A Settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit between SwipeClock (“Defendant” or “SwipeClock”) and certain individuals who scanned their finger, hand, and/or any other Biometric Identifier on a SwipeClock-branded timekeeping device.

The lawsuit alleges that SwipeClock violated an Illinois law called the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) when it allegedly collected individuals’ biometric data when they used a SwipeClock-branded timekeeping device without complying with the law’s requirements. The case is Francois v. SwipeClock, LLC, Case No. 2022-CH-01041, currently pending in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, County Department, Chancery Division. The proposed Settlement is not an admission of wrongdoing by SwipeClock, and SwipeClock denies that it violated the law. The Court has not decided who is right or wrong. Rather, the Parties desire to settle this lawsuit in order to avoid the burden, time, expense, uncertainty, and distraction of continued litigation. The Settlement has been preliminarily approved by a court in Chicago, Illinois..

You are included in the Settlement if you scanned your biometric data on a SwipeClock-branded timekeeping device within the state of Illinois. Any individual who scanned their biometric data on a SwipeClock-branded timekeeping device in the state of Illinois between February 7, 2017, and March 14, 2025, may be eligible to receive cash benefits from this Settlement. This website is provided as a service to eligible settlement class members. The information provided is in summary form and is not intended as a complete explanation of your rights. For full and complete information, you are directed to review carefully the Notice.

If the Court approves the Settlement, members of the Class who did not receive direct notice of this Settlement through either U.S. mail or e-mail, must submit valid claim forms to be eligible to receive an equal, or pro rata, share of a $1,630,000.00 Settlement Fund. Each individual who must submit a valid claim form will receive a portion of this fund, after all notice and administration costs, the service award, and attorneys’ fees—if approved by the Court—have been paid.