Tim Hortons has reached a proposed settlement in multiple class action lawsuits alleging the restaurant’s mobile app violated customer privacy, which would see the restaurant offer a free coffee and doughnut to affected users.
The settlement, negotiated with the legal teams involved in the lawsuits, still requires court approval.
The coffee and doughnut chain would also permanently delete any geolocation information it may have collected between April 1, 2019 and Sept. 30, 2020, and direct third-party service providers to do the same.
“We think that it’s a favourable settlement because it offers compensation that has a real value,” said Joey Zukran, a lawyer with the Montreal-based law firm LPC Avocat Inc., which filed the class action in Quebec….