Papillon Graphics & "Manchester UK"

Papillon Graphics and "Manchester UK" 9formerly known as "Manchester 2004" will endeavour to apply the following Code of Ethics to this website, and all and any entries contained herein should conform to this code.

• We believe that, in general and with few notable exceptions, the quality and standards of material and presentation found on the Internet is very poor, and we are therefore committed to raising, establishing and maintaining an acceptably higher standard than that generally found.
• Much of the material found on the Internet is trivial, derivative, plagiaristic or downright stolen. We frown on such practices and are committed to the creation of a website which has real and original value and that enriches the Internet community.
• We believe that information is intrinsically a valuable commodity, and that all information should be free, and freely available. We believe in people who are informed rather than blinkered.
• We shall make every effort to comply with local, state, federal and international laws regarding fair trade and business practices. This includes the relevant COPPA Act in the USA (See our Privacy Policy), and United Kingdom Laws such as the Data Protection Act, Computer Misuse Act, Obscene Publications Act, etc.
• We absolutely endorse and comply with all regulations prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, disability or age, and we shall make no discrimination of any kind on our website.
• We will honour and respect the intellectual rights and property of others.
• Our website will be free of pornography and/or sexual adult content, so as to be appropriately accessible to people of all ages and offensive to none.
• Access to our website will remain free and not require any payment, subscription of membership to access it.
• Our website will remain "family friendly" and be suitable and appropriate for people of any age or sensitivity.
• We want our website to be accessible to the widest possible audience - to this end we have tested it in a variety of browsers, and are confident that it can be accessed at the lowest reasonable specification of 800 x 600 pixels resolution and in both Internet Explorer version 5x and Netscape Navigator v4x.
• Our website will have no political, religious or sectarian bias (and will refuse to publish any material that encourages such attitudes), but will endeavour to provide an equal forum to all persuasions.
• We agree to exhibit the highest levels of professionalism and integrity online.
• We wholeheartedly disapprove of unsolicited e-mail (so-called UCE or "spam") and the flimsy pretexts some webmasters make to send unsolicited email.
• We feel committed to the promotion and upkeep of standards in writing of the English language. For us this means UK English - not through any misguided sense of superiority or snobbery, nor because it is in any way better than US, Australian, pigeon, Patois, or any other version or dialect of the English language - but simply because that's where we come from and it's our natural and obvious choice, and, for better or worse, it's the way we speak it. This means that spellings used on our website will be in UK English (eg. words will end in "…ise" rather than "…ize", "honour" and "flavour", rather than "honor" or "flavor", "programme" rather than "program", etc).
• Like it or not, we are obliged to seek advertising revenue to pay the rent, but we promise to keep these to an unavoidable minimum, to keep such advertisements low down on a page so as not to impede page loading, and to ensure that page content remains of primary importance.
• We believe that "Content" is of paramount importance. We have nothing against good graphics and attractive interfaces, in fact, we come from a Graphic Design background and thus we actively applaud them, but this must never be at the expense of accessing information. Information is primarily what people access the Internet to find - we believe that our most important function is therefore to provide information directly and clearly.
• We are committed to maintaining a website that exhibits the following characteristics:
  
  
  1. Usefulness of information;
  2. Ease of navigation within the site;
  3. Reasonably fast response and page loading time;
  4. Readability and originality;
  5. Friendly layout;
  6. Consistent layout;
  7. Attractive, uncluttered low-key layout;
  8. Use of available technology, but nothing that impedes or hinders accessing information;
  9. No distracting flashes, consoles or pop-ups;
  10. Banners and advertisements will always be of secondary importance to page content;
  11. Good listings on major search engines;
  12. Every topic accessible where possible within two clicks;
  13. Graphics and pictures optimised for good resolution and fast downloading;
  14. Grammar & Spelling should be as free from error as possible;
  15. Content will remain as accurate and updated as we can make it.
      
      
• We realise that we are human and therefore prone to error. We welcome constructive feedback, contributions from others, as to ways of improving our website, or of correcting errors and omissions.

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