THINK ABOUT IT

DO YOU HAVE A LEGALLY SECURE SYSTEM IN PLACE FOR:

• Keeping your COMPANY'S confidential information from falling into the wrong hands?
• Keeping your CUSTOMER'S confidential information from falling into the wrong hands?
• Keeping your EMPLOYEE'S confidential information from falling into the wrong hands?
• Keeping yours and your customers' confidential information from falling into the hands of unauthorized personnel in your own office?

If not, you may be exposing your company to corporate espionage and law suits.

WHAT TO SHRED?

All businesses produce sensitive information that would be of interest to others. What constitutes confidential information that thieves might want from you?

Account Records Bids and Proposals Blank Checks Blueprints and Engineering Drawings Budget Data Cancelled Checks Competitive Information Computer Printouts Contracts Copies of Checks Correspondence and Memos Credit Card Receipts Credit Information Customer Lists	Deposit Slips Employment Applications Expense Reports Expired Coupons Extra Photocopies Financial Records Insurance Information Inventory Reports Invoices Legal Documents Loan Applications Loan Documents Marketing (Strategic) Plans Medical Records and Charts	Meeting Minutes Misprints Outdated Business Records Passwords/PIN #’s Payroll Records Personnel Files Prescriptions Price Lists Production Reports Purchase Orders R & D Information Sales Lists and Statistics Social Security #’s Tax Records
Documents should not be saved beyond their legal retention period. Most documents have legal retention periods ranging from one to seven years (retention periods will vary depending upon the type of document.) View Records Retention Schedule Shredding documents after the expiration of their retention period will save your company valuable space and storage charges. It will also guarantee that sensitive information contained in those documents will not be exposed to unauthorized individuals.

YOUR DUTY TO SECURE THE PRIVACY OF OTHERS

Identity theft and information based fraud is the fastest growing crime in America! 1 out of every 5 people is a victim of identity theft. Victims spend an average of 200 hours over a 3-year period and spend over one thousand dollars of out-of-pocket expenses to recover from the effects of having their identity stolen.

Protect your customers.

• At the very least, you have an "implied contract" to protect their information, simply based on the fact that you are collecting their data to conduct business. They have a legal contractual right to expect you to take every precaution to protect it, which can only be accomplished by shredding the data before it is discarded.
• Privacy laws require you to keep your customers' personal information private. Their confidential information can neither be disclosed to the public, nor to unauthorized personnel in your own office.

Protect your employees (current and former)

• They have a legal right to have their personal information secured by shredding their data before it is discarded

COST EFFICIENCY

Are you still using an office shredder? Time is money!

• We can do it cheaper, more secure, and more efficiently than you can do with an in house office shredder.
  
  • We guarantee you that the savings will be significant.
    
  • In 15 minutes we can destroy what it would take an office shredder days to do.
    
  • In-house shredding will not handle large volumes and may prompt employees to circumvent the destruction process.
    
• Stop wasting valuable employee time at the office shredder.
  
• No security container fees, travel fees, disposal fees or recycling fees with our monthly routine service.
  
• Free up office space from stored outdated information.
  
• Lower utility expenses.
  
• Eliminate equipment outlay and maintenance costs.
  

CONVENIENCE

• Attractive Locked Security Containers (consoles and/or bins) provided to you FREE of charge to be placed strategically in your facility, in locations convenient for your staff to use to dispose of confidential materials
  
• No need to sort paper by color or grade or remove staples, paper clips, alligator clips, binding, or any other items attached to materials.
  
• Once your documents are easily placed in the locked security containers, within seconds your job is done!
  
• No need to call for routine service. We automatically have you scheduled for service - timely pickups are based upon your needs.
  
• Only Shred One Security Corp. and the designated contact within your organization has a key to access these security containers.

YOUR COMPANY'S INFORMATION SECURITY

What would it cost your company, your customers and your employees if sensitive information were to fall into the wrong hands?

• Corporate Espionage
  
  • An estimated 7 billion dollars was lost last year alone to corporate espionage.
    
  • Dumpster Diving is legal - The U.S. Supreme court has ruled that information thrown in your trash is fair game to anyone.
    
  • It's estimated that 70% of all espionage involves dumpster diving.
    
  • The FBI estimates the theft of proprietary information costs U.S. corporations $42 billion annually.
    
• Competition - Make sure your business STAYS your business



• Former and Current Employees
  
  • Employees are the most likely to realize the value of discarded company information. It is important to safeguard your company's proprietary information, not only from competitors, but also from unauthorized personnel within your own organization.
    
• Trade Information Rights
  
  • If you don't protect your trade information, the courts won't either.
    
• Corporate Public Image
  
• Corporate Ethics

REGULATORY COMPLIANCE

COULD YOUR COMPANY SURVIVE A LAWSUIT?

Various state, federal and international regulations govern the protection of private information. Disclosing private information - even by accident - could be grounds for a lawsuit. A secure, reliable shredding program will assist you in remaining legally compliant with privacy laws.

• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ("HIPAA") - he Final Privacy Rule: This Rule limits the use and disclosure of individually identifiable health information relating to the physical or mental health of individuals absent consent or authorization from the patient and subject to certain other exclusions.
  
• Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLB) Act: This Act requires that financial institutions take steps to ensure the security and confidentiality of its customers non-public personal information including personally identifiable information such as Social Security numbers, passwords or access codes for bank accounts, credit cards, ATM cards, financial assets of an individual, consumer credit reports, financial account numbers for an individual, and other similar such financial information that is attributable to a particular individual. The harm caused by "identity theft" has led the federal government to create mandates such as this in order to prevent even the negligent disclosure of sensitive personal information. GLB covers a wide array of financial activities. The definition of a "financial institution" under GLB is extremely broad, including preparers of individual tax returns, providers of real estate settlement services and debt collection agencies.
  
• The 1974 Federal Privacy Act was established to insure that government agencies protect the privacy of individuals and businesses with regard to information held by them and to hold these agencies liable if any information is released without authorization.
• Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) — Regulation S-P: The purpose of this Regulation is to bring businesses regulated by the SEC into compliance with the concepts for privacy outlined under the GLB Act. This Act applies to broker-dealers, funds, registered advisors, those who deal with variable annuity or variable life insurance, and any other entities dealing in Securities.
• Safe Harbor Privacy Principles: In October 1998, the European Union's wide-sweeping privacy legislation — called the European Union Data Protection Directive — became effective. The Directive places new requirements on businesses that wish to collect, process or transfer personal data from an EU Member State to an non-EU Member State. Under the Directive, the transfer of personal information from an EU Member State to a non-EU country is forbidden unless the country and the company involved provide an "adequate" level of privacy protection
  
  In all likelihood, your state legislature has enacted, adopted or proposed privacy legislation which will apply to your company if your business requires access to any non-public personal information.
• FERMA
• Facta (2003): The new Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACTA) amends the current Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) to "prevent identity theft, improve resolutions of consumer disputes, improve accuracy of consumer records, make improvements in the use of, and consumer access to credit information, and for other purposes."
  According to the FTC’s FACTA disposal rule “any person who maintains or otherwise possesses consumer information for a business purpose” must properly destroy discarded consumer information. A reasonable measure as defined in FACTA is
  securely shredding of paper documentation containing consumer information.
• Sarbanes Oxley Act (2002) was passed to implement changes in federal securities regulation, corporate governance, and the regulation or auditors. It expanded federal white-collar laws criminalizing the destruction of certain corporate communications and documents.
  
• Federal Rule 26: 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 litgation or audit. Destroying on a set schedule limits your legal risks.
  
• FERPA is a Federal law that protects the privacy of student education records. The law applies to all schools that receive funds under an applicable program of the U.S. Department of Education. FERPA gives parents certain rights with respect to their children's education records. These rights transfer to the student when he or she reaches the age of 18 or attends a school beyond the high school level.
  
• Fair Credit Reporting, enforced by the Federal Trade Commission, is designed to promote accuracy and ensure the privacy of the information used in consumer reports. Recent amendments to the Act expand your rights and place additional requirements on CRAs. Businesses that supply information about you to CRAs and those that use consumer reports also have new responsibilities under the law.
  
• Ecomonic Espionage Act makes the theft or misappropriation of trade secrets a criminal offense, and is the first federal law that purports to both broadly define and severely punish such misappropriation and theft.

RECYCLING

DON'T JUST SECURE YOUR COMPANY'S CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS. HELP SECURE THE ENVIRONMENT AS WELL.

All shredded materials go directly to a paper recycler.

• Shredded materials are recycled into materials such as paper towels, toilet paper, cardboard, corrugated boxes, etc.
  
• For every ton of paper recycled, you help save 17 trees and 3 cubic yards of landfill space.
  

CAUTION! Recycling alone does NOT establish the necessary requirements of information destruction.

• Any document containing confidential information must be destroyed prior to being sent to a recycler.
  
• Your legal and fiduciary obligations may require you to establish a legal chain of custody for destroyed documents (Who, What, When, Where and How they were destroyed).