1. Introduction

Welcome to AccountMakers. AccountMakers is an online staffing, recruiting, hiring, and workforce platform operated by Scion Staffing, Inc. We help employers discover, evaluate, interview, engage, and hire professionals for temporary, interim, temporary-to-hire, fractional, contract, and direct-hire opportunities. We also allow job seekers and professionals to create profiles, express interest in opportunities, communicate with employers or our team, and participate in hiring and employment processes.

When you access or use our websites, applications, accounts, recruiting tools, candidate profiles, employer tools, communications, hiring workflows, or other services that reference this Policy, you are interacting with our “Services.” This Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal information in connection with those Services.

2. What This Policy Covers

This Policy applies to information collected through AccountMakers websites and applications, candidate and employer accounts, job applications, recruiting interactions, interviews, references, background-check workflows, assignment administration, onboarding, timekeeping, payroll, communications, marketing activities, and other online or offline interactions related to our Services.

Separate notices, agreements, authorizations, employment forms, applicant disclosures, client contracts, or jurisdiction-specific notices may supplement this Policy. If a separate notice applies to a particular interaction, that notice may govern that specific activity in addition to this Policy.

3. AccountMakers Is a Platform and Staffing Service

AccountMakers provides technology and staffing services that facilitate connections and transactions among employers, job seekers, candidates, temporary professionals, employees, contractors, service providers, and Scion Staffing personnel. The platform may support profile creation, talent discovery, candidate search, interview requests, job offers, hiring decisions, assignment administration, references, background checks, communications, payroll, timekeeping, and related functions.

Use of the platform does not guarantee that any candidate will receive an interview, offer, placement, assignment, or continued access to opportunities. Likewise, use of the platform does not guarantee that any employer will be matched with or permitted to engage a particular candidate or service.

Employers are responsible for their own hiring decisions, workplace practices, job requirements, and compliance obligations. Candidates and users are responsible for the accuracy of information they provide and for their interactions with other users.

4. Information We May Collect

Location, device, log, and usage information

Depending on the Services you use and your device settings, we may collect approximate location information, IP address, browser type, device identifiers, operating system, pages viewed, referral information, access dates and times, platform interactions, crashes, and similar technical or usage information. Where a feature requires precise location, we will use it only as permitted by applicable law and applicable permissions.

Transaction and platform activity

We may collect information related to requests, searches, interviews, offers, hiring activity, assignments, dates, times, service engagements, fees, payments, communications, and other activities conducted through the platform.

Communications

We may collect and retain emails, text messages, support requests, platform messages, interview communications, job-offer communications, recruiting notes, administrative messages, and similar interactions involving AccountMakers or users of our Services.

Contact, profile, and professional information

For candidates and job seekers, we may collect names, contact information, resumes, employment history, education, skills, certifications, languages, work samples, professional references, desired compensation, preferred job titles, availability, work-location preferences, remote or onsite preferences, work authorization, relocation preferences, profile images, and other information voluntarily added to a profile.

Employer and business information

For employers and employer users, we may collect company name, business address, company website, industry, company description, business contact details, team members, hiring-manager information, job openings, job requirements, work locations, compensation information, billing information, account credentials, search activity, recruiting preferences, talent searches, and information required to administer hiring or staffing engagements.

References, reviews, ratings, and work-related feedback

We may collect reference information, including the referee’s name, employer, title, relationship to a candidate, contact information, responses, ratings, scores, and comments. We may also collect reviews or feedback concerning candidates, workers, employers, assignments, or platform experiences. Where review or rating features are available, certain information may be visible to other users as described within the platform.

Employment, onboarding, payroll, tax, and assignment information

If you become an employee, temporary professional, contractor, or placed worker through AccountMakers or Scion Staffing, we may collect information necessary for onboarding, work eligibility, employment administration, payroll, tax reporting, direct deposit, timekeeping, benefits, assignment management, workplace compliance, terminations, and other employment-related obligations.

Sensitive information

Where reasonably necessary and legally permitted, we may collect sensitive information such as Social Security numbers, tax identifiers, government identification, immigration or work-authorization documentation, financial account information, disability or accommodation information, health and safety information relevant to employment, demographic information, or other legally protected information. We use such information only for appropriate operational, employment, legal, security, or compliance purposes.

Media and uploaded files

If you upload images, resumes, work samples, identification documents, or other files, we may store and process them to provide the Services. Users should avoid uploading unnecessary sensitive metadata, including embedded location information, unless it is required for a legitimate purpose.

