Effective Date: [2025-11-25]
1. Introduction
Welcome to Banana Beach Belize (“we,” “our,” or “us”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting the personal information you share with us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you visit our website bananabeachbelize.com (the “Site”).
2. Information We Collect
A. Information You Voluntarily Provide
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services. The personal information we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Site, specifically through our pop-up contact forms.
This information may include:
- Name
- Email Address
- Phone Number
- Any specific inquiry details or messages you send regarding resort bookings.
B. Information Automatically Collected (Google Analytics)
We use Google Analytics via Google Tag Manager to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website.
This data may include:
- Your IP address (anonymized where possible)
- Browser type and version
- Operating system
- Referral source
- Length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths.
Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
3. Comments and User Accounts
Our website is built on WordPress; however, we have disabled user registration and the comments section.
- No User Accounts: We do not allow users to create accounts on our website.
- No Comments: We do not accept comments on our blog posts or pages. Therefore, we do not collect data typically associated with comments (such as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string for spam detection).
4. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for specific business purposes:
- To Facilitate Sales and Bookings: We use the details provided in our contact forms to respond to your inquiries, check availability, and facilitate room bookings.
- To Improve Our Website: We use data from Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our site, which helps us improve the user experience and our marketing efforts.
5. Cookies
A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser.
- Necessary Cookies: As this is a WordPress site, strictly necessary cookies may be used to ensure the website functions correctly.
- Analytics Cookies: We use cookies provided by Google Analytics to track visitor usage.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, some portions of our Site may not function properly.
6. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, maps). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor had visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.
7. Data Retention
We retain personal information collected via our contact forms only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy policy (specifically for communicating regarding bookings), unless a longer retention period is required by law.
8. Data Security
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, please remember that we cannot guarantee that the internet itself is 100% secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Site is at your own risk.
9. Contact Us
If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may email us at:
Banana Beach Belize: San Pedro Town, Ambergris Caye, Belize
Email: info@sunrisrealtybelize.com
Phone: +501-226-3737
