Privacy Policy

This Policy applies to information collected through our website and through related interactions — phone calls, text messages, emails, online forms, live chat, and in-person meetings — in connection with our real estate, construction, ADU, restaurant-buildout, permitting, and financing services.

Some of our services are also governed by separate written agreements and notices. For mortgage, lending, and certain real-estate brokerage relationships, the federal Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and the separate financial-privacy notice we provide at application govern your nonpublic personal financial information; where that notice conflicts with this Policy as to such information, that notice controls. Construction, brokerage, and financing engagements are also governed by their own signed contracts, which control over this website.

This Policy does not apply to third-party websites, platforms, or services that we do not own or control, even when we link to them.

We collect the following categories of personal information, depending on how you interact with us. You can choose not to provide certain information, but doing so may prevent us from responding to your request or providing a service.

Information you provide to us directly:

• Contact details — your name, phone number, email address, mailing or property address, and preferred language.
• Project and property information — the service you are interested in, project scope, budget range, timeline, property address and characteristics, and any details you include in your message.
• Financing and application information — information you choose to share when you inquire about loans or financing, and employment or trade history when you apply for a job with us.
• Communications — the contents of forms, emails, text messages, chat messages, call notes, reviews, and other correspondence with us.

Information we collect automatically when you use the site:

• Device and browser information — IP address, device type, operating system, browser type, and language settings.
• Usage information — pages viewed, links clicked, referring website, dates and times of access, and similar analytics data.
• Approximate location — a general location derived from your IP address (not precise GPS location).
• Cookies and similar technologies — small files and identifiers used to operate the site, remember preferences, and measure traffic (see Section 5).

Information we receive from third parties:

• Referrals and partners who connect you with us.
• Public records and property-data sources used in real-estate and construction work (for example, county assessor and permit records).
• Service providers, analytics providers, and review or social-media platforms.

Sensitive personal information. We do not seek sensitive personal information through the website. If you voluntarily provide it in the course of a financing or real-estate transaction (for example, financial-account information or a government identifier needed for a loan application), we collect and use it only as necessary to provide the service you requested and as permitted by law, and we do not use or disclose it for purposes beyond those.

For reference, the information above corresponds to these categories under the California Consumer Privacy Act: identifiers; customer records (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80); commercial information; internet or other electronic network activity; geolocation data; professional or employment-related information; financial information; and inferences drawn from the above. We do not knowingly collect the personal information of children (see Section 12).

We use personal information for the following business and commercial purposes:

• Respond to your inquiries and provide the estimates, consultations, and information you request.
• Provide, manage, and complete the real-estate, construction, ADU, restaurant-buildout, permitting, and financing services you engage us for.
• Communicate with you about your inquiry, project, appointments, and account — including by phone, text message, and email (see Section 6).
• Send you marketing and follow-up communications where permitted, which you can opt out of at any time.
• Operate, maintain, secure, and improve our website and services, including analytics and troubleshooting.
• Detect, prevent, and investigate fraud, abuse, security incidents, and unlawful activity.
• Comply with our legal, tax, licensing, accounting, and recordkeeping obligations.
• Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims, and enforce our agreements and this Policy.
• Any other purpose disclosed to you at the time of collection or to which you consent.

We share personal information only as described below. We require recipients who act on our behalf to protect your information and to use it only for the purposes we specify.

• Service providers and processors who support our operations — for example, customer-relationship and lead-management tools, email-delivery providers, analytics providers, communications providers, and website hosting.
• Project partners needed to deliver the services you request — for example, subcontractors and tradespeople, designers, architects and engineers, lenders and loan investors, title and escrow companies, appraisers and inspectors, insurers, and government or permitting agencies.
• Professional advisors such as our attorneys, accountants, and auditors.
• Legal, safety, and compliance recipients — when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to comply with the law, a subpoena, or other legal process; to enforce our agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of BARC, our clients, or others.
• A successor entity in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or sale of all or part of our assets, subject to this Policy.
• Other parties with your consent or at your direction.

We do not sell your personal information for money, and we have not sold personal information in the preceding 12 months. We also do not "share" your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising as those terms are defined under California law, except to the limited extent that analytics or advertising cookies may be considered "sharing"; you can opt out as described in Sections 5 and 7.

We use cookies and similar technologies to operate the site, remember your preferences, and understand how the site is used. These include strictly necessary cookies, preference cookies, and analytics cookies.

When enabled, we use Google Analytics 4 with IP-address anonymization to measure traffic and improve the site. Google processes this data under its own terms; you can install Google's opt-out browser add-on to prevent Google Analytics from collecting your data.

