PRIVACY & COOKIES
SIP Industrial Products and WINNTEC from SIP are committed to upholding the privacy of our customers, following all relevant data protection laws that apply within the United Kingdom. As part of our larger Privacy and Cookies policies, this page explains what information is collected and why.
For more information, contact us below.
PRIVACY INFORMATION THAT SIP COLLECTS
In running and maintaining our websites, SIP Industrial Products Limited may collect and possess, at any time, several types of data about you. Any information that is not voluntarily given is not likely to reveal any personal information, but is purely technical and analytical data. This data includes the following:
- Any account details voluntarily given by the user; includes registration, order history, support cases, and any affiliated information, through sip-group.com or other communications
- Any of the cookie formats as stated below
DISCLOSING YOUR INFORMATION
We will not, at any points, disclose or release any information of any kind to any other party outside of the company, in accordance with this Privacy Policy. However, there are a few circumstances which are deemed exceptional, in which this policy is superseded, which are as follows:
- In the event SIP Industrial Products Limited sell any portion, or all, of our business to a buyer or a third party, the buyer will then become the legal owner of any data collected or held
- Where SIP are legally required under UK law to disclose personal information, via any of the following: police, law enforcement, government agency, or otherwise
- To further protect against any fraud offences, risk of fraud, or other criminal offences.
OUR COOKIE POLICY
This Cookies policy sets out the basis on which we, SIP Industrial Products Limited, use cookies and similar or affiliated technologies on our websites, including sip-group.com, winntec.co.uk, and others.
We may update this Cookie Policy in order to keep you fully informed about our most current practices involving cookies and similar information-gathering technologies on our website. You should check this Cookie Policy each time you visit our websites in order to find out if SIP or WINNTEC from SIP’s use of cookies and / or similar technologies has changed.
This Cookie Policy is effective from 20th November 2018. We, SIP, recommend that you print a copy for your reference and records.
ABOUT COOKIES
Cookies are data files that are transferred between servers and browsers, processor memories, or hard drives (clients) to recognise a particular user’s device when said user accesses a website. They are used for a range of different purposes, such as customising a website for a user, helping a user navigate a website, improving an experience, and storing user preferences and login information.
Cookies can be classified as ‘session’ or ‘persistent’ cookies. Session cookies are placed on your browser when you access a website and last for as long as the user keeps the browser open. They expire when the browser is closed.
Persistent cookies are placed on your computer when you access a website and expire at a fixed point in time, or if the user manually deletes them, whichever occurs first.
These will be set either by our website domains or by third party domains on our behalf. Cookies set by SIP on our website domain are and will be referred to as ‘first party’ cookies. Cookies set by third party domains or set on or via our website domain on behalf of third parties are ‘third party’ cookies.
Most cookies do not usually contain any personal information. Cookies may, however, be used in combination with other held information to identify a user.
SIP and WINNTEC from SIP use first and third party cookies on our website, and both session and persistent cookies.
If you require further information about cookies in general, visit All About Cookies.
ESSENTIAL COOKIES
Essential cookies are those which are necessary for SIP to run our websites, any any essential functions on them. SIP use essential cookies for the following purposes on our websites:
- To administer our websites
- To ensure our website functions properly when a user interacts with it
- For storing information about a user shopping cart and the items placed in it
- For processing payments for goods and services a user purchases on or via our website
- For logging into password-protected areas or accessing other secure areas on our website
- For remembering information a user has inserted in a form on our website
FUNCTIONAL COOKIES
Functional cookies store information about user preferences and previous interactions with any SIP websites, and recognise a user whenever they return to a website, in order to improve experiences and personalisation. SIP use functional cookies for the following purposes on our websites:
- To recognise users when they return to our websites
- To improve user experiences of our websites
- To recognise whether users have accepts the use of cookies on our website
- To recognise the type of browsing device users have, including browser and settings, for the purpose of displaying our websites to users in an appropriate format
ANALYTICAL & PERFORMANCE COOKIES
Analytical cookies track and gather data about what a user does on our websites. SIP use analytical cookies for the following purposes on our websites:
- To analyse user access to our websites and use of any website features
- To improve our websites, including usability, functionality, content, and user experience
- To record information based on geographical location, time of access, and user devices
TARGETING COOKIES
Targeting cookies record information about user visits and use of our website, primarily for advertising purposes. SIP use targeting cookies for the following purposes on our websites:
- To display advertisements to users based on interests and to measure effectiveness
- To track if users have come to our website via advertisements that SIP have placed on a search engine or any other website, and to record user information relating to how users came to SIP, such as a geographical location, time of access, visit duration, and user device
- To remarket advertisements to users on other websites they visit
THIRD PARTY COOKIES
Third party cookies may be used on, via, or in relation to our website in order to analyse usage of our websites, and / or to display advertisements – including third party advertisements – to users and any other users of third party cookies. Third party cookies used in relation to our websites, including:
- DoubleClick uses cookies to display advertisements to users and measure effectiveness of any advertisements. Find out more about DoubleClick policy and their cookie usage.
