Privacy Policy

This website is operated by John Abril, a dual-licensed California Real Estate Broker (CA DRE #01060119) and Mortgage Broker (MLO NMLS #280222), doing business as Real Estate and Lending, Simplified™ (DBA BirdEye Loans; Co. NMLS #2827760, CA DRE #02439951; until 09/13/2026 also BirdEye Loans, Inc., Co. NMLS #1846010, CA DRE #01527337). Real estate services are offered through REAL Brokerage / MAD Realty Co. Office: 3200 E Guasti Rd Suite 100, Ontario, CA 91761 · (909) 635-5813 · john@birdeyeloans.com.

We collect: contact identifiers you provide (name, email, mailing address, phone number); transaction details (property preferences, budget, timeline, home value, loan purpose); financial and government information needed to process a mortgage (such as income, assets, Social Security number, and credit information) only when you choose to apply; and technical data collected automatically (IP address, browser type, and similar website-usage information). We may also receive information from real estate and lending platforms you engage with.

To respond to your inquiry; provide the real estate and mortgage services you request; process and service transactions; communicate with you (including by SMS where you have opted in); send market and service updates unless you opt out; protect against fraud and secure our systems; comply with legal and regulatory obligations; and improve our website through aggregate analytics.

When you provide your mobile number and check the SMS consent box, you agree to receive text messages from John Abril — Real Estate and Lending, Simplified™ (DBA BirdEye Loans), sent from (909) 298-1501. Messages may include initial responses to your inquiry, property and market updates, appointment confirmations and reminders, and loan-status updates. Message frequency varies (up to about 10 messages per month during an active transaction). Message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to opt out at any time, or HELP for help.

We do not sell or share your mobile phone number or your SMS/text-messaging opt-in consent with any third parties or affiliates. No mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes at any time. Your consent to receive text messages is not a condition of purchasing any property or obtaining any loan, and opting out will not affect the real estate or mortgage services we provide to you.

Sensitive financial information (such as your Social Security number and credit information) is collected only when necessary to evaluate or process a mortgage transaction and is protected in accordance with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) Safeguards Rule. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards designed to protect this information.

We do not sell or rent your personal information, and we do not share it with third parties for their own marketing. We share information only: (a) with service providers and subcontractors who help us operate (for example, website hosting and security via Cloudflare, lead routing via Make.com, CRM via Follow Up Boss, scheduling via Calendly, anti-spam via Cloudflare Turnstile, and mapping/reviews via Google) under contracts that limit their use of the data to supporting us; (b) with parties needed to complete your transaction (such as lenders, processors, escrow, and title) when you proceed; and (c) when required by law or to protect rights and safety. As stated above, mobile/SMS opt-in information is never shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes.

We use cookies and similar technologies in three ways:

• Necessary — security checks (Cloudflare Turnstile), saved homes and sign-in, and the embedded scheduling calendar. The site does not work properly without these.
• Analytics — Google Analytics, used in aggregate to understand which pages people find useful.
• Advertising — the Meta (Facebook) Pixel and Conversions API. These record page views and form submissions on this site and send them to Meta so we can measure our advertising and reach people who have visited. What is sent may include the page you were on, your IP address and browser type, and — if you submit a form — a hashed (scrambled) version of your email address and phone number. We do not send Meta your Social Security number, loan details, or any information from a mortgage application.

You can control cookies through your browser settings; disabling some may affect site features. To turn off the advertising category specifically, see Your Privacy Choices below.

We use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards to protect your information against unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. No method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

We retain personal information for as long as needed to provide services and to meet legal, tax, and regulatory requirements (for example, mortgage application records are generally retained for at least three years as required by federal law).

California residents may request to know the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected, request deletion or correction, and opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information.

We do not sell your personal information for money, and we never sell or share leads with other agents or lenders. California law, however, also treats disclosing personal information to an advertising company for cross-context behavioral advertising as “sharing” — even when no money changes hands. The Meta advertising tools described in Section 7 are that kind of sharing. You can switch them off at any time, and doing so does not affect any other part of the site.

We honor the Global Privacy Control (GPC). If your browser or a privacy extension sends a GPC signal, we treat it as an opt-out of sharing and the advertising tools are not loaded at all.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at john@birdeyeloans.com or (909) 635-5813. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights.

Use the button below to turn off advertising-related sharing for this browser. Your choice is stored on this device, so you will need to set it again on a different browser or device.

Turning this off stops this site from loading Meta’s advertising tools and stops us sending your form submissions to Meta. It does not delete information Meta already holds — for that, use the privacy controls in your Meta account.

We are committed to the Fair Housing Act, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), and do not discriminate on the basis of any class protected by federal or California law. Equal Housing Opportunity / Equal Housing Lender.

This website is intended for adults and is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18.

John Abril — Real Estate and Lending, Simplified™ · 3200 E Guasti Rd Suite 100, Ontario, CA 91761 · (909) 635-5813 · john@birdeyeloans.com · uplandrealsimplified.com. Verify licensing at www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org and www.dre.ca.gov.