Ethical web design
We have always striven to put our personal ethical principles into our business, starting with our own ethical policy:
“Imaner Consultants is a vegan-run organisation which aims to do business in a manner that does not exploit people, animals or the environment. We seek to work with like minded organisations.”
As members of Ethical Junction since its inception, and the recently formed Ethical Business Network, we believe in treating both our clients and suppliers fairly. As ethical web designers making the web accessible to people with disabilities is an important issue and we work to the W3C accessibility guidelines.
Imaner have signed up to the Green Computing charter, which covers areas such as reducing power consumption, minimising unneccessary printing and disposing of old hardware responsibly. Our old computer equipment is reconditioned through Airedale Computer recycling. This is a community project to train long-term unemployed people to refurbish computers for resale.
Working from our home office in Leeds (a Fairtrade city), Fairtrade tea and coffee are served at meetings and public transport is used to attend meetings. We operate a paper re-use and recycling scheme and compost all compostable material. Printer cartridges are recycled for charity.
Imaner bank with the Co-operative Bank who have strong ethical policies, including those covering the arms trade, human rights and animal welfare. We are also members of the broader Co-operative Group.
We have always sought to work with like minded ethical organisations and these have included many innovative leaders including: Dr Hadwen's Trust, the Ethical Investors Group, Animal Aid's Ethical Shop, Ethical Wares, Plamil Foods, the Vegan Organic Network, Doctors and Lawyers for Responsible Medicine, Veggie Vision and Vegan Store.
Liz and Andy are both vegan and run two community projects which they funded themselves - the Vegan Village and the Vegan Research Panel.
For examples of our ethical web design work please browse the special projects and website gallery.