Applicant Privacy Notice

Last updated: Jul 10, 2026

This Applicant Privacy Notice explains how Mythical Games (“Mythical,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, stores, shares, and retains personal information about candidates who apply for roles with Mythical, are referred to Mythical, are sourced by our recruiting team, or otherwise participate in our recruitment process.

This notice applies only to candidate and applicant information processed for recruitment and hiring purposes. It does not apply to personal information collected through Mythical’s games, websites, marketplaces, or other consumer services.

If you are a California resident, this notice is intended to provide information as required under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CCPA/CPRA”), where applicable.

Information We Collect

Depending on the position and stage of the recruitment process, we may collect personal information directly from you, from referrals, recruiting agencies, job boards, professional networking sites, background check providers, or other sources permitted by law.

The personal information we may collect includes:

• Contact information, such as your name, email address, phone number, address, and location.

• Application information, such as your resume/CV, cover letter, employment history, education, skills, qualifications, portfolio, LinkedIn profile, website, work samples, and answers to application questions.

• Recruitment process information, such as the role you applied for, source of application, interview notes, assessment results, recruiter and hiring team feedback, salary expectations, availability, work preferences, and communications with us.

• Work authorization information, such as your eligibility to work in the relevant country and whether you require visa sponsorship.

• Reference and background check information, where applicable and permitted by law.

• Equal employment opportunity, demographic, disability, or accommodation information, where voluntarily provided or required by law. This information is used only for legally permitted purposes and is not used to make unlawful hiring decisions.

• Technical information related to your use of our application systems, such as device information, IP address, browser information, timestamps, log data, and similar usage data.

• Audio, electronic, or visual information, where applicable, such as video interview recordings, voicemail messages, or recruiting event recordings.

Where we collect sensitive personal information, we do so only where necessary, permitted by law, or voluntarily provided by you. We do not use sensitive personal information to infer characteristics about applicants.

Sources of Personal Information

We may collect applicant personal information from:

• You directly.

• Recruiting firms, staffing agencies, or referral sources.

• References and former employers.

• Background screening providers.

• Publicly available professional networking sites.

• Educational institutions.

• Service providers supporting our hiring process.

• Mythical employees and team members involved in the recruitment process.

How We Use Your Information

We use candidate personal information to:

• Manage and administer the recruitment and hiring process.

• Evaluate your qualifications, skills, experience, and suitability for roles.

• Communicate with you about your application, interviews, assessments, and hiring process.

• Schedule and conduct interviews.

• Verify information you provide, including references and background checks, where applicable and permitted by law.

• Assess and provide reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process.

• Make hiring decisions and prepare offer or onboarding materials if you are selected.

• Maintain recruiting records and comply with legal, regulatory, reporting, and internal policy requirements.

• Protect Mythical systems, facilities, confidential information, and business operations.

• Improve our recruiting processes, systems, analytics, and candidate experience.

Recruitment Technology

We may use technology tools to help administer and support the recruitment process, such as applicant tracking systems, scheduling tools, communication tools, and tools that help organize or manage candidate information.

Mythical does not use solely automated decision-making to make hiring decisions. Hiring decisions involve human review.

Where we use automated tools, artificial intelligence, or similar technologies in a way that materially influences a hiring decision, we will provide any notices, disclosures, opt-out rights, human review processes, or other information required by applicable law.

Legal Basis for Processing

Where required by applicable law, we process applicant information based on our legitimate interests in recruiting employees, complying with legal obligations, taking steps prior to entering into an employment relationship, and, where required, based on consent.

How We Share Your Information

We may share your personal information with:

• Mythical employees and team members involved in the recruitment and hiring process, including Recruiting, People, hiring managers, interviewers, Finance, Legal, and IT, where relevant.

• Mythical affiliates or related entities, where appropriate for recruitment, hiring, business operations, or legal purposes.

• Service providers that support our recruiting process, including applicant tracking systems, HR systems, interview scheduling tools, assessment providers, background check providers, payroll and onboarding vendors, and communication tools.

• Recruiting agencies, referral sources, or other third parties involved in your application, where applicable.

• Legal, accounting, and professional advisors.

• Government authorities, regulators, courts, law enforcement, or other third parties where required or permitted by law.

We do not sell candidate personal information.

We do not share candidate personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

Background Checks

Where applicable to the role and permitted by law, employment may be contingent upon successful completion of a background check. Background checks are generally initiated after a conditional offer of employment and only after any required notice and authorization have been provided.

The scope of a background check may vary depending on the role, location, and applicable legal requirements.

Automated Decision-Making

We do not use solely automated decision-making to make employment decisions.

Data Retention

We retain candidate personal information for as long as necessary to manage the recruitment process, complete the hiring process, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, maintain business and recruiting records, enforce our agreements, and consider candidates for future opportunities where permitted by law.

Retention periods vary depending on the type of information, applicable law, business needs, litigation holds, and recordkeeping requirements. We retain information for the period required or permitted by applicable law.

If you are hired, certain candidate information may become part of your employee record and will be handled in accordance with applicable employee privacy notices and retention practices.

Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location, including if you are a California resident, you may have rights regarding your personal information, including the right to:

• Request access to or know the categories and specific pieces of personal information we collect.

• Request deletion of personal information.

• Request correction of inaccurate personal information.

• Receive information regarding disclosures of personal information.

• Limit certain uses of sensitive personal information, where applicable.

• Object to or restrict certain processing, where applicable.

• Not be discriminated against for exercising your privacy rights.

These rights may be subject to applicable exceptions and limitations.

How to Exercise Your Rights

To submit a privacy request or ask questions about this notice, please contact us at:

Email: hr@mythical.games
Mailing Address: 10990 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 1800, Los Angeles, CA 90024
Telephone: 913-346-6136

We may need to verify your identity before responding to your request.

Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect candidate personal information. However, no system or method of transmission is completely secure.

Changes to This Notice

We may update this notice from time to time. When we do, we will update the “Last updated” date above. Any updates will be posted on our careers website or otherwise provided as required by law.