Privacy

Overview
This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") explains information-gathering and dissemination practices for PlusVentures, LLC's, www.PlusSize.com (the "Site"). The website is dedicated to creating a lifestyle brand that is the source of entertainment, news and information about the fashion industry and other issues pertaining to our visitors. This Site provides the PlusSize.com community with news, features and interactive forums for maximizing the PlusSize.com experience.

PlusVentures, LLC takes your privacy rights seriously and has posted this Privacy Policy to let PlusSize.com users know what information we collect from you, why we collect it and what we do with it. Our goal is to collect and use only that information that we think is necessary for our legitimate business interests, such as to better understand and serve you, the PlusSize.com community, to provide better service and to improve marketing of the PlusSize.com website.

Acceptance of These Terms
This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is subject to the PlusSize.com Terms of Use of the Site. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy or the Terms of Use of the Site, please do not provide PlusSize.com with any information and do not use the PlusSize.com site or services. Your continued use of the PlusSize.com site after the Privacy Policy has been modified will signify your acceptance of the changes for information gathered after the date of the change.

Third Party Advertising
The ads appearing on this Web site may be delivered to you PlusSize.com or by one of our advertising partners. Information about your visit to this site, such as number of times you have viewed an ad (but not your name, address, or other personal information), may be used to serve ads to you on this site.

Third Party Cookies
In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertisers may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser.

Does this Privacy Policy apply to you?
This privacy policy covers PlusSize.com's information collection and use practices for anyone who uses the Site. Except as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy, PlusSize.com will not share your personally identifiable information with any third parties unless you give PlusSize.com permission to do so or except as required by law or to cooperate with law enforcement authorities.
This site may contain links to other websites, advertisers and other third parties. By clicking on any of these links, you are leaving the site. PlusSize.com has no control over the information collected from or about you by any third party after you have left the site. This Privacy Policy does not cover the data collection and use practices of any third party linked to PlusSize.com. PlusSize.com assumes no liability and is not responsible for any practices of such third party web sites, including their privacy practices or content.

What information, including personally identifiable information, does PlusSize.com collect from and about you?
Our goal in collecting information from and about you is to provide you with the best web experience possible. In order to provide you with our services, PlusSize.com collects two types of information from its community: passive technical information; and information you voluntarily provide to PlusSize.com, including personally identifiable information.

Passive Technical Information. PlusSize.com automatically collects certain technical information for each visitor, including your IP address, the type of browser you use to surf the Internet, your screen resolution, and your computer's operating system. Your IP address tells PlusSize.com both your Internet Service Provider (ISP) and the general geographic location from which you are connecting. PlusSize.com may also use your IP address to track the date and time you accessed the site, how long you stayed on the site and what pages you visited. This information is used internally by PlusSize.com to help provide a good web experience to our community, including proper formatting for our web pages. This information is also provided in the aggregate to third parties, including potential business partners and advertisers, to describe basic use patterns for the site, but this information is not linked to any personally identifiable information before it is disclosed unless PlusSize.com has obtained your consent. In addition, PlusSize.com may use cookies on this site. Cookies are small data text files that are sent from a server computer to your computer during a browsing session so that the web site may track your activities on the web site. Cookies are typically stored on your computer's hard drive and are used by web sites to simulate a continuous connection to that site. Cookies, by themselves, do not necessarily let a web site know any personally identifying information about you, such as your real name, address, etc., unless you previously provided that information at the web site or have set your preferences in your browser to provide that information. PlusSize.com is not generally interested in any one individual and does not collect personally identifiable information about any one person using cookies. PlusSize.com may however use cookies to save your password so that you don't have to reenter it each time you visit the Site.

-Information You Provide. PlusSize.com does not require anyone to register and become a PlusSize.com member for general use of the Site. However, should you choose to register and become a PlusSize.com member so that you may take advantage of PlusSize.com's membership benefits (which may include access to chat rooms, message boards and Filter rating systems), PlusSize.com may require that you provide certain information such as first name, last name, e-mail address, etc. Additionally, PlusSize.com may ask for other optional information so that we can learn more about who our users are and what they want out of our site. In order to better understand our users and to provide you with a better web experience, we may analyze the ages of our users in connection with the pages our users tend to visit and the shows they access. PlusSize.com's use and disclosure of the information you provide us, including personally identifiable information, is set forth below.

What other organizations besides PlusSize.com may be collecting information from you on the Site?
PlusSize.com may use outside advertising companies to display banner advertisements on the site. Banner advertisements may also contain cookies, and appear to be coming from PlusSize.com; but, in reality, they may be coming from third parties who are serving advertisements on the site. PlusSize.com has no control over the privacy practices of any third party, and the manner in which any third party uses your information is not protected by the terms of this Privacy Policy. Further, once you leave the site, PlusSize.com does not control the privacy policies or the privacy practices of any third parties.

What happens to my information after PlusSize.com collects it?
When PlusSize.com collects information from you, we do not share any information with third parties without your consent. You will give this consent by "opting-in" to having your information shared with third parties when you register. These third parties may include PlusSize.com's marketing partners, who may want specific information to better shape their marketing efforts. Additionally, PlusSize.com provides the community the opportunity to be send newsletters and information about promotional events, publications, and marketing events. Again, PlusSize.com will not send this information to you unless you "opt in" for these services and publications.

In addition, PlusSize.com will not sell, dispose, or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to third parties without your consent except as specifically set forth in this paragraph and in the preceding paragraph. When you choose to supply PlusSize.com with your personally identifying information, PlusSize.com compiles this information in a database with other PlusSize.com community members' information and Plussize.com reserves the right to transfer this information to a successor, related entity or to a third party purchasing or succeeding to PlusSize.com's assets. Further, PlusSize.com may share the postal ZIP codes of our users in the aggregate to cable and satellite companies and their affiliates for use in distributing and marketing of the PlusSize.com television network.

How can you review and correct information you submitted to the Site, unsubscribe, or opt out?
You may review, change, or delete any information you submitted to PlusSize.com by logging in and going to the "My Profile" screen. Additionally, it is optional to supply personally identifying information to use the Site. However, if you do provide PlusSize.com with personally identifying information, there are several ways you may unsubscribe from our chat rooms and message boards, and remove your information from our databases. To change your account settings, modify passwords, change newsletter subscriptions, or cancel your account login to the PlusSize.com website and choose the appropriate link from the login page.

What kinds of security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under PlusSize.com's control?
PlusSize.com uses industry standard security measures to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under PlusSize.com's control, including firewalls and other security measures. Nonetheless, due to the inherent dangers of the Internet, PlusSize.com cannot guarantee the protection of such information against loss, misuse, or alteration.

Additionally, PlusSize.com provides an opportunity for the PlusSize.com community to communicate and interact through PlusSize.com message boards and chat rooms, and through private messaging in the forums and chat rooms. PlusSize.com monitors the message boards with PlusSize.com employees and select community members known as moderators to ensure that these communications run smoothly.

A special notice to parents of children under the age of 13.
The Site is a general audience web site and is intended to be used by adults and teens (13-17). It is not intended for children under the age of 13 and PlusSize.com will not collect any personal identifiable information for such children.

Modifications to this privacy policy.
PlusSize.com reserves the right, at PlusSize.com's discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time to comply with any applicable state or federal regulations, to utilize new technologies or to improve your PlusSize.com experience, so please check back periodically to review our Privacy Policy. If PlusSize.com changes any portion of this Privacy Policy, the change will be posted in this document so that you will always know what information PlusSize.com gathers, how PlusSize.com might use that information, and to whom PlusSize.com will disclose such information. PlusSize.com will not change the use and dissemination practices related to information obtained under a prior version of this Privacy Policy without your prior consent. This Privacy Policy was last changed and posted on our Site on January 6, 2011.