Vacation Rentals by Owner (“Vrbo”) is an online marketplace for vacation rentals. On www.vrbo.com, users can plan trips, browse available vacation rentals in cities around the world, and reserve them online.
Labaton Keller Sucharow believes Vrbo may have installed tracking software on its site that secretly collects users’ personal data, such as IP addresses. This software is likely developed by third-party companies, such as Google and Facebook, and is designed to create user profiles for purposes such as tracking www.vrbo.com users across other websites and targeting them with advertisements.
The firm is representing clients in individual arbitration claims against Vrbo on behalf of users who visited www.vrbo.com and may have been tracked by third-party software without their consent. If you have an Vrbo account and visited the website in the past year, you may be eligible for a claim under California state law, which provides for statutory damages of $5,000 per violation.