Privacy Policy

​​Grow Quad Cities ("Grow QC", "we", "our" or "us") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through compliance with this policy. This policy describes how we collect, process, retain and disclose Personal Information about you when providing services to you through this website and our practices for using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information.

This policy applies only to information we collect on this website. For our Privacy Policy applicable to other Grow QC / Quad Cities Chamber websites, please visit quadcitieschamber.com/privacy-policy/

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we treat it. By interacting with this site or providing us with your information, you agree to the collection, use and sharing of your information as described in this privacy policy.

Terms used but not defined in this Privacy Policy have the meaning given to them in our Terms and Conditions.

We may update this Privacy Policy, from time to time. Updates will be posted on this page, and your continued use of the site indicates acceptance of those changes. Please review this policy periodically. Refer to Changes to Our Privacy Policy for additional details.


Children's and Minors' Data

This site is not intended for and we do not knowingly collect any Personal Information from children under the age of 13. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Information from a child under 13 years old without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.


The Personal Data That We Collect or Process

​​"Personal Information" is information that identifies, relates to or describes, directly or indirectly, you as an individual, such as your name, email address, telephone number or home address.​

​​The types and categories of Personal Information we collect or process include:​

  1. ​​Account and contact information, including name, address (such as home address, work address or other address), email address, phone number and other contact information you provide us.​
  2. Demographic information, including your age, gender, race or ethnicity and education, if you have consented to such information collection.
  3. Employment information, including employer, experience and job history.
  4. Content and information you elect to provide as part of your account profile, including information about your interests and activities on this site.
  5. Location information, including general geographic location such as country, state or province or city.
  6. Device information, including your IP address, device identifiers, operating system and version, preferred language, hardware identifiers, browser type and settings and other device information.

We also collect:

  1. Statistics or aggregated information. Statistical or aggregated data does not directly identify a specific person, but we may derive non-personal statistical or aggregated data from Personal Information. For example, we may aggregate Personal Information to understand engagement with this site or to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific feature.
  2. Technical information. Technical information includes information about your internet connection and usage details about your interactions with the site, such as clickstream information to, through and from our site (including date and time), pages that you view or search for; page response times, download errors, length of your visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks and mouse-overs) or methods used to browse away from a page.

If we combine or connect non-personal statistical or technical data with Personal Information so that it directly or indirectly identifies an individual, we treat the combined information as personal information.


How We Collect Your Personal and Other Data

You Provide Information to Us

​​We collect information about you when you interact with our site, such as when you create or update an account or create, upload or post content to the site, including employment opportunities or interests. We will collect Personal Information only if you voluntarily submit such information to us. You may refuse to supply Personal Information, but doing so may prevent you from engaging in certain site-related activities.


Automatically Through Our Site

​​As you navigate through and interact with our site, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect technical information that may be considered Personal Information or otherwise correlated with Personal Information. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, operating system and browser type and information collected through cookies, web beacons and other tracking technologies, including details of your interactions with our site, such as traffic data, location data, logs and other communication data and which resources and site features you access and use.

Our Site may use "cookies" to enhance the User experience. User's web browser places cookies on their hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about them. The User may choose to set their web browser to refuse cookies or to alert them when cookies are being sent. If they do so, note that some parts of the Site may not function properly.


How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Information, to:

  1. Provide you with the site and its contents, including by providing Personal Information to Employers for the purpose of contacting you about employment and other workplace opportunities.
  2. Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
  3. Provide you with notices about your account, including any notice of updates to our Terms and Conditions or this Privacy Policy.
  4. Improve our site, including developing, maintaining, analyzing, improving, optimizing, measuring and reporting on our site and its features and how users interact with them. [Our analysis may include the use of technology like machine learning and large language models, which may include training these models or sharing with third parties for model training.]
  5. Carry out our obligations and enforce our rights.
  6. In any other way, we may describe when you provide the information.
  7. For any other purpose with your consent.

