, and you may have previously received a notice of this settlement at that time. The Court conducted preliminary and final approval hearings in 2016 and 2017, in which the Court approved Class Counsel’s request for attorneys’ fees and expenses, and the incentive awards for the Representative Plaintiffs, which remain the same. However, at the direction of the Court, a second notice and opt-out period are now being provided to Class Members because the Court has conducted additional hearings and approved a revised process for selecting the institutions that will receive settlement funds, as explained in the Frequently Asked Questions page of this website.

IF YOU ARE A MEMBER OF THIS GROUP, YOU SHOULD READ THE NOTICE CAREFULLY. IT MAY AFFECT YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS.