~ Why Shred?
~ Services
~ Environment
~ What is FACTA?
~ Gramm/Leach/Bliley
~ HIPAA
~ NAID
~ Protecting Yourself
~ About Us
~ Contact Us
Why Shred?
The Law  |
Your organization must comply with laws and regulations, requiring that it protect certain information when it is discarded. An increasing number of laws actually require organizations to shred or face steep fines. At the federal level, FACTA (Credit Report Info), HIPAA (healthcare) and Gramm-Leach-Bliley (financial) require specific physical safeguards, such as shredding, to meet compliance. Stiff penalties could result |
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Your Customers |
Whether your customers are consumers concerned about Identity Theft and Privacy, or companies concerned with protecting trade information, you are entrusted with information that they consider to be extremely confidential. In fact, Whether you know it or not, you have an implied contract to protect that information simply based on the fact that you are collecting the data to conduct business. They have the legal right to expect you to take evey precaution to protect it, including shredding it before it is discarded. |
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Your Public Image |
Dumpster diving has become Investigative Journalism 101. With all the pirvacy compliance laws, it is the first place reporters look when trying to grab a quick headline. Privacy is the newest consumer awareness issue. Confidential information in your dumpster is an easy source of sensational headlines. |
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Your Employees |
Employees (past and present) have a legal right to have their personal information protected by shredding before it is discarded. Insurance records, employment applications, time cards, health records, accident reports and attendance records are examples of information that legally must be protected. |
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Corporate Ethics |
In this day and age, it is very important that your organization exhibits the highest ethical standards. Casually discarding company information, whether in the form of an individual's personal information, or company trade information, shows a callous disregard for customer and shareholder welfare. It exposes customers to the threat of Identity Theft and other fraud. It also risks your company losing its trade secret protections in court. |
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Your Trade Information Rights |
The courts have demonstrated many times that they will not recognize trade information protections if a company doesn't take every step to protect the information themselves. Casual disposal of information has been the basis for courts to deny trade information rights, which otherwise would have been enforceable. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that you forfeit the right of ownership to discard information. |
Why Shred with a Company like Elite Shredding?
What we do
Elite Shredding provides your business with the quickest and most secure way to destroy all of your confidential and sensitive documents. As a locally owned and operated small business, our most important goal is the safe destruction of your confidential information.
Our equipment
Elite Shredding invested in one of the top of the line Mobile On-Site Document Shredders in the industry. To provide your company iwth the highest security for your documents. We have extra features that include: a ground tunnel tipping system that makes sure no hands or eyes will touch your sensitive and confidential paper. We also have cameras inside the truck and welcome our customers to come out and watch their sensitive materials being destroyed. Our trucks are more efficient and faster, shredding up to 3000 lbs. per hour, saving you time and money. We also provide a Certificate of Destruction after each visit for your records and peace of mind.
Elite Shredding is NAID Certified
As part of the only organization dedicated to increasing the security and ethics of the information destruction industry, NAID members are bound to a strict code of conduct. As industry professionals they take their business and your trust seriously enough to promote NAID's efforts ot improve the industry. NAID members hold themselves to a higher standard.