Cookie Policy
Last updated: August 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Partners in Packaging Machine Systems Limited trading as PiP Automation uses cookies and similar technologies on the PiP Automation website.
It should be read together with our Privacy Policy.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files stored on your device when you visit a website.
They can perform a range of functions, including:
- allowing a website to operate correctly;
- maintaining security;
- remembering settings or preferences;
- understanding how visitors use a website;
- enabling video or other embedded content; and
- supporting advertising or marketing technologies.
Similar technologies, such as local storage, pixels, tags and scripts, may perform comparable functions.
For simplicity, this Policy refers to these technologies collectively as cookies.
2. Who operates this website?
This website is operated by:
Partners in Packaging Machine Systems Limited, trading as PiP Automation.
Registered in England and Wales. Company No. 07529045.
Registered Office:
7 Southgate Industrial Park Green Lane Heywood OL10 1ND United Kingdom.
Email: sales@pipautomation.com
3. How we use cookies
We may use cookies in the following categories.
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are required for functions such as:
- website operation;
- security;
- fraud prevention;
- network management;
- remembering privacy or cookie choices; and
- other functionality necessary to provide the website or a service requested by you.
Where a cookie is genuinely necessary for these purposes, consent is not normally required.
You cannot disable strictly necessary cookies through our cookie preference tool where doing so would prevent the website from operating correctly.
You may be able to block them through your browser, but parts of the website may then fail to function.
Functional cookies
Functional cookies may allow the website to remember choices or provide enhanced functionality.
Examples could include:
- language or display preferences;
- remembering user choices; or
- enhanced embedded content.
Where consent is required for these technologies, they will not be activated until you give that consent.
Analytics cookies
Analytics technologies help us understand how visitors use the website.
They may provide information such as:
- which pages are visited;
- how visitors arrived at the website;
- how long people spend on pages;
- which devices or browsers are used;
- whether errors occur; and
- how visitors move around the site.
We may use this information to improve the website and understand which content is useful to visitors.
Where analytics technologies require consent, they will remain disabled unless and until you choose to accept them.
Marketing cookies
We may in future use marketing or advertising technologies to understand the effectiveness of campaigns or to help us show relevant business advertising.
These could include technologies associated with platforms such as LinkedIn, Google or other advertising providers.
Marketing cookies will not be activated before consent where consent is required.
4. Video and embedded content
Pages on our website may contain videos or content delivered through PiP’s own website or through third-party platforms.
Third-party embedded services can sometimes place cookies or collect technical information when content is loaded or played.
Where such technologies are not strictly necessary and require consent, we will configure them so that they are not loaded or activated before the appropriate choice has been made.
Where practical, we may use privacy-enhanced embedding options.
5. WordPress
Our website is built using WordPress technology.
WordPress, Automattic or associated hosting and security services may use cookies or similar technologies required for matters such as:
- website operation;
- administration;
- security;
- load balancing;
- fraud prevention; and
- remembering relevant user or privacy preferences.
Cookies relating only to website administrators or logged-in WordPress users are not generally relevant to ordinary website visitors.
Where WordPress-related functionality introduces non-essential visitor cookies, those technologies will be managed through our consent controls where required.
6. Contact forms
Submitting information through a contact, enquiry, support or tray-testing form does not by itself mean that you have agreed to analytics or marketing cookies.
Information submitted through forms is handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
Any cookies technically necessary to submit, secure or protect a form may be treated as essential where legally permitted.
7. Our cookie consent system
When you first visit the website, you may be given choices regarding non-essential cookies.
Where consent is required, our intention is that you will be able to:
- Accept non-essential cookies;
- Reject non-essential cookies; or
- Manage your preferences by category.
Non-essential cookies requiring consent should not be activated before you make a positive choice.
Rejecting non-essential cookies should be as straightforward as accepting them.
You can change or withdraw your consent later using the Cookie Settings link available on the website.
Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing which took place before consent was withdrawn.
8. Current cookies
The exact cookies used by the website may change as the site is developed and as services are added or removed.
| Cookie / technology | Provider | Purpose | Category | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consent cookies (cmplz_banner-status, cmplz_functional, cmplz_statistics, cmplz_preferences, cmplz_marketing, cmplz_policy_id, cmplz_consented_services) | PiP Automation (Complianz consent plugin, first party) | Record whether you have made a cookie choice and which categories you allowed or refused. | Strictly necessary | 365 days |
| WordPress operational cookies | WordPress.com (Automattic) | Sign in, security and site operation. These are mainly set for team members who log in to manage the website; a short lived test cookie may be used to check that your browser accepts cookies. | Strictly necessary | Session to 1 year |
| Jetpack Stats | Automattic | Counts page views so we can see which pages are useful. It runs only after you accept statistics cookies, and it does not place an identifying cookie on your device. | Analytics (consent based) | Not applicable |
We do not use marketing or advertising cookies on this website. The videos on the website are hosted on our own website and do not set third party cookies.
The cookie preference tool may provide a more detailed and automatically updated list of the individual cookies operating on the website.
9. Third-party services
Where we use third-party analytics, video, advertising or other online services, those providers may process information collected by their technologies.
Depending upon the final website configuration, such providers could include website hosting, analytics, video or business-marketing platforms.
We will identify relevant third parties in our cookie preference tool or this Policy where required.
Third-party providers may have their own privacy and cookie policies explaining their use of information.
10. International processing
Some providers of online technology operate internationally and may process information outside the United Kingdom.
Where the use of cookies involves personal information, transfers will be handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable UK data protection requirements.
11. How long cookies remain on your device
Cookies may be:
Session cookies – deleted when you close your browser; or
Persistent cookies – retained for a defined period or until you delete them.
We aim to use cookie durations that are proportionate to the purpose of the technology.
The specific duration of individual cookies will be shown in our cookie table or cookie preference system where appropriate.
12. Browser controls
Most browsers allow you to view, delete or block cookies through browser settings.
Blocking all cookies may affect the operation of some website functions.
Browser settings operate separately from the consent controls provided by our website.
13. Do Not Track and similar browser signals
Browser privacy features and industry standards continue to develop.
Where applicable law or technology requires us to recognise a particular browser-based privacy signal, we will configure the website accordingly.
14. Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy where:
- website functionality changes;
- new services or plugins are installed;
- analytics or marketing systems change;
- cookies are added or removed; or
- applicable law or regulatory guidance changes.
The latest version will always be available on the website.
15. Contact us
If you have questions about our use of cookies or similar technologies, please contact:
Partners in Packaging Machine Systems Limited trading as PiP Automation 7 Southgate Industrial Park Green Lane Heywood OL10 1ND United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 (0)1706 369000 Email: sales@pipautomation.com