Here’s the full “OPT-OUT” email sent to previous CLEAR card holders.(Click here For the full post on the new CLEAR.)
NOTICE OF INTENT TO TRANSFER CUSTOMER DATA AND OPPORTUNITY TO RECEIVE FREE CREDIT FOR REMAINING SUBSCRIPTION TERM OR TO ELECT TO HAVE DATA DESTROYED
TO CUSTOMERS OF CLEAR AND VERIFIED IDENTITY PASS, INC.
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that Verified Identity Pass, Inc., the owner and operator of Clear (“Verified”), is selling substantially all of its assets (the
“Assets”) to Alclear, LLC which will do business as CLEAR (the “Buyer”). Buyer is a private company backed by various investors including L-1 Identity
Solutions, a leading biometric solutions company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
As part of its purchase of the Assets, the Buyer will restart the CLEAR service and offer each current or former customer (“Customer”) the
opportunity to enter into the new CLEAR service. Each Customer that accepts the offer will receive a credit equal to the number of months that remained in
that Customer’s contract with Verified as of June 24, 2009. Buyer will be sending you details of the new CLEAR service, including how to qualify for the
credit and what changes will be made to the Verified Privacy Policies under the new program, in the near future.
I. OPT-OUT NOTICE TO TRANSFER OF PERSONAL INFORMATION AND CHANGE IN PRIVACY POLICY TO REFLECT TRANSFER
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that Verified is seeking to transfer as part of the Assets any and all personal and biometric data of any Customer stored and
maintained by or at the direction of Verified (the “Customer Data”). Subject to future notice of change from Buyer, Buyer will maintain the security of all
Customer Data it receives from Verified according to all applicable rules, law and privacy policies, including applicable Transportation Security
Administration rules, regulations, and standards and Verified’s privacy policies in existence at the time your Customer Data was collected and at the time
Verified ceased operations. Buyer has expressly agreed to be Verified’s successor-in-interest of your Customer Data if transferred to Buyer, to be
responsible to you for its violation of those policies following the transfer of your Customer Data, to use your Customer Data only for the purposes for
which it was originally collected or for which you’ve given consent, and not to disclose, sell, or transfer your Customer Data to any third party in a way
that’s inconsistent with the applicable privacy policy.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the transfer of any Customer Data requires a change to Verified’s privacy policies. Verified’s privacy policy for
the Clear program in Section 3A (ADDITIONAL LIMITATIONS ON APPLICANT AND MEMBER PERSONAL INFORMATION) stated that Verified does not sell or give personal
information of its Customers to other businesses. That privacy policy has been changed to reflect the transfer to Buyer of the Customer Data of those
Customers who do not object to the transfer. This change to the privacy policy will be posted on the Verified website (http://www.verifiedidpassinc.com) in
a “redline” form that highlights the changes made to the privacy policy so you can track the changes.
II. OPT-OUT INSTRUCTIONS IF YOU DO NOT WANT YOUR DATA TRANSFERRED
If you want to receive your free credit for the remaining subscription term, no action is necessary at this time. We will contact you at the
appropriate time with more information about how to become a customer of the new CLEAR service. No Customer will be billed until he or she accepts a plan of
service with the new CLEAR service. If you do not object to the transfer of your Customer Date to the Buyer, you do not need to do anything.
If you do object to having your Customer Data transferred to the Buyer, then you must take affirmative action to have your Customer Data destroyed by
completing and mailing the attached Customer Data Destruction Election Form (“Form”) to P.O. Box 42010, Nashville, TN 37204-2010, postmarked no later than
July 22, 2010. If you do not complete and mail the attached Customer Data Destruction Election Form by July 22, 2010 (the “Deadline”) to the address above,
you will be deemed to have consented to the transfer of your Customer Data to the Buyer. If you complete and mail the attached Data Destruction Election
Form by July 22, 2010 to the address above, your Customer Data will not be transferred to the Buyer. Instead, it will be destroyed within 30 days after the
Deadline and you will be ineligible to receive your credit for the number of months that remained in your contract with Verified. If you complete and return
your Form on time, you may be contacted by Alclear or one of its affiliates to confirm your election.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that in order to advise the court with regards to the transfer of the Customer Data to the Buyer and to assure continued
privacy of the Customer Data, the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York appointed Todd B. Ruback as a consumer privacy ombudsman (the
“Ombudsman”) in connection with the sale of the Assets. The Ombudsman has reviewed and approved these procedures and has worked with Verified and the Buyer
to ensure the security and continued privacy of all Customer Data.
ABOUT THE BUYER
Alclear is thrilled at the opportunity to rebuild CLEAR. We are a private company backed by various investors including L-1 Identity Solutions, a
leading biometric solutions company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Your biographic and biometric data will be stored in a Government-certified
secure facility.
You may obtain further information about Alclear and its plans to restart the CLEAR service at www.flyclear.com.
Dated: June 22, 2010
CUSTOMER OPT-OUT OF TRANSFER OF CUSTOMER DATA AND CUSTOMER DATA DESTRUCTION ELECTION FORM
By signing and mailing this form to the address set forth below you are expressly opting-out of the transfer of your customer data from Verified Identity
Pass, Inc. (“VIP”) to Buyer and are forfeiting your right to receive free credit for your remaining term. By opting-out of this transfer, you are electing to
have your customer data destroyed. In order to opt-out of the transfer of your customer data and therefore have your customer data destroyed, you must
complete and mail this form to the address set forth below postmarked no later than July 22, 2010.
P.O. Box 42010
Nashville, TN 37204-2010
By signing below, I certify the following:
I was a customer of Verified Identity Pass, Inc. and I was enrolled in VIP’s CLEAR Registered Traveler program.
My name and current address, as set forth below, is true and correct. I am providing this information for the sole purpose of allowing VIP to verify that I
was enrolled in VIP’s Clear Registered Traveler Program.
I DO NOT CONSENT TO THE TRANSFER OF MY CUSTOMER DATA TO ALCLEAR, LLC AND I INSTRUCT VIP TO DESTROY MY CUSTOMER DATA
I acknowledge that, by completing and mailing this form, my CLEAR customer data will be destroyed and I will be ineligible to receive a credit from Alclear,
LLC for the number of months that remained in my CLEAR member contract with VIP after June 24, 2009.
(Click here For the full post on the new CLEAR.)
Funny, I never received this letter; but then the few times I was able to use the CLEAR line in ATL, it was slower than the other lines. Maybe they’re just slow with the mail.
I would like to have the opportunity to have my data destroyed.