Our Mission Statement

"We Provide Professional Confidential Material Destruction Services in a Secure, Cost Effective, and Environmentally Responsible Manner."

 

We're bonded for dishonest acts and insured for liabilities. We take this business very seriously! When a company places their trust in us to protect their confidential material, we do precisely that!

"Shredding Experts!"

Celebrating 12 Years Of Service: 1996 - 2008

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Information Disposal
1.) 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.

 

"Many companies we work with tell us: If it can't be posted on a bulletin board, it WILL be shredded!"

 

Types of things to shred or destroy:

 

uInformation medium such as paper, microfiche, CD's, diskettes, identification badges, etc.

 

uCoupons – overrun checks, billing invoices, etc.

 

uUnmarketable products with value – recalled or defective products.

 

uInformation to protect such as personal information, bank statements, tax records, etc. Anything that could be used by anyone else that would adversely affect a business or personal life!

Without the proper safeguards, information ends up in the dumpster where it is readily and legally available to anybody. Your trash is considered by business espionage professionals as the single most available source of competitive and private information from the average business. Any establishment that discards private and proprietary data without the benefit of destruction, exposes itself to the risk of criminal and civil prosecution, as well as the costly loss of business.

2.) Stored Records Should Be Destroyed On A Regular Schedule.
The period of time that business records are stored should be determined by a retention schedule that takes into consideration their useful value to the business and the governing legal requirements. No record should be kept longer than this retention period.

 

By not adhering to a program of routinely destroying stored records, a company exhibits suspicious disposal practices that could be negatively construed in the event of litigation or audit. Also, the new Federal Rule 26 requires that, in the event of a law suit, each party provide all relevant records to the opposing counsel within 85 days of the defendants initial response. If either of the litigants does not fulfill this obligation, it will result in a summary finding against them. By destroying records according to a set schedule, a company appropriately limits the amount of materials it must search through to comply with this law.

 

From a risk management perspective, the only acceptable method of discarding stored records is to destroy them by a method that ensures that the information is obliterated. Documenting the exact date that a record is destroyed is a prudent and recommended legal precaution.

 

3.) Incidental Business Records Discarded On A Daily Basis Should Be Protected.
Without a program to control it, the daily trash of every business contains information that could be harmful. This information is especially useful to competitors because it contains the details of current activities. Discarded daily records include phone messages, memos, misprinted forms, drafts of bids and drafts of correspondence.

All businesses suffer potential exposure due to the need to discard these incidental business records. The only means of minimizing this exposure is to make sure such information is securely collected and destroyed.

 

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Les Etscheidt, Operations Manager