5. How We Use Information

We may use personal information to:

• Operate, maintain, secure, and improve the AccountMakers platform and Services.
• Create and manage candidate and employer accounts.
• Match candidates with employers and opportunities.
• Evaluate qualifications, references, availability, experience, compensation expectations, and fit for opportunities.
• Facilitate interviews, job offers, hiring decisions, placements, assignments, and communications.
• Administer onboarding, timekeeping, payroll, taxes, benefits, employment, assignment changes, and terminations.
• Verify identity, credentials, work eligibility, references, and other information.
• Conduct background screening when appropriate notices and authorizations are provided.
• Provide customer support, security, fraud prevention, troubleshooting, and account administration.
• Send transactional, operational, legal, recruiting, service-related, and, where permitted, promotional communications.
• Conduct analytics, research, product development, testing, and service improvement.
• Measure marketing and advertising effectiveness where permitted by law and your consent choices.
• Comply with applicable laws, regulations, subpoenas, court orders, government requests, contracts, audits, and legal obligations.
• Protect the rights, property, safety, and security of AccountMakers, Scion Staffing, users, clients, workers, and others.
• Investigate misuse, policy violations, fraud, security incidents, or conduct that may harm users or the platform.
• Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

6. How We May Share Information

Employers and prospective employers

Candidate information may be shared with employers and prospective employers for recruiting, hiring, interview, placement, assignment, and workforce-administration purposes. This may include professional qualifications, work history, compensation expectations, availability, references, work samples, contact information, interview information, and other information relevant to an opportunity.

Candidates, workers, and other users

We may share information among users when necessary to facilitate platform functions, communications, interviewing, hiring, assignment administration, reviews, scheduling, or other requested interactions.

Service providers and integration partners

We may share information with service providers supporting hosting, applicant tracking, payroll, benefits, banking, reference checks, background screening, identity verification, communications, analytics, advertising, security, payment processing, automation, timekeeping, human resources, records management, and other business operations.

Scion Staffing, Inc. and related operations

AccountMakers is a division of Scion Staffing, Inc. Information may be shared with Scion Staffing and its divisions, brands, employees, and operational teams as reasonably necessary to provide Services, manage staffing and employment, operate the business, support users and clients, maintain security, or comply with legal obligations.

Legal and safety disclosures

We may disclose information when we believe in good faith that disclosure is required by law or legal process, necessary to enforce our agreements or policies, reasonably necessary to prevent fraud or unlawful activity, or appropriate to protect rights, safety, property, users, clients, workers, or the public.

Business transactions

Information may be transferred in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, sale, reorganization, bankruptcy, corporate restructuring, or transfer of all or part of our business or assets.

With your consent or direction

We may share information when you direct us to do so, authorize a disclosure, or use a feature that requires information to be shared with another person or service.

7. Cookies, Analytics, Advertising, and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, device identifiers, and similar technologies to operate and secure our websites, remember preferences, understand how our Services are used, improve performance, and, where permitted by your consent choices, measure and personalize advertising.

Cookie categories

• Necessary Cookies: used for security, fraud prevention, bot protection, session management, consent storage, authentication, load balancing, and other functions necessary to provide requested Services.
• Functional Cookies: support optional features, preferences, personalization, browser capabilities, and enhanced website functionality.
• Analytics Cookies: help us understand traffic, performance, referral sources, page usage, and user interactions.
• Advertisement and Marketing Cookies: may be used to measure advertising, build audiences, limit repeated advertising, support remarketing, and evaluate campaign performance.

Where consent is required by applicable law, non-essential cookies and similar technologies are intended to activate according to the choices you make through our cookie-consent controls. Necessary technologies may operate without consent when required to provide requested services, maintain security, store consent preferences, or perform other functions permitted by law.

Your cookie choices

You may accept, reject, or manage available categories of non-essential cookies through our cookie-consent tool. You may also modify your choices later through the cookie settings available on our website. Browser controls may also allow you to delete or block cookies, although doing so may affect website functionality.

Current Cookie Policy

The following Cookie Policy is generated through our cookie-consent management provider and is intended to display information about cookies and similar technologies identified on this website.

Analytics and advertising providers

We may use analytics and advertising services provided by Google, Microsoft/Bing, social media platforms, and other technology providers. Depending on your location and consent choices, these providers may receive information about your browser, device, website interactions, advertising interactions, or similar online activity.

We do not rely solely on continued use of the website as consent to non-essential advertising or analytics cookies where affirmative consent is required. Where applicable, such technologies are controlled according to your consent choices and applicable law.

Opt-out preference signals and state privacy rights

Depending on the state in which you reside and how applicable law defines certain advertising activities, some disclosures may be treated as a “sale,” “sharing,” or targeted advertising. Where legally required, we provide applicable opt-out mechanisms and may recognize legally required browser-based opt-out preference signals.

