Disclaimer

This page says, without fine print, what Settlement Notices is and what it is not. It is the full version of the site's disclaimer; the rest of the conditions are in the terms of use.

1. What you can expect from this site

Settlement Notices explains how to check a class action settlement notice against the official record, what the usual options and deadlines mean, and what official sources say about the settlement administrators and the settlements it covers. Every fact is read in an official source and is shown with that source and the date it was checked. How that works is described in How we check.

Even so, deadlines are extended, courts issue new orders, settlement websites change, and every notice and every case has details that no general page can cover. Read everything here with the limits that follow in mind.

2. This is not legal advice

This is the most important section on this page. Read all of it.

The content of settlementnotices.com is general information. It is not legal, tax or financial advice, it is not a substitute for the advice of an attorney, and it cannot replace advice about your own situation.

The person who writes and maintains this site is not a lawyer. He is not admitted to practice law in any state or territory of the United States, is not a member of any bar association, and holds no United States legal qualification. He writes from outside the United States. There is no firm, no legal department and no licensed professional behind this site reviewing its content. That is stated here, in About and in Contact, and it is the reason the site shows the official source of every fact instead of invoking an authority it does not have.

2.1. There is no professional relationship

Reading this site, using its tools and exchanging email with the contact address create no attorney-client relationship, no retainer, no professional engagement and no duty of confidentiality between you and the operator. Nothing published here, and nothing said in reply to an email, is a professional opinion about a particular case or notice.

2.2. Not affiliated with anyone named here

Settlement Notices is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by any court, settlement administrator, law firm or company named on it. Those names appear as plain text so that you can recognize them, and links to their official sites are there so that you can check a fact for yourself. The site does not file claims, does not collect claim forms or notice details, and does not act for the parties to any settlement.

2.3. What the tools do and do not do

The tools take what the official sources say and apply it to what you type or choose. Their results are only as accurate as what you enter, and they have no official standing of any kind. They bind nobody: not a court, not a settlement administrator, not a company, not a government office.

• Whether a notice is genuine is something the tools never decide. They show what the official record contains and how you can compare it with your notice; the comparison, and the conclusion, are yours.
• Whether you are a class member depends on the class definition in the court-approved notice and on facts the tool cannot see.
• The date a deadline counts depends on its kind, such as online by, postmarked by or received by, and on what the court-approved notice and the court's orders say. A date the site shows may have been extended since it was checked.
• The documents in your hands, such as your notice, the claim form and the settlement agreement, are not visible to a tool, and they can change the answer.

2.4. What the site answers for, and what it does not

The site undertakes that the facts and the rules it cites are the ones the official source publishes, and it applies the procedure described in How we check to that end.

That undertaking does not extend to the outcome of your situation. Whether you qualify, what you would receive, whether a claim is accepted and when a payment arrives depend on the real facts, the court-approved settlement, the administrator's review and the view taken by whoever decides. No statement on this site is a decision, a prediction, or a finding about your own notice or claim.

The operator is not liable for the decisions you make on the basis of this site or for their consequences: filing or not filing a claim, opting out or not, objecting or not, missing a deadline, giving information to a website, or any other act or omission. The decisions are yours; legal advice about them comes from an attorney. Nor is the operator liable for loss arising from an error or omission in the content, from the site being unavailable, or from a fact being out of date between the day an official source changed and the day the site was corrected. All of this applies only to the extent the applicable law allows, and nothing in it excludes a liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, or any right you have as a consumer under the law of your state or under federal law.

2.5. Who actually decides

Nothing on this site decides anything. The people and bodies that do are these:

• The court that has the case approves the settlement, decides who is in the class, sets the final approval hearing and rules on objections.
• The settlement administrator named in the court-approved notice runs the claims process and answers questions about claims, at the website, address or phone number printed in that notice.
• Class counsel, the lawyers appointed by the court to represent the class, are named in the notice, and questions about the settlement can go to them.
• The court clerk can say where the official record of a case is kept.

If an official document you have received does not match what this site says, the official one governs. Please also let me know through Contact, because there is probably something here to correct.

2.6. Where to get help

For anything that affects your money, your rights or a deadline, speak to an attorney. Legal aid organizations help people who qualify, and state and local bar associations run lawyer referral services. The notice itself names class counsel, and the case lookup guide shows how to find the court record.

3. If you find an error

Write to hello@settlementnotices.com. You do not need to be sure, you do not need to work in the field, and you do not need to know what the right fact is. Saying that something does not look right is enough. How corrections are handled is described in How we check.

The information on this site is general and is not legal, tax or financial advice. It is not affiliated with any court, settlement administrator or company named. For your own situation, speak to an attorney. Sergio, editor of Settlement Notices.