Privacy Policy

Kansai Pipe Industries, Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “the Company”) considers the protection of personal information to be an important social responsibility, and has established a policy for the handling of personal information (hereinafter referred to as the “Privacy Policy”), which the Company complies with in order to properly manage, use, and protect the important personal information received from customers. Based on this Privacy Policy, we will strive to establish internal systems, implement and maintain measures, and make continuous improvements.

• The Company will obtain personal information only through legal and appropriate means.
• The Company will use any personal information obtained only as needed to perform relevant business operations, and only within the scope indicated at the time the information was obtained.
• The Company will establish and appropriately implement the necessary measures to prevent any leakage, loss, falsification, etc., of personal information.
• The Company will not disclose any personal information to a third party unless either specifically authorized by the individual in question, or legally required to do so according to the laws and regulations regarding the protection of personal information.
• When entrusting the handling of personal information to a third party, the Company will ensure appropriate management and supervision.
• The Company will instruct all Company officers and employees regarding the protection of personal information to ensure the appropriate handling of all such information in day-to-day business operations.
• The Company, within reason and within the scope possible, will comply with an individual’s request to disclose, revise, delete, or suspend use of that individual’s personal information.

We acquire and use your personal information for limited purposes as cited below:

1. Responding to business related information, transactions, inquiries, contacts, etc.
2. Measuring visitor traffic and usage behavior.

We will not share your personal information with third parties except in the following cases:

1. With your prior consent, in contexts in which the party to whom the personal information is to be provided, the purpose of use, etc. have been clearly stated.
2. When we outsource all or part of the handling of personal information to a third party within the scope of the purpose of use of personal information related to our business.
3. When we are required to cooperate with a national agency, local public body, or a person or organization entrusted by either of the foregoing in executing affairs prescribed by laws and regulations, and obtaining the user’s consent is likely to impede the execution of such affairs.
4. Other cases permitted by the Act on the Protection of Personal information and other laws and regulation.

When you submit information to our website, such as your name, email address, etc., the information will be saved as a cookie in your browser. This is for your convenience, and saves you the steps of re-entering your details. The cookie data is retained for one year.

Pages on our website may contain embedded content (videos, images, social media shared content, etc.) from third parties. Embedded content retains the privacy and data collection practices of the source website.
Third-party sites may collect your data, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor communication with embedded content in accordance with their respective privacy policies. If you are using your account to log in to an embedded service’s site, your account may also track communication with the embedded content.

If you have any questions or concerns about our handling of personal information or the personal information we hold, please contact us at “Contact Us”. You may request that we notify you of the purpose of use of your personal information, disclose it, inquire about its contents, correct it, add or delete it, stop using it, delete it, or stop providing it to third parties. However, if there is a reason why the Company cannot respond to the request, the Company will explain the reason and may refuse the request. When making a request, please be aware of the following points in advance.

1. Please cooperate with our customer identification procedures.
2. We require a certain amount of time to review and explain the personal data held by us.

We may revise our privacy policy at our sole discretion. In the event we make a change that legally requires the consent of our users, said changes will only be applied to customers who consent to those changes via the method prescribed by the company. We will inform you of the content and implementation date of our revised privacy policy via our website (on this and other relevant pages), via a notification or other method deemed appropriate by the company.