The Venetian Las Vegas Settlement Email Is Real: $1.6 Million for Californians Who Used VenetianLasVegas.com — About $3.60 If You Only Browsed, About $71.39 If You Booked, and Claims Close November 24, 2026

If you live in California and got an email or a postcard about a “Venetian Las Vegas” class action settlement, it refers to a real federal case. Venetian Las Vegas Gaming, LLC agreed to pay $1.6 million to settle Vasquez v. Venetian Las Vegas Gaming, LLC in the Northern District of California, and as of September 30, 2026 the claim form is open at VenetianLasVegasSettlement.com until November 24, 2026. No receipts or screenshots are required: you check a box saying which group you belong to and sign under penalty of perjury.

The class is narrow in one way and wide in another. Only California residents are included, and only for use of the website “while in California” between September 18, 2024 and March 16, 2026 — what counts is where you were when you used the site, not where you stayed. Within that, there are two groups, word for word from the settlement FAQ:

• Booking Settlement Class: “All California residents who, while in California, during the period from September 18, 2024 through March 16, 2026, made a reservation for a Venetian hotel stay through the Venetian Las Vegas website (venetianlasvegas.com).” The court's order phrases it as people who “provided personal information necessary to make a reservation.” Venetian's records put this group at about 35,159 people.
• Browsing Settlement Class: the same residents and period, but anyone who “accessed and/or navigated” venetianlasvegas.com — about 996,705 people by Venetian's records.

Excluded are the judge and the judge's family, and Venetian, its affiliates and their officers, directors, agents, attorneys and employees. The lawsuit claims that Venetian “disclosed its website users’ guest record information and confidential communications to third parties, without permission and in violation of Cal. Penal Code §§ 631-632” — the California Invasion of Privacy Act, or CIPA. Venetian “denies that it violated any law,” and the court has not decided who is right. The settlement documents we read do not name the tracking tools or the third parties; the release covers claims about the “alleged use of tracking software” on the Venetian Las Vegas website.

The two figures are not a range for one person. They are two separate pools. Of the $1.6 million, $931,713.50 (58.2%) is set aside for the Booking class and $668,286.50 (41.8%) for the Browsing class. Notice and administration costs, the attorneys' fees and the class representative's award come out of both pools in the same proportion, and what is left in each pool is divided in equal shares among the people in that group who file valid claims.

That makes the payment depend on how many people file, and the notice had to say what it assumed. After a preliminary approval hearing on August 13, 2026, Judge P. Casey Pitts told the parties the next day that “The browsing class claims rate should be estimated to be 10 percent” and “The booking class claims rate should be estimated to be 20 percent.” Apply those rates to the class sizes and you get, by our arithmetic, about 99,700 browsing claims and about 7,030 booking claims. $3.60 times 99,700 is about $358,800; $71.39 times 7,030 is about $502,000 — together about $860,800 reaching claimants. The other roughly $739,200 matches, by our back-calculation, the largest fee class counsel may request (one-third of $1.6 million, $533,333.33), the $5,000 service award and roughly $200,000 in notice and administration costs. The administration budget itself is not in the documents we read, and the court may award less in fees, which would raise every payment.

The gap between the groups is division. Before any deduction the booking pool works out to about $26.50 per class member and the browsing pool to about 67 cents, and the notice assumes bookers file at twice the rate. Fewer claims mean larger payments: if only 5 percent of browsers filed, the same money would pay about $7.20 each; if only 10 percent of bookers filed, about $142.78. More claims mean smaller ones. As the FAQ puts it, “The amount of payment will depend on how many of the Booking Settlement Class Members and Browsing Settlement Class Members file valid claims.”

Anyone who booked on the site also visited it. The paper claim form has a separate box for each group, but the documents we read do not say how a person who fits both is paid. The administrator's toll-free line is 1-877-367-1772.

Yes. A notice about this settlement is expected, and its details can be checked against the court record. The settlement agreement requires Venetian to give the administrator a list “from its records” with names, email addresses and last known postal addresses, and requires the administrator to email everyone with a valid address, with a mailed notice where email fails. On August 26, 2026 the court appointed Epiq Class Action & Claims Solutions, Inc. as administrator and gave it 30 days to send the first emails; a notice also ran on PR Newswire on September 25, 2026 under the name of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and banner ads are part of the plan. Reminder emails are due 30 and 7 days before the claims deadline — around October 25 and November 17, by our count — so a second and third email are normal, too.

What the genuine notice looks like, from the court-approved templates and the claim site:

• The email template shows the sender Administrator@venetianlasvegassettlement.com and the subject “Legal Notice of Class Action Settlement,” and says: “A court authorized this notice. You are not being sued. This is not a solicitation from a lawyer.”
• It names the case, Vasquez v. Venetian Las Vegas Gaming, LLC, Case No. 5:25-cv-07934, and the two estimates of $71.39 and $3.60.
• It carries a 10-character alphanumeric Unique ID and a 4-digit PIN. The claim site says “Both values will be found on your Email Notice or your Postcard Notice.” You use them to log in at claim.venetianlasvegassettlement.com, the filing portal linked from the official site.
• Everything points to one website, VenetianLasVegasSettlement.com, run by Epiq; to the line 1-877-367-1772; to info@VenetianLasVegasSettlement.com; and to P.O. Box 3278, Portland, OR 97208-3278. A Portland post office box is normal for Epiq — see our guide to Epiq settlement letters.
• The claim form asks for your name, address and email, which group you belong to, how you want to be paid — check, PayPal or Venmo, with the email or phone number tied to that account — and a signature. It has no field for a Social Security number, bank account or card number, and the FAQ says filing “is completely free.”

