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Sesame, Inc. (d/b/a “Sesame” or “SesameCare”)
200 Broadway, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10038
Support@sesamecare.com
Pre-Arbitration Notice of Individual Consumer Privacy Dispute
To Whom It May Concern:
I am sending this Notice of Dispute to notify Sesame, Inc. (d/b/a “Sesame” or “SesameCare”), together with its subsidiaries, affiliates, agents, and related entities (collectively, “Sesame”), of my individual dispute arising from my use of Sesame’s services and Sesame’s deployment or enablement of third-party tracking code and related technologies in connection with, and during, my electronic health-related communications and interactions with Sesame without my valid prior consent or other lawful authorization.
Nature and Basis of the Dispute
I used Sesame’s services while physically located in {answer_2}. During my use of those services, I {answer_3} and otherwise communicated and interacted with Sesame. To the best of my recollection, I did so within the applicable limitations period.
Based on my current understanding and counsel’s investigation into Sesame’s tracking practices, Sesame deployed, enabled, or caused the deployment of tracking code associated with Google, including Google Ads, Google Analytics, and related Google tracking and advertising infrastructure, including on Sesamecare.com. Counsel’s investigation showed that the tracking code caused or permitted the contents of electronic communications with Sesame, or information reflecting the substance and meaning of those communications, to be contemporaneously transmitted or otherwise made available to Google or other third parties. Depending on the interaction, the information transmitted or made available included or reflected, as applicable, webpage URLs, page titles, browsing activity, searches for healthcare services and medical conditions, visits to condition-specific healthcare pages, and other information relating to my interactions with Sesame. For example, counsel’s investigation identified transmissions to Google that included authenticated visitors’ Google account identity cookies (“Secure-3PAPISID" / “__Secure-3PSID") alongside sensitive health-page URLs (e.g., user’s search for “flu” and a corresponding page title relating to online flu treatment and medicine; “/complaint/online-urgent-care") to Google’s ad-conversion and identity-service endpoints during live telehealth browsing sessions.
Taken together, these findings support a reasonable inference that Sesame deployed or enabled the challenged tracking code not merely to process health-related communications between consumers and Sesame, but to associate information reflecting the contents or substance of those communications with consumer identifiers or persistent behavioral profiles and to facilitate the subsequent profiling, use, disclosure, targeted advertising, marketing, commercial exploitation, or other unlawful downstream use of that information.
Upon information and belief, the challenged tracking code operated in the manner described above in connection with my electronic health-related communications and interactions with Sesame, causing or permitting the contents or substance of my communications to be contemporaneously transmitted or otherwise made available to Sesame, Google, or other third parties.
I did not provide legally sufficient prior consent or authorization for Google or another unrelated third party to contemporaneously receive, read, learn, or otherwise acquire the contents of my electronic health-related communications with Sesame as described above.
Separately, the investigation showed that the Tracking Tools recorded or decoded non-content dialing, routing, addressing, signaling, or related information associated with electronic communications and interactions with Sesame (e.g., IP addresses, URLs, page location information, page titles, cookies, persistent identifiers, and related metadata). Upon information and belief, the challenged tracking technology operated in this manner in connection with my electronic communications and interactions with Sesame, thereby recording or decoding non-content dialing, routing, addressing, signaling, or related information associated with my communications.
I contend that the conduct described above violated federal and state anti-wiretapping, interception, eavesdropping, and electronic-surveillance laws, including the Federal Wiretap Act, as amended by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (“ECPA”), 18 U.S.C. §§ 2510–2523, including 18 U.S.C. § 2511, by intentionally intercepting, endeavoring to intercept, procuring, enabling, or otherwise causing the interception of my electronic communications in violation of federal law. These claims include any applicable theories concerning interception, procurement or assistance of interception, and use or disclosure of unlawfully intercepted communications recognized under the law governing my communications.
I further contend that Sesame violated California Penal Code §§ 638.50-638.51 by installing, using, enabling, or causing the use of a pen register device or process that recorded or decoded non-content dialing, routing, addressing, signaling, or related information associated with my electronic communications, without first obtaining the required court order and without any applicable statutory exception or other lawful authorization.
I reserve all other statutory, common-law, contract, consumer-protection, privacy, equitable, or related claims, theories, rights, and remedies supported by the facts and applicable law.
Relief Sought
I presently seek $5,000 in monetary relief to resolve this dispute. This amount reflects my present good-faith settlement demand based on the information currently available, including the claims asserted and the remedies potentially available under applicable federal and state anti-wiretapping, interception, eavesdropping, and electronic-surveillance laws, and other applicable law. I also seek injunctive relief requiring Sesame to cease the challenged tracking practices unless and until Sesame brings those practices into compliance with applicable law.
Nothing in this Notice waives any claim, remedy, or right to seek different or additional relief if subsequently discovered facts, applicable law, or the course of proceedings establishes entitlement to such relief. Nor does this Notice constitute any concession concerning the number, measure, or proper unit of violations or damages
Informal Resolution
I am providing this Notice in good faith to afford Sesame an opportunity to resolve this dispute before formal proceedings become necessary. I am willing to engage in good-faith resolution discussions during the 60 days following Sesame’s receipt of this Notice. If the dispute is not resolved, I am prepared to pursue arbitration before the AAA and pursue any other available remedy.
Nothing in this Notice constitutes a concession or waiver concerning the existence, formation, assent to, notice of, applicable version, applicability, scope, interpretation, or enforceability of any arbitration, dispute-resolution, or related procedural provision Sesame may invoke, including any procedures or conditions governing the initiation, administration, or resolution of a dispute. I expressly reject—and do not consent to—any unilateral amendment or modification to Sesame’s terms unless I affirmatively agree in a separate, signed writing. I further reserve all arguments that any purported requirement has been satisfied or substantially complied with, waived or forfeited, excused, inapplicable, or unenforceable. Nothing in this Notice waives any claim, remedy, defense, objection, or right to proceed in any forum otherwise available under applicable law.
This Notice is based on the information currently available and is not intended as an exhaustive statement of all facts, claims, theories, or remedies. I reserve the right to supplement this Notice as additional information becomes available.
Sesame should take reasonable steps to preserve documents and electronically stored information relevant to this dispute, including information concerning the challenged tracking technologies, their configuration and operation, my relevant interactions with Sesame’s services, and the information collected, recorded, or transmitted in connection with those interactions.
If Sesame considers this Notice deficient in any manner, please notify my attorneys so that they may consider and respond during the informal-resolution process.
I authorize Sesame to communicate with my counsel identified below and to produce to them all records and information associated with me that are reasonably necessary to evaluate and resolve this dispute.
Please direct all communications concerning this matter to my counsel identified below.
Sincerely,