NAG Ethical and Environmental Policy

Ethical Policy

Values

NAG is a not-for-profit organisation founded as a collaborative venture in 1970. NAG has carried through its collaborative values throughout its history and continues to seek out positive collaborations in both the business and academic worlds.

NAG:

1. Aims to demonstrate its ethical values of integrity, transparency, social responsibility and caring for others.
2. Seeks to invest any profits back into the organisation.
3. Encourages active membership to ensure the organisations governance reflects the general consensus of its members.

Goals

One of NAG’s goals is to conduct its business dealings in a fair and just way. In combination with this goal NAG aims to promote the well being of its staff, surrounding community and understand how its activities impact the environment. In understanding this impact, NAG strives to minimise the negative implications to the environment from its day-to-day business operations.

NAG focuses its efforts on offering its customers world-class numerical software and expert service.

Due to its unique structure and history, NAG invests its returns into its products, the development of its staff and collaborative projects which serve its broader community.

Governance

The NAG Group's stakeholders are its members, which consist of external collaborators, and current and former staff. New employees are encouraged to become members through invitation. Members are kept informed of company activity, results and developments through the AGM. Members are also encouraged to vote in the election of the organisations Board of Directors.

Responsibility

NAG Ltd:

1. Strives to offer customers and others contacting NAG the best possible service at all times in an honest and fair way.
2. Holds regular staff meetings via Staff Panel where employee representatives are informed of company performance and results, HR and other company matters affecting employees.
3. Adheres to the UK’s Investors in People standard, which insist on best practice guidelines being met by the company.
4. Where it can purchases Fair Trade and Organic produce for staff consumption.
5. Adheres to current EU data protection law and will only include people in their marketing communications if they are existing customers or have opted to receive such communication. If a customer requests to not receive marketing communication we strive to ensure they do not do so. All marketing communication gives the recipient the option of saying ‘no to further marketing communication’.

Environmental Policy

Values

NAG aims to understand how its activities impact negatively on the environment and where it can will do all it can to reduce this impact.

NAG Ltd:

1. Uses an environmentally friendly heating and cooling system as recommended by UK government advisors.
2. Encourages staff to recycle office and personal waste and provides mechanisms to aid this activity.
3. Where it can purchases from local suppliers, supporting local businesses and reducing delivery transportation.
4. Promotes the use of public transport for staff travel and provides company bicycles and bicycle storage.
5. Encourages staff to lower energy usage by turning off electrical and electronic equipment when not in use and to avoid using standby functions.
6. Provides a wormery and associated facilities to enable staff food waste to decompose to compost.