privacy and cookie policy

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Privacy & Cookie Policy

1. Introduction

At Fournais, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data.
This Privacy & Cookie Policy explains how we collect, use, store and protect personal data when you visit our website, subscribe to our communications, contact us, make an enquiry or booking, or otherwise interact with Fournais and our destinations.

Depending on your interaction with us, the relevant Fournais company or destination may act as the data controller. Where processing relates to the general Fournais website or group-level
communications, the data controller is:

Fournais Holding A/S
CVR no. 28098790
Emiliekildevej 2930
2850 Klampenborg
Denmark

Email: BJ@FOURNAIS.COM

For bookings, stays, events or services at a specific destination, the company operating that destination may be the data controller. Its details will be provided during the relevant booking or
enquiry process.

2. Personal data we collect

We may collect and process the following categories of personal data:

  • Contact information, including your name, email address, telephone number and postal address.
  • Booking and transaction information, including reservations, purchases, payment status and invoicing details.
  • Information about your preferences, interests and previous interactions with Fournais.
  • Information you provide when contacting us, completing a form, participating in a survey or subscribing to our newsletter.
  • Technical information, including your IP address, browser, device type, operating system and website usage.
  • Cookie identifiers and information about how you interact with our website and communications.
  • Information necessary to accommodate dietary requirements, accessibility needs or other specific requests.

We only collect sensitive personal data when it is necessary to provide a service you have requested, and where we have an appropriate legal basis for doing so.

Payment card information may be processed directly by our payment provider. Fournais does not necessarily receive or store your complete payment card details.

3. How we use your personal data

We may use your personal data to:

  • Process and administer bookings, purchases, payments and enquiries.
  • Provide the services and experiences you have requested.
  • Communicate with you before, during and after a stay or experience.
  • Manage customer and business relationships.
  • Send newsletters and marketing communications where you have consented or where otherwise permitted by law.
  • Personalise and improve our website, communications, services and guest experience.
  • Analyse website performance and understand how visitors use our digital platforms.
  • Maintain the security and functionality of our website and systems.
  • Comply with legal, accounting and regulatory obligations.
  • Establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

4. Legal basis for processing

We process personal data on one or more of the following legal grounds:

  • Performance of a contract: when processing is necessary to manage a booking, purchase or other agreement with you.
  • Consent: for example, when you subscribe to a newsletter or accept optional cookies.
  • Legitimate interests: when necessary to operate, protect and improve our business and services, provided that your rights and interests do not override those interests.
  • Legal obligations: when processing is required under applicable legislation.
  • Protection of vital interests: in exceptional situations involving health or safety.

You may withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before the consent was withdrawn.

5. Cookies

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies. Cookies are small text files stored on your computer, mobile device or other device when you visit a website.

Cookies may be used to:

  • Ensure that the website functions correctly.
  • Remember your preferences and settings.
  • Understand how visitors use the website.
  • Measure website performance.
  • Personalise content and marketing.
  • Support advertising and campaign measurement.

We distinguish between necessary cookies and optional cookies. Necessary cookies may be placed without your consent when required for the website to function. Analytics, preference and
marketing cookies will only be placed after you have provided consent, where required by law.

You can change or withdraw your cookie consent at any time through Cookie Settings on our website. You can also delete or block cookies through your browser settings. Blocking certain cookies may affect the functionality of the website.

A current list of the cookies and third-party services used on the website should be displayed in our Cookie Declaration, which is updated through our consent-management platform.

6. Newsletter and marketing

If you subscribe to a Fournais newsletter, we may process your name, email address, language, interests and engagement with our communications.

We use this information to send relevant news, stories, invitations and offers from Fournais and, where clearly stated when you subscribe, our destinations.

You may unsubscribe at any time by selecting the unsubscribe link included in every marketing email or by contacting us.

Withdrawing from marketing communications does not prevent us from sending necessary service related messages concerning an existing booking, purchase or enquiry.

7. Sharing your personal data

We may share personal data with:

  • Companies and destinations within the Fournais group when necessary to manage your relationship with us.
  • Booking, customer relationship management, newsletter, website, analytics and payment service providers.
  • Professional advisers, auditors and IT and security providers.
  • Public authorities when required by law.
  • Business partners involved in providing a service or experience you have requested.

Our service providers may only process personal data in accordance with our instructions and applicable data-protection law, unless they act as independent data controllers.

We do not sell your personal data.

8. International transfers

Some of our service providers may process personal data outside the European Economic Area.
Where personal data is transferred to a country that has not been recognised as providing an adequate level of protection, we use appropriate safeguards, such as the European Commission’s
Standard Contractual Clauses, together with any supplementary measures considered necessary.

9. Data retention

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.

Retention periods depend on the nature of the information, our relationship with you and applicable legal requirements. For example, accounting and transaction records may be retained for the period required under applicable bookkeeping legislation.
When personal data is no longer required, it will be deleted or anonymised.

10. Data security

We use appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure, access or misuse.
Access to personal data is limited to employees, service providers and other parties who have a legitimate business need to access it.

11. Your rights

Subject to the conditions set out in applicable data-protection law, you may have the right to:

  • Request access to the personal data we process about you.
  • Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
  • Request deletion of your personal data.
  • Request restriction of processing.
  • Object to processing based on legitimate interests.
  • Object at any time to processing for direct-marketing purposes.
  • Withdraw your consent.
  • Receive certain personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.
  • Lodge a complaint with a data-protection authority.

To exercise your rights, please contact us at:

[INSERT PRIVACY OR GENERAL FOURNAIS EMAIL]

We may ask you to provide information necessary to verify your identity before responding to your request.

You may also submit a complaint to the Danish Data Protection Agency:

Datatilsynet
Carl Jacobsens Vej 35
2500 Valby
Denmark
www.datatilsynet.dk

12. Links to third-party websites

Our website may contain links to websites operated by third parties. Fournais is not responsible for the privacy practices, security or content of third-party websites. We encourage you to read their
privacy policies before providing personal data.

13. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy & Cookie Policy to reflect changes in our services, systems or legal obligations.

The latest version will always be available on our website. In the event of material changes, we may provide additional notice where appropriate.

14. Website owner and publisher

The website is owned and published by:

Fournais Group A/S
CVR no. 28098790
Emilekildevej 1
2800 Klampenborg
Denmark
Email: hello@fournais.com

A Letter from Our Founder

For most of my life, I have been driven by curiosity.
Curiosity about people, business, nature and how things work – but perhaps even more importantly, how they could work better.

Over the years, I have been fortunate enough to build successful businesses. Success, however, has a way of changing the questions you ask yourself. At some point, it is no longer about what else you can build. It becomes about what you want to leave behind.

That question became the beginning of Fournais.

Not because I wanted to create another company, but because I wanted to create places that demonstrate a different way forward. Places where nature, business and people are no longer seen as separate, but as parts of the same living system.
For too long, we have accepted the idea that protecting nature requires sacrifice – that responsibility comes at the expense of comfort, beauty or quality of life. I have never believed that. I believe the opposite.

When we work with nature instead of against it, everything becomes stronger.

Healthier landscapes produce healthier food. Thriving ecosystems create resilient communities. Beautiful places inspire people to care for them. Responsible businesses can restore far more than they consume.

When I first came to Vejrø, it was a forgotten island. The buildings were deteriorating, nature had been neglected and opportunities had disappeared. It reminded me that decline is rarely inevitable – it is simply the result of countless decisions made over time. If that is true, then regeneration is also a decision. One made every single day.

Today, Vejrø tells a different story. Not because the work is finished, but because every year the island becomes healthier, richer and more alive than the year before. To me, that is the true meaning of regeneration. Not perfection, but continuous improvement.

That philosophy now guides everything we do at Fournais. Whether we restore landscapes in Denmark, cultivate ancient olive groves in Mallorca, develop renewable energy systems, create places for hospitality and wellbeing, or establish environments where knowledge can be tested and shared, I do not see separate businesses. I see one connected ecosystem, where soil, water, energy, food, biodiversity, human health and knowledge constantly influence one another.

Nature has always understood this. Perhaps it is time that we do too.

Fournais exists to explore what becomes possible when we stop treating nature as a resource and begin recognising it as the system that sustains us. Not through theories or promises, but through real places that people can experience. Places where ideas become landscapes. Where agriculture restores biodiversity. Where energy creates resilience. Where hospitality contributes to wellbeing. And where every project becomes an opportunity to learn, improve and inspire others.

My hope has never been to build something extraordinary for ourselves. It has always been to build something meaningful that others can learn from.

If Fournais can help demonstrate that healthier ecosystems, stronger communities and better businesses are not competing ambitions, but outcomes of the same well-designed system, then we have achieved something worthwhile.

Because I believe the future is not something we inherit.
It is something we cultivate.

Kim Fournais
Founder, Fournais