Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 2/3/2024

The Barbados Environmental Sustainability Fund (BESF) recognises the importance of privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information of its users, grantees, and partners. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of information we collect, how we use it, and the measures we take to ensure its security.

1. Information Collection

BESF may collect personal information in various ways, including but not limited to, when users visit our site, apply for grants, register for events, or in connection with other activities, services, features, or resources we make available. Personal information may include, but is not limited to, name, email address, mailing address, phone number, and organizational affiliations.

2. Use of Information

The information we collect is used to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

  • To process grant applications and manage projects.
  • To improve our services.
  • To send periodic emails with updates, news, or other information relevant to our programmes and opportunities.
  • To respond to inquiries, questions, and/or other requests.

3. Information Sharing

BESF does not sell, trade, or rent personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates, and advertisers for the purposes outlined above.

4. Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

5. Cookies

Our website may use “cookies” to enhance user experience. Users’ web browsers place cookies on their hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about them. Users may choose to set their web browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If they do so, note that some parts of the Site may not function properly.

6. Links to Other Websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement.

7. Changes to This Privacy Policy

BESF has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. When we do, we will post a notification on the main page of our Site and revise the updated date at the top of this page. We encourage Users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect.

8. Contacting Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us at:

The Barbados Environmental Sustainability Fund (BESF)
Address: Chancery House, High Street, St. Michael
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +1 (246) 244 1823

This document was last updated on 2/3/2024.