Dating app Grindr has agreed to pay £26 million ($35 million) to settle a lawsuit brought by thousands of users in the United Kingdom who alleged the company shared highly sensitive personal information with advertising companies, including HIV status in some cases.

The settlement ends a two-year legal dispute after London law firm Austen Hays filed a group action in the High Court of England and Wales in April 2024 on behalf of Grindr users.

The firm represented about 12,000 people in the case. If the £26 million settlement were divided equally, each claimant would receive an average of about £2,167.

The allegations concerned data practices dating back to early 2020 and focused on whether Grindr unlawfully disclosed private information to third-party companies for advertising purposes.

Grindr, which is headquartered in West Hollywood, California, said in a US regulatory filing that it had resolved the UK group action concerning what it described as "historical........

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