Reasons to Shred your Confidential Information
Every day your business may generate hundreds of important documents which end up in trash baskets. This fact can have serious consequences for the businesses or personal lives of your clients, customers, employees and medical patients if these documents fall in to the wrong hands. The FBI estimates that U.S. businesses lose tens of billions of dollars annually due to theft of documents.
In today’s business environment, incidental records that are deemed non records are produced daily. As defined in chapter 44, U.S. Code 3301, incidental records include extra copies (e.g. photocopies) of documents such as routing slips, misprints, transmittal sheets, faxes and intermediate drafts, created or received throughout the course of the day, that have no value beyond their immediate use. Incidental records can comprise as much as 60% of the waste generated in an office environment. These records may have a life of a few minutes or a few weeks, but often are discarded without any acknowledgement of their creation or a policy regarding their proper retention and disposal. “Dumpster diving” has been called a new form of “investigative journalism” as well as an easy source of confidential information for corporate spies. Key information is produced daily in your office and much of it ends up in the garbage. Additionally, many companies have storerooms of old documents containing sensitive private information including contracts, medical records, personnel files and credit and billing information.
Government agencies and regulators around the nation are now demanding that companies take responsibility for ensuring the security of their confidential records. This is not only good business practice; it’s the law. Many businesses are unaware of recent requirements mandated by FACTA, the Fair and Accurate Transactions Act. This strict new corporate environment means that aggressive sanctions may be imposed on organizations that are less than rigorous about the absolute security of all their confidential documents.
Our shredding standards meet compliance requirements of HIPAA and regulation specifications of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.
High Security Services for High Security Needs
At Eggleston Document Destruction, we take your material to our secure facility and shred it there using a strictly controlled and rigorously secure process. We provide you with a choice of different containers, which are locked to secure the material inside. One of our uniformed employees will exchange the container when needed. Your containers stay locked until it reaches our facility where it is shredded under the strictest security. After your material has been shredded we send you a certificate of destruction. This is the fastest and most cost effective solution for shredding. If desired, customers are welcome to visit our secure shredding facility and witness the destruction of their materials.
In order to best meet the needs of our customers, we offer a flexible service program based on an analysis of our customer's current paper use and disposal needs.
- Several styles of security containers available
- Scheduled service includes daily, weekly, bimonthly, monthly, quarterly pickup
- Bulk pickup and disposal
- Disposal of plastics, electronic media, film, microfiche
- Certified destruction of all materials
- Bonded and fully insured
- Completely secure shredding facilities including 24/7 alarm security, GPS vehicle tracking, extensive video surveillance.
- Professional, uniformed employees who have passed criminal background checks and drug testing
- Free estimates on all jobs
- Free pick up service within 24 hours
- Off-Site Secure Destruction
- Recycling of all shredded papers
- Confidential, Convenient and Cost Effective
Destruction Purges
If you are moving your offices or simply cleaning out off-site storage, Eggleston Document Destruction can help you destroy the materials you have purged and free up valuable space. We can assure complete and secure destruction to standards that meet or exceed NAID standards.
Weekly or Monthly Service
Depending on you needs and the volume of documents you need us to shred, we can tailor a custom schedule for pick up, secure transportation and complete destruction of your documents. Pricing depends on the volume of materials picked up, and the frequency of visits. We provide you with locked storage containers for use in a secure location on your premises.
Witnessing Destruction
Customers are welcome to witness our destruction procedures, processes and activities. We ask that you obtain proper approval and authorization in advance.
Short Term Holding
As an added service, Eggleston Document Destruction can provide secure on-site storage of documents for extended periods prior to destruction
Destruction Consulting
Our Data Consultants can help you plan, gather and destroy your records. Our staff has the experience and background in all areas of record management and secure shredding. We stand ready to assist you in risk management, legal compliance, liability exposure security procedures and site planning.
Pick Up and Drop Off
You can schedule convenient pick-up services or can bring your documents for fast effective shredding to one of our convenient drop off sites, located throughout Hampton Roads.
Free Containers
Free security containers are supplied to our customers for their convenience
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