Flo Health, Google and Flurry have agreed to a combined $59.5 million settlement over claims that the popular period and ovulation tracking app shared users’ menstruation and pregnancy data with those companies without consent, and the deadline to file for a share of that fund is October 15. Unlike a breach settlement built around a hack, nothing here was stolen by an outside intruder — the allegation is that the data-sharing was a deliberate business practice built into how the app operated.
What Flo Health, Google and Flurry allegedly did with users’ data
The lawsuit, formally Frasco, et al. v. Flo Health Inc., et al., pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleged that Flo shared private reproductive-health information entered by users — details about menstrual cycles and pregnancy status — with Google, Meta, Flurry and other third parties without adequate disclosure, in violation of federal and California privacy law. Flurry is an analytics and advertising company that embeds tracking code inside mobile apps, which is how the plaintiffs say the data reached outside parties despite users believing their entries stayed private inside the app.
None of the three companies has admitted wrongdoing. Flo Health, Google and Flurry agreed to the combined $59.5 million fund to resolve the claims rather than continue litigating, with Google contributing the largest share at $48 million, Flo Health $8 million and Flurry $3.5 million.
Google and Flurry reached their settlements before trial, but Flo Health did not settle until July 31, 2025, in the middle of a trial that had begun ten days earlier, according to case records kept by Labaton Keller Sucharow, one of the law firms serving as co-lead class counsel. The trial continued against Meta Platforms alone, and on August 1, 2025, a jury found Meta liable for its role in collecting and commercially using the health data — a verdict that applies only to Meta and is not part of the $59.5 million fund covered by this claim window.
The case is one of several that have targeted health and wellness apps over data-sharing practices in recent years, reflecting a broader legal push to treat reproductive-health data entered voluntarily into an app with the same protection as medical records held by a doctor’s office.
Scrutiny of period-tracking apps intensified industry-wide after 2022, when concerns grew that pregnancy and cycle data stored by a private company could be subpoenaed or otherwise obtained in ways a medical record protected by federal health privacy law could not. This settlement predates and is legally separate from that later wave of attention, since the conduct at issue happened between 2016 and 2019, but it is part of the same underlying pattern regulators and plaintiffs’ attorneys have pursued: treating an app’s internal data-sharing arrangements with advertising and analytics partners as a privacy violation in its own right, independent of who eventually accesses the data downstream.
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How the pro-rata payout works, and why California users get double
There is no flat per-person dollar figure attached to this settlement. Instead, the net fund is distributed on a pro-rata basis among everyone who files a valid claim, meaning the final payment amount depends on the total number of claimants rather than a fixed sum promised up front. California residents who used the app during the eligible window and can provide documentation of their California residency qualify for a subclass that receives twice the pro-rata share of the standard nationwide class, reflecting stronger state-level privacy protections under California law.
Filing requires an email address associated with a Flo account from the eligible period, and California subclass members must additionally show proof of residency during that window to claim the enhanced share. The claims administrator, A.B. Data, processes submissions through the official settlement claim portal, and the deadline for filing is October 15, 2026.
A separate deadline governs objections to the settlement’s terms — anyone who wants to formally object rather than simply opt out has until October 8, 2026 to do so, one week ahead of the claim-filing cutoff.
The narrow 2016-2019 window, and why exclusion already closed
Eligibility is unusually specific: only users who entered menstruation or pregnancy information into the Flo app between November 1, 2016, and February 28, 2019, qualify, a roughly 28-month window from nearly a decade ago. Someone who started using Flo after that period, even if they have used it continuously for years since, would not be part of this settlement class regardless of how the app currently handles data-sharing.
Unlike the other settlements in this cycle, the option to exclude oneself from this case and preserve an independent right to sue has already closed — that deadline was tied to a class notice sent in June 2025, well before the current claims window opened, so anyone who did not opt out then remains bound by the settlement now. The final approval hearing is scheduled for October 29, 2026, in San Francisco, after which the court will determine the final fee and cost deductions that set the size of the fund actually available to claimants.
The gap between the 2016-2019 conduct at issue and the 2026 payout illustrates how long a privacy case involving a widely used consumer app can take to resolve, from initial filing through years of litigation to a settlement that still requires claimants to dig up an old email address before they can collect anything. Anyone who used Flo during that specific window and still has access to the email account tied to their account from that period has the easiest path to filing before October 15.
This article was researched and drafted with the assistance of artificial intelligence.
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