- Google Analytics uses cookies to collect and process data about how users use websites, including for the purpose of tracking such data on an anonymous basis. Find out more on how Google uses data when users visit partners sites or apps.
- Google AdWords uses cookies linked to advertisements placed across the internet, including on third party websites. Google uses these cookies to track user access and use of our websites via such advertisements, and for the purpose of collecting other data about users. Advertisements that are displayed to users in relation to our goods and services are displayed based on the user’s usage of the website. Find out more on Google AdWords, or opt out.
- Google AdSense uses cookies linked to third party advertisements placed across the internet, including on our websites, to track user access and use of our websites via such advertisements, and to collect other user data. Advertisements that are displayed to users in relation to our goods and services are based on user usage. Third parties also use data gained from AdSense advertisement on our website when users click of them, as well as anonymous statistical data, such as the viewership of their advertisements. Find out more on Google AdSense, or opt out.
We, SIP or WINNTEC from SIP, cannot be held responsible in how third parties use information they gather from cookies.
WEB BEACONS
SIP and WINNTEC from SIP may embed web beacons in our email marketing campaigns, and on our websites. Web Beacons are small GIF image files which enable use to track user receipts of our marketing emails, how often users view our advertisements or web pages, geographical locations, IP addresses, and browsers.
Web Beacons are activated whenever a user opens a marketing email or accesses a page on our website containing a beacon. They transmit data when users view them, but are not capable of accessing any other information on a user computer. Web Beacons are not stored on a user’s hard drive unless the user has downloaded a GIF image containing them.
Some browsers, but not all, enable users to restrict the use of Web Beacons by preventing them from sending information back to their source. For example, when users choose browser settings that block cookies and trackers, or when users to do not access images containing them. By selecting a ‘do not display images’ setting in their email servers, web beacons will not be activated.
FACEBOOK PIXEL
SIP and WINNTEC from SIP may use Facebook Pixel on our website. Facebook Pixel is a tracking code which allows us to track and monitor the success of advertisements SIP use on Facebook, and to improve effectiveness of those advertisements by recording information such as the user device used to access our websites, and the user actions on our websites. SIP may use Facebook Pixel to create retargeting advertisements and create custom audiences for advertisements on Facebook and our websites.
Facebook aggregates data gathered from our use of Facebook Pixel on our website with data it gathers from other sources, in order to improve and target advertisements displayed on Facebook or other services, to improve systems, and to provide measurement services to third parties that use the advertising services of Facebook or affiliates.
Depending on your geographical location, you may be able to block Facebook Pixel by visiting Your Online Choices, selecting your country, clicking Your Ad Choices, then locating Facebook and selecting the ‘Off’ option.
You can find out more about how Facebook handles any information they collect about you and other individuals by accessing their privacy policy, which is available here.
ACCEPTING & REJECTING COOKIES
The easiest way to accept or reject some or all cookies used by a website is to adjust your choice browser settings. If you do not know how to do this, the links below contain useful information about how to adjust your settings on common browsers.
Some browsers, such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, allow you to change your settings to browse in ‘Incognito’ mode, limiting the amount of data placed on your machine and automatically deleting persistent cookies placed on your device when a browsing session has finished. There are also third party applications which can be added to browses to block or manage cookies.
You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking. You are welcome to block the use of some or all of the cookies we use on our website. However, please be aware that doing so may impair the functionality of our websites, or may render them unusable.
The SIP Cookies Policy is based on a General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/769) compliant template provided by GDPR Privacy Policy. For further information about this or any other policies, visit GDPR Privacy Policy.
The copyright of this Cookie Policy is either owned by, or licensed to, us and is protected by copyright laws around the world and copyright protection software. All intellectual property rights in this document are reserved. Where we display the GDPR Privacy Policy logo on our website, this indicates that we have adopted a privacy policy template provided by GDPR Privacy Policy as the basis for the Privacy Policy of WINNTEC from SIP and SIP Industrial Products Limited.
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