8. Candidates, Employers, Temporary Professionals, and Employees

AccountMakers is both a technology platform and a staffing service. As a result, information may be used differently depending on your relationship with us. Job seekers and candidates may use the platform to make profiles searchable, communicate with employers, participate in interviews, provide references, receive offers, and pursue employment opportunities. Employer users may use the platform to identify talent, communicate, interview, make offers, and manage staffing engagements.

If a candidate becomes employed through AccountMakers or Scion Staffing, additional employment-related processing may be required for onboarding, eligibility verification, payroll, benefits, assignment administration, workplace obligations, taxes, timekeeping, legal compliance, safety, and termination or offboarding.

AccountMakers may retain candidate and applicant information for future opportunities, recruiting purposes, business administration, legal compliance, recordkeeping, dispute resolution, security, and other lawful purposes.

9. Platform Access, Eligibility, and Business Discretion

To protect users, clients, workers, and the integrity of our platform, AccountMakers and Scion Staffing reserve the right, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to determine whether to provide, continue, limit, suspend, or discontinue Services or business relationships.

This may include deciding whether to:

• Create, approve, verify, restrict, suspend, or terminate an account.
• Accept or decline a candidate, employer, client, job opening, staffing request, assignment, or business relationship.
• Decline to present a candidate for a particular opportunity.
• Decline to work with an employer, client, candidate, vendor, or other person or organization.
• Remove, limit, or moderate profiles, content, job requests, reviews, messages, or platform activity.
• Require additional information, verification, documentation, or compliance steps before providing Services.
• Investigate suspected fraud, misuse, misrepresentation, harassment, discrimination, unlawful conduct, safety concerns, policy violations, or other conduct that may create risk.

Nothing in this section permits unlawful discrimination or other conduct prohibited by applicable law. Decisions may be based on legitimate business, legal, safety, security, compliance, service-quality, client, candidate, platform-integrity, reputational, or operational considerations.

10. Your Choices and Privacy Rights

Depending on your state of residence and the nature of your relationship with us, you may have rights to request access to personal information, correction, deletion, portability, confirmation of processing, or other rights provided by applicable law. Some states may also provide rights concerning targeted advertising, certain sales or sharing, profiling, or sensitive personal information.

California residents

California residents may have rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CCPA/CPRA”), subject to applicable exceptions and limitations. These may include rights to know, access, correct, or delete certain personal information and rights to opt out of certain sales or sharing of personal information.

We do not unlawfully discriminate against users for exercising applicable privacy rights.

Access, correction, and deletion requests

To submit a privacy request, contact us at info@accountmakers.com. We may require information reasonably necessary to verify your identity, such as your legal name, the email address associated with your account, your relationship with AccountMakers, and other verification information. We will respond in accordance with applicable law.

Communications

You may opt out of promotional emails by using the unsubscribe link provided in those messages. You may still receive transactional, administrative, legal, employment, recruiting, security, payroll, assignment, or other non-promotional communications that are necessary to provide Services or fulfill legal or contractual obligations.

Account status and profile controls

Where available, you may update profile information, communication preferences, or account status through platform settings. Certain records may be retained where required or permitted for payroll, tax, employment, legal, security, fraud-prevention, recordkeeping, or dispute-resolution purposes.

11. Data Security

We use administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure. These safeguards may include access controls, authentication, encryption in transit where appropriate, vendor controls, security monitoring, employee training, and other reasonable measures.

No system, website, transmission method, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Users are responsible for protecting passwords, account credentials, and access to their devices.

12. Data Retention

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide Services, manage candidate and client relationships, administer employment and payroll, comply with tax, employment, regulatory, and recordkeeping obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, maintain security, prevent fraud, and establish or defend legal claims.

Retention periods vary based on the type of information, the relationship involved, legal requirements, business needs, and applicable contractual obligations. We may retain aggregated or de-identified information where permitted by law.

13. Third-Party Services, Integrations, and Embedded Content

Our Services may contain links to third-party websites or integrate third-party tools, videos, maps, analytics, social media features, applicant systems, background-check providers, reference-checking services, payroll providers, or other services. Third parties may process information under their own privacy policies and terms. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of unaffiliated third parties.

Embedded content may behave as though you visited the third-party service directly. Depending on your consent choices and the technology involved, those providers may receive device, browser, IP, interaction, or other usage information.

14. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our Services, platform functionality, business practices, technology, legal obligations, or privacy requirements. The “Last Updated” date at the top of the page identifies the most recent revision.

Where required by law, we will provide additional notice of material changes or obtain consent for new uses of personal information when consent is required.

15. Contact Us