Welding Pipe Industry s. r. o.
Last Updated: 26 February 2025
At Welding Pipe Industry s. r. o., we are committed to protecting your personal data and your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website wpi.sk, communicate with us, or utilize our services.
Please read this policy carefully. By accessing our services, you acknowledge the practices described in this policy.
1. Who We Are
Welding Pipe Industry s. r. o. (referred to as „the Company,“ „we,“ „us,“ or „our“) acts as the Data Controller for your personal data.
- Company Address: Majerovce 120, 094 09 Majerovce, Slovak Republic
- Company ID No. (IČO): 53472586
- Company VAT No. (IČDPH): SK2121379909
- Email: info@wpi.sk
- Phone: +421908036364, +421918309640
2. What Data We Collect
We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you. We have categorized these as follows:
- Identity Data: First name, last name, title/position, and company name.
- Contact Data: Billing address, delivery address, email address, and telephone numbers.
- Technical Data: Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types, operating system, and platform.
- Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, products, and services.
- Marketing and Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.
- Financial Data: Bank account and payment details necessary to process transactions (note: we do not store full credit card details; these are handled by secure payment processors).
3. How We Collect Your Data
We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including:
- Direct Interactions: You may give us your Identity and Contact Data by filling in forms on our site, corresponding with us via phone, email, or requesting a quote for welding pipes or services.
- Automated Technologies: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment and browsing actions. We collect this data by using cookies and other similar technologies.
- Third Parties: We may receive personal data about you from third parties such as analytics providers (e.g., Google Analytics) or credit reference agencies.
4. How We Use Your Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
| Purpose/Activity | Type of Data | Lawful Basis for Processing |
|---|---|---|
| To register you as a new customer or supplier | Identity, Contact | Performance of a contract with you |
| To process and deliver your order (including managing payments and collecting money) | Identity, Contact, Financial, Transaction | Performance of a contract; Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts) |
| To manage our relationship with you (notifying you about changes, asking for reviews) | Identity, Contact, Profile | Performance of a contract; Necessary to comply with a legal obligation; Necessary for our legitimate interests |
| To administer and protect our business and website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing) | Identity, Contact, Technical | Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of IT services, network security) |
| To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you | Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage | Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business) |
| To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, and customer relationships | Technical, Usage | Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products/services, to keep our website updated and relevant) |
5. Disclosure of Your Data
We may share your personal data with the following parties for the purposes set out in this policy:
- Internal Third Parties: Other companies within our corporate group (if applicable) acting as joint controllers or processors.
- External Third Parties:
- Service providers acting as processors who provide IT, system administration, and payment services.
- Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services.
- Tax authorities, regulators, and other authorities who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
6. International Transfers
Many of our external third parties are based outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by implementing specific contractual clauses approved by the European Commission.
7. Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. We limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, and contractors who have a business need to know.
8. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements.
- By law, we must keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, and Financial Data) for 10 years after they cease being customers for tax and legal purposes.
9. Your Legal Rights (GDPR)
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data:
- The right to access your personal data.
- The right to rectification of inaccurate personal data.
- The right to erasure (to be forgotten) – this does not apply where we have a legal obligation to retain the data (e.g., tax records).
- The right to restrict processing of your personal data.
- The right to data portability (to receive your data in a structured, commonly used format).
- The right to object to processing of your personal data (including processing for direct marketing).
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at gdpr@wpi.sk .
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, specifically in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work, or place of the alleged infringement. In the Slovak Republic, this is the Office for Personal Data Protection of the Slovak Republic (Úrad na ochranu osobných údajov Slovenskej republiky).
10. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.
11. Changes to This Policy
We keep our privacy policy under regular review. Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes.