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Secure Document & Product Destruction
Phone: 954-523-9366 • Toll Free: 888-45-SHRED
(74733)
33 N.E. 2nd St., Suite 300, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301
Web Site: www.recordshred.com
E-Mail: Info@recordshred.com
Protect Your Customers & Protect Yourself!
Every Business Has Information That
Requires Destruction.
All businesses have occasion to discard confidential
data. Customers lists, price lists, sales statistics, drafts
of bids and correspondence, and even memos, contain
information about business activity which would interest
any competitor. Every business is also entrusted with
information that must be kept private. Employees and
customers have the legal right to have this data
protected. Without the proper safeguards, information
ends up in the dumpster where it is readily, and legally,
available to anybody.
Internal Personnel Should Not be
Responsible To Destroy Certain
Information.
Common sense dictates that payroll information and
materials that involve labor relations or legal affairs,
should not be entrusted to lower level employees for
destruction. But, beyond that, competition sensitive
information is best protected from them as well. It has
been established, time and again, that employees are
the most likely to realize the value of certain information
to competitors. And, lower wage employees often
have the economic incentive to capitalize on their
access to it. The only acceptable alternatives are to
have the materials destroyed under the supervision
of upper management or by a carefully selected, high
security service.
Recycling Is Not An Adequate
Alternative For Information Destruction.
To extract the scrap value from office paper, recycling
companies use unscreened, minimum wage workers,
to extensively sort the paper under unsecured conditions.
The acceptable paper is stored for indefinite periods of
time until there is enough of a particular type to sell.
The sorted paper, still intact, is then baled and sold to
the highest bidder, often overseas, where it may be
stored again for weeks or even months until it is finally
used to make new products. There is no fiduciary
responsibility inherent in the recycling scenario. Paper
is given away or sold and, by doing so, a company
gives up the right say in how it is handled. There is,
also, no practical means of establishing the exact date
that a record is destroyed. In the event of an audit or
litigation, this could be a legal necessity. And, further,
if something of a private nature does surface, the
selection of this unsecured process could be interpreted
as negligent. For all these reasons, the choice of
recycling as a means of information destruction is
undesirable from a risk management perspective.
Shredding documents is sometimes
portrayed as an inherently suspect
activity. Nothing could be further from
the truth.
The vast majority of organizations shred for all the right
reasons:
• To PROTECT the customer's privacy and
prevent IDENTITY THEFT
• To OBEY LAWS requiring shredding
• To PROTECT the employee's' privacy
• To PROTECT the company and shareholders
by safeguarding proprietary trade information
SHRED THE RIGHT WAY!
• Shred on a regular basis
• Use your shredding contractor for ALL of
your shredding
• Treat all documents equally... shred everything
• Have a destruction policy
Call Us For More Information About Safe & Secure
Shredding of Your Documents
954-523-9366 • Toll Free: 888-45-SHRED
(74733)