You can block or delete cookies through your browser settings; the site remains usable without non-essential cookies. We treat a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal from your browser as a valid request to opt out of any "sharing" of your information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

When you provide your telephone number and submit a form, call, or text us, you give your prior express consent for BARC and the agents working on our behalf to contact you at that number — by live phone call, by text message (SMS/MMS), and using automated dialing technology and prerecorded or artificial-voice messages — about your inquiry, your project, transactional and service updates, scheduling, and related offers.

• Consent to receive marketing calls or texts is not a condition of purchasing any goods or services from us.
• Message frequency varies based on your activity and our communications with you.
• Message and data rates may apply, depending on your mobile plan and carrier.
• You can opt out of text messages at any time by replying STOP; reply HELP for assistance. After you opt out, we may send a single confirmation message. We will continue to honor opt-out requests as required by law, although we may still send transactional messages necessary to an active project or transaction.
• Mobile carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.

For email, every marketing email we send includes an unsubscribe link, and we will honor your opt-out as required by the CAN-SPAM Act. Transactional and service messages relating to an active engagement may continue regardless of your marketing preferences.

If you are a California resident, you have the following rights regarding your personal information, subject to certain exceptions:

• Right to know and access — to request the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the sources, the purposes, and the categories of recipients.
• Right to delete — to request deletion of personal information we collected from you.
• Right to correct — to request correction of inaccurate personal information.
• Right to opt out — to opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of personal information (note: we do not sell your information).
• Right to limit — to limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information to what is necessary to provide the services you requested.
• Right to non-discrimination — we will not discriminate or retaliate against you for exercising any of these rights.

The categories of personal information we have collected and disclosed for a business purpose in the preceding 12 months are described in Sections 2 and 4. We have not sold personal information.

To exercise your rights, contact us using the details in Section 17. We will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before responding, and we may decline requests where we cannot verify you or where an exception applies. You may use an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf, provided the agent supplies proof of authorization and we can verify your identity. We will acknowledge your request within 10 business days and respond within 45 calendar days, with one 45-day extension where reasonably necessary.

Shine the Light. We do not disclose personal information to third parties for those third parties' own direct-marketing purposes within the meaning of California Civil Code § 1798.83.

Residents of other U.S. states that have comprehensive privacy laws may have similar rights to access, correct, delete, or obtain a copy of their personal information, and to opt out of certain processing. To exercise any such rights, contact us using Section 17, and we will respond as required by applicable law.

Because we offer mortgage, lending, and real-estate brokerage services (CSLB #1056408, DRE #02101262, NMLS #2318863), some information you give us is “nonpublic personal information” protected by the federal Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. We describe how that information is collected, used, shared, and protected in our Financial Privacy Notice, which we also provide when you apply for financing or enter a brokerage relationship. That notice governs your nonpublic personal financial information and controls over this Policy to the extent of any conflict.

We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Policy, to provide our services, and to comply with our legal, tax, licensing, and recordkeeping obligations. Construction, real-estate, and lending records are subject to statutory retention periods under California and federal law and may be retained for the periods those laws require. When information is no longer needed, we delete, destroy, or de-identify it. We may retain information longer when necessary to resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, or comply with a legal hold.

We maintain reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information against loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the internet and no method of electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. You provide information to us at your own risk and are responsible for keeping any account credentials confidential. If you believe your information has been compromised, contact us immediately; we will investigate and provide notice of a security incident where required by law.

Our website and services are intended for adults and are not directed to children under 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you believe a child has provided us personal information, contact us and we will delete it as required by law.

Our site may link to or integrate third-party websites and services, such as city and state agency portals, mapping tools, review platforms, and social media. We provide these for your convenience and do not control them. Their collection and use of your information is governed by their own privacy policies, and we are not responsible for their content or practices. Review their policies before providing information.

We operate in the United States, and we collect, process, and store information in the United States. If you access the site or provide information from outside the United States, you understand and consent to the transfer of your information to, and its processing in, the United States, where data-protection laws may differ from those of your location.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will post the revised version here and update the "Last updated" date above. For material changes, we will provide additional notice where required by law. Your continued use of the site or our services after the revised Policy takes effect constitutes your acceptance of the changes.

This Privacy Policy and the website are provided in good faith and on an "as is" and "as available" basis. We do not warrant that the website will be uninterrupted, error-free, or completely secure.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Bay Area Realty and Construction Inc. and its owners, officers, employees, contractors, and agents will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss arising out of unauthorized access to or use of information that is beyond our reasonable control, arising from or related to your use of the website or this Policy. Nothing in this Policy limits any liability that cannot be limited or excluded under applicable law, including your rights under California privacy law.

This Privacy Policy is incorporated into, and should be read together with, our Terms of Service, which govern your use of this website.

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise your privacy rights, contact us: