Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

Fourmere is operated by Exilier Limited. Exilier Limited is the data controller for personal data processed through fourmere.co.uk and related Fourmere business communications.

Exilier Limited is registered in England and Wales under company number 16809898. Registered office: 33 Copper Beech Road, Nuneaton, England, CV10 9FB.

2. What information we collect

The website does not currently use a contact form, customer account, checkout, analytics platform, advertising pixel or behavioural tracking technology.

If you contact us by email, we may receive the information you choose to provide, such as your name, business email address, company, role, product range and enquiry content.

For targeted business-to-business supplier and commercial-development activity, we may also obtain business contact information from your organisation's own website, official public registers, trade or industry directories, manufacturer or distributor directories, and other business sources. This may include a person's name, business role, business email address and company details where relevant to the commercial purpose.

Our web-server infrastructure may process technical request information needed to deliver and secure the website, such as IP address, date and time, requested page, browser or user-agent details, referrer and request status.

3. How we use information

We use personal data to respond to enquiries, identify and discuss relevant supplier or commercial relationships, assess prospective business relationships, operate and secure the website, maintain appropriate business records and comply with legal obligations.

Where appropriate, we may use business contact details for targeted business-to-business communications about a potential supplier or commercial relationship that is relevant to the organisation concerned. We also maintain limited suppression information where somebody asks us not to contact them again.

We do not sell personal data and we do not currently use website visitor data for advertising profiling.

4. Legal bases

Depending on the circumstances, we may process personal data where necessary for our legitimate interests in operating Fourmere, identifying and developing relevant supplier and commercial relationships, and responding to business enquiries; to take steps at your request before entering into a contract; to perform a contract; to comply with a legal obligation; or with consent where consent is required.

When we rely on legitimate interests for targeted business-to-business contact, we consider the relevance of the proposed relationship, the business context, the source of the information and the individual's rights and reasonable expectations. We do not use this basis to override consent requirements that apply under electronic-marketing rules.

5. Cookies and tracking

The current Fourmere website does not intentionally set analytics, advertising or other non-essential cookies, and it does not use localStorage or sessionStorage.

Our hosting and security infrastructure may use strictly necessary technical mechanisms required to deliver or protect the website. If we introduce non-essential analytics, advertising technologies or consent-requiring storage in future, we will update this policy and any required consent controls before enabling them.

6. Service providers

We use service providers to operate Fourmere, including website hosting and infrastructure services, Cloudflare for content-delivery and security functions, and Zoho for Fourmere business email. Those providers may process personal data only to the extent required to provide their services.

Service-provider infrastructure may involve processing in the UK, the EEA or other countries. Where a restricted transfer of personal data outside the UK occurs, an applicable lawful transfer mechanism is required, such as a UK adequacy regulation or approved contractual safeguards, as appropriate to the provider and transfer.

7. Retention

We keep enquiry and business-contact information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including relevant commercial discussions, legal obligations and legitimate business records.

Inactive prospective supplier and business-contact records are reviewed after 24 months of inactivity and are deleted or minimised unless there is an ongoing relationship, legal requirement or other documented reason to retain them. Where somebody objects to further contact, we may retain the minimum suppression information needed to respect that request.

Under the current hosting configuration, Fourmere technical web-server logs are rotated weekly with four rotated generations retained in addition to the active log, giving a typical maximum operational history of around five weeks. This may change if the security or hosting configuration changes, in which case this policy will be reviewed.

8. Your rights

UK data-protection law may give you rights including access, correction, erasure, restriction, objection and portability, depending on the circumstances.

You can object at any time to the use of your personal data for direct marketing or targeted business-development communications. If you do, we will stop that use and may retain only the minimum suppression information needed to make sure your objection is respected.

You can also complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office if you are unhappy with how your personal data is handled.

9. Contact

Privacy questions or requests can be sent to [email protected].