Accenture
Information Technology
23
out of 100. Number 477 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Accenture does well
- Arbitration 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Price & terms 3 of 15. Few problems found.
- No forced arbitration or class-action waiver appears in the website Terms of Use — Accenture relies on a conventional Illinois governing-law clause instead, which is friendlier than the forced-arbitration standard common among consumer tech companies. The privacy statement (updated June 17,
- is unusually detailed, with a OneTrust-based opt-out for 'sale' of personal data, an Accenture Preference Center for marketing controls, and explicit AI limits: 'Your personal data will not be used to develop, train, enhance or refine AI solutions, unless we specifically inform you.' Sensitive data is stated as generally not collected through the site, and withdrawal of consent is honored (processing prior to withdrawal is unaffected, per standard).
You must sue Accenture under Illinois law, and if you do, Accenture gets to pick where the case is heard — 'entirely as it suits us, without regard to where in the world you are located.' The company reserves a one-sided right to choose the most convenient forum for itself.
The fine print
6 clauses and findings from the draft archive, dated 1 October 2026. The plain English comes first; the small print is the company's own words. None of these has been checked yet.
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You must sue Accenture under Illinois law, and if you do, Accenture gets to pick where the case is heard — 'entirely as it suits us, without regard to where in the world you are located.' The company reserves a one-sided right to choose the most convenient forum for itself.
Accenture maintains this site in Illinois, U.S.A. and you agree that these terms of use and any legal action or proceeding relating to this site shall be governed by the laws of the State of Illinois without reference to its choice of law rules. If you attempt to bring any legal proceedings against Accenture you specifically acknowledge that Accenture is free to choose the jurisdiction of our preference as to where such action against us may be held. As you have agreed by using this site to choose the laws of the State of Illinois to govern any such proceedings, we will probably choose to defend any such action in Illinois and we can make this decision entirely as it suits us, without regard to where in the world you are located, or from where in the world you visited this site.
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If you send Accenture a business idea through the site (without a prior confidential relationship), they can develop, use, and publish it — or something like it — freely, with no compensation and no obligation to you. Your submission is not treated as confidential by default.
Any ideas disclosed to Accenture outside a pre-existing and documented confidential business relationship are not confidential and Accenture may therefore develop, use and freely disclose or publish similar ideas without compensating you or accounting to you. ... By submitting an idea or other detailed submission to Accenture through this website, you agree to be bound by the terms of this stated policy.
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Accenture admits it shares personal data with clients and third-party partners in ways that count as a 'sale' under California law. You can opt out, but the sharing-for-value happens first by default.
While Accenture generally is not in the business of selling information, there are limited circumstances where we share personal information with our clients, third-party partners, or others that we treat as a sale for which California residents have the right to opt out.
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Accenture's marketing emails track whether you open, read, or delete them, and clicking a link lets Accenture log which website pages you visit and what you download — even if you're not signed in or registered.
Our targeted e-mail messages typically include web beacons, cookies, and similar technologies that allow us to know whether you open, read, or delete the message, and links you may click. When you click a link in a marketing e-mail you receive from Accenture, we will also use a cookie to log what pages you view and what content you download from our websites, even if you are not registered at or signed into our site.
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Accenture merges your website activity, email interactions, public social media data, and LinkedIn/Xing login info into combined profiles. Alongside 'targeted online advertising, including profiling' delivered through Accenture's own ad platforms, this is ad-tech profiling behavior from a B2B consulting firm.
We may combine data from publicly available sources, and from our different e-mail, website, and personal interactions with you (this includes information collected across our different websites such as our careers and corporate sites and information collected when you sign-up or log on to our sites or connect to our sites using your social media credentials (such as LinkedIn and Xing). We combine this data to better assess your experience with Accenture and to perform the other activities described throughout our privacy policy.
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Job applicants may have their video interviews recorded and transcribed (possibly with AI assistance) and shared among recruiters — justified under 'legitimate interests,' with no mention of the applicant's prior consent. The same table lists 'basic Internet searches' by recruiters as a routine data source.
In some cases, take photos, record and/or transcribe your online interview and assessment (which may include AI-powered support capabilities) for review by additional recruiters and hiring managers.
How these were found
Documents read October 1, 2026: Accenture 'Privacy Statement' (effective June 17, 2026, including the California Residents section) and 'Terms of Use' (undated, no version stamp shown) at accenture.com/en/support, plus the Accenture Explorer Mobile Application Privacy Statement (effective July 15, 2020). Accenture is a B2B professional services firm with essentially no consumer product, so the arbitration, auto-renew, and price-change categories were scored against website legal documents only and are near-zero by design, not by investigation failure. Quotes taken directly from page text via browser_open; no mirrors used. The Recruitment and Hiring Privacy Statement was consulted via search snippets only for context, not quoted as a primary finding.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.