Iowa LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce Privacy Policy

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This privacy policy notifies you of the privacy practices for https://www.iowalgbtqchamber.org (Website). The privacy policy notice below applies solely to information collected by this website.

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Information Collection, Use, and Sharing
The Iowa LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce is the sole owner of information collected through the Website. The Iowa LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce collects information voluntarily entered into the Website’s online forms. These forms allow users to enter personally identifiable information, such as name and address, and payment information, including credit card numbers. The Iowa LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce also collects certain information in web logs to understand how users experience the website. The Iowa LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce will not sell or rent information collected on the website without your consent.

The Iowa LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce may use your information for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our services, including to monitor the usage of our Website.
  • To manage your account: to manage your registration as a user of the Website. The information you provide can give you access to different functionalities of the Website that are available to you as a registered user.
  • To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication.
    To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer unless you have opted not to receive such information.
  • To manage your requests.
  • We may use your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve the Website, services, marketing, and your experience.

We may share your information in the following situations:

  • We may share your information with service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Website.
  • We may share your information with our community partners, in which case we will require those partners to honor this Privacy Policy.
  • We may share your information with corporate partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
  • Unless you have opted out, your information may be shared with other users of the Website in your directory listing and/or profile page.
  • We may disclose your information for any other purpose with your consent.


The Iowa LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. The Iowa LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, such as to publish your advertisement or to process a credit card transaction.

Unless you ask us not to, The Iowa LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.

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Retention of Your Information
The Iowa LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce will retain your information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
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The Iowa LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce will also retain usage data for internal analysis purposes. Usage data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of the Website, or the Iowa LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce is legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

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Disclosure of Your Personal Data‍

  • Law enforcement: Under certain circumstances, the Iowa LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce may be required to disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
  • Other legal requirements: The Iowa LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce may disclose your information in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
    • Comply with a legal obligation
    • Protect and defend the rights or property of the Iowa LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce
    • Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Website
    • Protect the personal safety of users of the Website or the public
    • Protect against legal liability

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Cookies
The Iowa LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce website uses “cookies,” or small text files that can be read by a web server in the domain that put the cookie on your hard drive. The Iowa LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce may use cookies to store your preferences and settings and analyze site operations.

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Your Access to and Control Over Information
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do any of the following by contacting us by email at info@iowalgbtqchamber.org.

  • Change/correct any data we have about you.
  • Have us delete any data we have about you.
  • Express any concern you have about our use of your data

You may choose to publish or hide your profile and directory listing data through the Website in your account settings at any time.

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Security
We are committed to ensuring the privacy of your personal information and have established safeguards to help protect such information. For example, to protect your privacy, the Iowa LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce uses passwords to help verify authorized user identity before granting access anywhere your personal information is stored. All online monetary transactions are done on a secure server. This means that information entered on the transaction page is encrypted before transmission. Though we strive to ensure the security of your information on our systems, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable and data transmission over the internet cannot be guaranteed to be 100% secure.

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Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
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Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us by email: info@iowalgbtqchamber.org

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