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Don’t leave your company exposed by skimping on business essentials.
Statistics consistently reveal that 40% of all breaches in confidential data is from poorly managed paper documents.
That’s right: information that customers and colleagues have imparted in good faith, business and industry secrets, intellectual property and sensitive strategy documents; these are all vulnerable to theft if you do not keep them secure throughout their regulated lifespan. And that lifecycle is regulated both by statutory retention periods and data protection law stemming from GDPR, and includes correct disposal, too.
Hidden costs around… Security
It’s easy to damage your reputation and your bottom line if you don’t look after sensitive information correctly. Human error, ignorance or bad actors can lead to data breaches, and fines. We’ve all seen reports on the multi-million-pound financial penalties handed down by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Using an inadequate in-house shredder to destroy GDPR-regulated information is risky: are the shreds small enough and how do you dispose of them afterwards? Using an in-house shredder is unproductive for whoever is delegated the task and ultimately, of course, less secure than using a professional shredding service.
Hidden costs around… Compliance
Linked to security, compliance costs mean you are not meeting your professional obligations to GDPR and the WEEE Directive when it comes to the correct disposal of confidential data, whether on paper, digital media, hard drives, and so on. Throwing large, potentially legible, shreds into the paper recycling bin, for example, is not going to satisfy the ICO or your customers. And there’s a good chance you will not fully meet your environmental responsibilities, either.
Hidden costs around… the Environment
Paper is still a key medium in the workplace and is never just ‘waste’ because it is one of the ultimate recyclable materials. It can go round up to six or seven times being manufactured into new paper products and then used as pulp when the fibres grow too weak. If you leave your wastepaper to the vagaries of an unsecured waste collection service, how do you guarantee it’s 100% recycled, the information contained on it kept secure, and that it doesn’t become a hidden environmental cost?
Don’t get caught out!
Using a professional confidential shredding firm to destroy your paper documents at the end of their retention period or lifespan is the only ICO-recommended way to guarantee the total, trackable destruction of your business’s sensitive data. With a little dedicated messaging and by providing lockable bins for shreddable waste streams from a reputable professional document shredding service, you will avoid being caught out by data and identity thieves and by Mother Earth.
Restore Datashred: we are that reputable professional shredding company
In a competitive world, your business’ integrity, reputation and prosperity depend on how you handle confidential information. Skimping on the essentials in achieving optimal handling is a false economy, we think. So, it’s good to know that Restore Datashred can help you shoulder the burden of compliant data protection and pursuing cost efficiencies and sustainability goals. Our professional, knowledgeable and friendly teams work at 11 locations across the UK, combining national coverage for your data destruction needs with local-level insight. The people in those teams, and the services they run, are key for our reputation and our customers agree: over 1,000 rate us as ‘Excellent’ on Trustpilot.
Compliance/Security
We are a little obsessive about security. We provide lockable cabinets, bins and fortressed containers for your site(s), establish an e-audited chain of custody from the get-go, and ensure our operatives are trained, security-checked and responsible. From the moment your confidential paper waste leaves your workplace to the moment it falls on to our shredder blades, it is tracked and trackable by you by accessing your online portal, and we send you a certificate of destruction to complete the transaction. All our systems and processes, and people, are backed by hard-won accreditations, industry association memberships and frameworks that guarantee our serious approach to keeping your data always protected.
Efficiency, including cost-savings
We offer a range of services, at whatever frequency you need, and waste storage products that we can adapt to work for you whether you choose to destroy information on site, off site, from working at home or from an archive clear-out at your storage facility.
Sustainability
We are a major recycling company and have the awards to prove it. Our guarantee to you is that we recycle 100% of the paper we shred on your behalf, so that it gets another go round in the circular economy. Your monthly environmental report will reveal that, by using our services, you save water and energy and help reduce emissions and tree wastage, which are all positive steps. Naturally, as a business, our aim is to lower the environmental costs for everyone, so we also have our own Net Zero targets, such as the installation of solar panels, an increasingly electrified fleet, and tree planting, which bolster all that you do to meet your environmental responsibilities, too.
But best of all? – there are no hidden costs!
Time to get a grip on your business costs? Get in touch with one of our highly approachable and well-informed customer services team on 0333 060 4362 and find out how you can banish all those hidden costs, once and for all.
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