Two cautions. A sender address in a template proves little on its own, so check where a link leads rather than who the email is from: typing VenetianLasVegasSettlement.com into the browser yourself is safer than clicking. And an email is not proof that you are in the class. The definition decides, and the form is signed “under penalty of perjury” and “may be subject to audit, verification, and Court review.” If you were not a California resident using the site from California in that period, you are not in the class and give up nothing.

Qualify but got no notice? You can still file. The login page links “Don't have a Unique ID or PIN? Click here” to a blank online form; when we opened it on September 30, 2026 it asked only for confirmation of the Browsing class. The paper claim form on the site's Documents page lists both groups. If you booked through the site and received no notice, the login page says to contact the administrator.

• File a claim by November 24, 2026 — online until 11:59 p.m. PST that day, or by mail postmarked by then to Vasquez v. Venetian Las Vegas Settlement Administrator, P.O. Box 3278, Portland, OR 97208-3278. The notice calls it “the only way to receive a payment.” After filing online you get an email with a confirmation code; keep it.
• Opt out by November 24, 2026 if you want to keep your own right to sue Venetian over this: a signed request with your name and address, the case name and number, and a statement that you want to be excluded from the Booking and/or Browsing class. The notice gives the P.O. Box; the court's order counts a request “postmarked or emailed” by the deadline. If you opt out you get nothing from this settlement, and if more than 5 percent of class members opt out, Venetian has the option to cancel the deal.
• Object by November 24, 2026, in writing, filed with the court or mailed to the Class Action Clerk, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, 280 South 1st Street, San José, CA 95113, naming Vasquez v. Venetian Las Vegas Gaming, LLC, No. 5:25-cv-07934. Class counsel — Philip L. Fraietta and Stefan Bogdanovich of Bursor & Fisher, P.A. — must file and post the fee request by October 20, 2026, before objections are due. Responses are due November 12 and replies November 19.
• Final approval hearing: December 3, 2026, 10:00 a.m., Courtroom 8, Robert F. Peckham Federal Building & United States Courthouse, San José. You do not have to attend. The settlement site's home page labels the time “ET”; the court's order and the notice give 10:00 a.m. without a time zone, for a courthouse in San José. The hearing can move without notice, so check the settlement site first.
• Doing nothing means no payment, and you still give up the claims: “you are releasing the claims, regardless of whether you submit a claim or not.”

When the money would come. Not this year. Payments go out “45 days after the Settlement has been finally approved and/or any appeals process is complete”; the court's schedule says 45 days after the “Effective Date,” which the agreement sets ten days after the approval becomes final. Even with approval on December 3 and no appeal, that points to early 2027 at the earliest, by our count. You pick a check, PayPal or Venmo on the form; pick more than one and you get a check. Checks “expire and become void 180 days after they are issued.” Uncashed money is paid out in a second round only if each recipient would get at least $5.00; otherwise it goes to a non-sectarian nonprofit agreed by the lawyers and approved by the court. None of it goes back to Venetian.

Max Vasquez filed the 49-page complaint on September 17, 2025. Venetian, represented by Hunton Andrews Kurth, moved to dismiss on November 10, 2025, attaching among other exhibits its homepage “with Banner” and its privacy notices. Judge Pitts heard argument on January 15, 2026 and took the motion under submission; no ruling appears on the docket before the sides went to private mediation. A session of about 6 hours on April 9, 2026 with retired Judge Diane M. Welsh of JAMS produced the terms. In the agreement, the plaintiff and his lawyers acknowledge that Venetian “has raised factual and legal defenses that present a risk that Plaintiff may not prevail.”

Set against the statute, the deal is small. CIPA lets a person injured by a violation sue for “Five thousand dollars ($5,000) per violation.” Multiplied across the 996,705 browsing-class members alone, one violation each, that is about $4.98 billion on paper — our arithmetic, not a figure anyone in the case claimed. The settlement is $1.6 million. Judge Pitts did not simply accept the first version: after an order requiring additional disclosures on June 25, 2026, he had the parties put the claims-rate estimates into the notice, drop a ban on group opt-outs and ask less of objectors, and approved the modified deal on August 26. (The settlement website dates preliminary approval to August 14, the day he asked for those changes.)

Other website-tracking cases we follow: the $10 million Forbes tracker settlement, also for Californians only, with claims until November 9, 2026; the LiveHealth Online booking-tool settlement, claims until October 30; the BabyCenter cookie-tracking suits, which have not settled; and the Aspen Dental pixel settlement, which is closed to claims. Other deadlines are on our list of open class action settlements.