The usage information we collect, whether connected to your Personal Information or not, helps us improve our site and deliver a better and more personalized experience by enabling us to:

  1. Estimate our audience sizes and usage patterns.
  2. Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize the site according to your individual needs and interests.
  3. Speed up your searches.
  4. Recognize you when you return to our site.

Messages from us. Upon registering with our site, you may begin receiving communications from us. If you have signed up for any of our automated account services, you may receive transactional emails and text messages regarding the status of your account and other related electronic correspondence. You may stop receiving emails and text messages by adjusting your account settings or following the “Unsubscribe” or “Stop” instructions provided to you; however, we will still communicate with you in connection with servicing your account, fulfilling your request or about any service or program in which you have elected to participate.


Who We Disclose Your Information To

We may disclose aggregated information about our users and information that does not identify any individual without restriction. We use aggregated information to improve this site and other services offered by Grow QC.

We may also disclose Personal Information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

  1. To Employers using this site, who you have requested receive your Personal Information.
  2. To contractors, service providers and other third parties we use to support the operation of this site and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep Personal Information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
  3. For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
  4. With your consent.

We may also disclose your Personal Information:

  1. To comply with any court order, law or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
  2. To enforce or apply our Terms and Conditions.
  3. If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of our organization, our members or others.

The categories of Personal Information we may disclose include:

  1. Account and contact information.
  2. Demographic information.

We do not disclose, sell or share your personal information for any other purpose.


Your Rights and Choices About Your Information

​​This section describes mechanisms you can use to control certain uses and disclosures of your information and rights you may have under state law, depending on where you live.​

  1. Access and Data Portability. You may confirm whether we process your Personal Information and access a copy of the Personal Information we process. To the extent feasible, data will be provided in a portable format. Depending on your state, you may have the right to receive additional information, and it will be included in the response to your access request.
  2. Corrections. You may request that we correct inaccuracies in your Personal Information that we maintain, considering the information's nature and its processing purpose.
  3. ​​Deletion. You may request that we delete Personal Information about you that we maintain, subject to certain exceptions under applicable law.​

​​To exercise any of these rights, please email quadcitieschamber@quadcitieschamber.com. To appeal a decision regarding a consumer rights request.​

​​Some browsers and browser extensions support the Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) that can send a signal to process your request to opt out from certain types of data processing, including data "sales" as defined under certain laws. When we detect such a signal, we will make reasonable efforts to respect your choices indicated by a GPC setting as required by applicable law.


How We Protect Your Personal Data

We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your Personal Information, username, password, transaction information and data stored on our site. Sensitive and private data exchange between the site and its users happens over an SSL-secured communication channel and is encrypted and protected with digital signatures. However, no website, mobile application, system, electronic storage or online service is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to, though using or in connection with the site. Emails, texts and chats sent to or from the site may not be secure, and you should carefully decide what information you send us via these communication channels. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk.

The safety and security of your information also depend on you. You are responsible for taking steps to protect your account and Personal Information against unauthorized use, disclosure and access.


How We Retain Your Personal Data

We keep the categories of Personal Information described in this policy for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described or for as otherwise legally permitted or required, such as maintaining the site, operating our organization, complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes and for safety, security and fraud prevention. This means that we consider our legal and business obligations, potential risks of harm and the nature of the information when deciding how long to retain Personal Information. At the end of the retention period, Personal Information will be deleted, destroyed or deidentified.


Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may update this policy from time to time and we will provide notice of any such changes as required by law. The date the privacy policy was last updated is identified at the bottom of the page. We will notify you of changes to this policy by updating the "last updated" date and posting the updated policy on the site. We may email or otherwise communicate reminders about this policy, but you should check our site periodically to view the current policy and any changes we have made.


Contact Information

To exercise your rights or ask questions or comment about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, contact us at:


Grow Quad Cities

331 W. 3rd Street, Suite 100

Davenport, IA 52801


563.322.1706

growquadcities.com


​​Last updated: October 29, 2025​