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

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