
Privacy Policy
Last Updated: May 1, 2025
1. Introduction
BGP Real Estate ("we", "our", or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you interact with our services, including through our website, lead generation campaigns on platforms like LinkedIn, and other business interactions.
2. Information We Collect
2.1 Personal Information
Name
Email address
Phone number
Company name and job title
Business address
Professional interests and requirements
Details relating to appointments (for example, who referred you)
2.2 Website and Usage Information
This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:
Information about your browser, network, and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address
Browser type
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:
Clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamps
3. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data (GDPR)
For individuals in the European Economic Area (EEA), we process personal data on the following legal bases:
Your consent
Fulfillment of a contract with you
Compliance with our legal obligations
Our legitimate interests, which do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms
We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
4. How We Collect Information
We collect information through:
Direct submission via forms on our website
Lead generation campaigns on platforms like LinkedIn
Email communications
Phone conversations
Your interactions with our content and services
Cookies and similar tracking technologies
Appointment booking on our website
5. Website Hosting and Analytics
5.1 Squarespace as Website Host
This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Web pages you view while on this website
Your IP address
Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.
5.2 Analytics Sharing
We share website analytics information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
6. Cookies and Similar Technologies
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.
These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
7. How We Use Your Information
We use your information for the following purposes:
To provide and maintain our services
To notify you about changes to our services
To allow you to participate in interactive features of our services
To provide customer support
To gather analysis or valuable information to improve our services
To monitor the usage of our services
To detect, prevent, and address technical issues
To process and manage appointments booked through our website
To send you promotional communications about our services
To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests
7.1 Marketing Communications
We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email.
7.2 Telecommunications and Marketing Communications Compliance
Do Not Call Registry
We comply with the National Do Not Call Registry regulations
We maintain an internal Do Not Call list for individuals who request not to be contacted
We honor opt-out requests within 30 days as required by law
You can register your phone number with the National Do Not Call Registry at donotcall.gov
CAN-SPAM Act Compliance
All marketing emails include our physical address
Each email provides a clear method to opt-out of future communications
We process opt-out requests promptly, within 10 business days
Email subject lines accurately reflect the content of our messages
We clearly identify marketing communications as such
RingCentral Usage
We use RingCentral as our telecommunications service provider
Call data may be stored and processed by RingCentral according to their privacy policy
Call recordings, if any, will be disclosed to you at the beginning of the call
For more information on how RingCentral handles data, please refer to RingCentral's Privacy Policy (https://www.ringcentral.com/legal/privacy-notice.html)
8. LinkedIn Lead Generation Campaigns
When you engage with our lead generation campaigns on LinkedIn, we collect information provided through LinkedIn's lead forms. This information is processed according to:
LinkedIn's privacy policy
The consent you provide when submitting the lead form
Our legitimate business interests in providing relevant services
We retain this information for a period of 12 months, after which it is either deleted or anonymized, unless a business relationship has been established.
9. Appointment Booking
When you schedule an appointment by booking on this website, we collect personal information from you to complete the booking. We may collect information like your:
Name
Email address
Phone number
Details relating to your appointment (for example, who referred you)
Additional information provided
We share this information with Microsoft, our scheduling service provider, so that they can provide online booking services to us.
10. Disclosure of Your Information
We may share your information with:
Service providers who perform services on our behalf (including Squarespace, RingCentral, and Microsoft)
Professional advisors, such as lawyers, auditors, and insurers
Business partners with whom we may jointly offer products or services
Third parties in connection with a business transaction such as a merger or acquisition
Legal authorities when required by law
We do not sell your personal information to third parties.
10.1 International Data Transfers
We may transfer your personal data to countries outside your country of residence, including to countries that may not provide the same level of data protection. When we do so, we implement appropriate safeguards in accordance with applicable law.
11. Data Security
We implement appropriate security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
11.1 Data Breach Notification
In the event of a data breach that compromises your personal information, we will notify you and relevant authorities as required by applicable law.
12. Your Data Protection Rights
12.1 GDPR Rights (for EEA Residents)
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have the following rights:
Access to your personal information
Correction of inaccurate or incomplete information
Erasure of your personal information
Restriction of processing of your personal information
Objection to the processing of your personal information
Data portability
Withdrawal of consent
12.2 CCPA/CPRA Rights (for California Residents)
If you are a California resident, you have the following rights:
Know what personal information we have collected about you in the past 12 months
Delete personal information we have collected from you
Opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information
Non-discrimination for exercising your CCPA rights
To exercise these rights, please contact us using the details provided in the "Contact Us" section.
13. Third-Party Links
Our website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
14. Children's Privacy
Our services are not intended for individuals under the age of 18, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
15. 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 and updating the "Last Updated" date.
16. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
BGP Real Estate
1806 W Cuyler Ave, Suite 2L
Chicago, IL 60613
