{"id":15769,"date":"2025-02-13T16:21:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T16:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.restore.co.uk\/datashred\/?p=15769"},"modified":"2025-12-24T00:01:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T00:01:18","slug":"choosing-right-shredding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.restore.co.uk\/datashred\/choosing-right-shredding\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing the right shredding for your needs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Are you drowning in data? Secure shredding can help!<\/h2>\n

We live in the information age, which is great for progress, but by receiving, processing and handling so much data, we simply cannot afford to take our eye off the information management ball.<\/p>\n

Digital and physical data formats can quickly run away with us to become a hazard, either to health and safety \u2013 tripping, fire, that sort of thing \u2013 or to a business\u2019 reputation and financial standing through data and identity theft.<\/p>\n

Neither of those outcomes sound desirable to us. But as a market-leading secure data shredding business, we would say that, wouldn\u2019t we?!<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re unaccustomed to handling volumes of confidential data \u2013 and a LOT of data should be kept private in compliance with GDPR, to avoid breaches, as well as be kept secret from competitors \u2013 here are five ways of looking for the right shredding to move you on to the well-managed and compliant track.<\/p>\n<\/section>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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5 questions to ask yourself<\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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How much have I got?<\/h2>\n

If you work from home your turnover of paper, digital media or textiles, for example, may be quite low, with no need for more than one collection a quarter. No problem. Use our HomeShred service, tailored just for you. In a small-ish but high-output office, a more regular, systematised collection schedule, adapted and flexible to your needs, and including our discrete lockable cabinets and waste bins on site. Huge volumes occasioned by one-off archive clearances or office moves or closure we can accommodate in one of our vast roll-on\/roll-off containers that we deliver to wherever you need it.<\/p>\n

Then it\u2019s a simple choice between on-site shredding<\/strong><\/a>, at your place, where you can watch your confidential waste drop on to the shredder blades \u2013 highly suitable for lower volume highly sensitive or secret information \u2013 or off-site shredding<\/strong>,<\/a> where our security-checked operatives collect and transport your private data and materials in a tracked vehicle to the nearest Restore Datashred destruction centre for shredding into tiny, unusable fragments for recycling and responsible re-purposing.<\/p>\n<\/section>\r\n\n\n\n

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What type of data is it?<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

Physical or digital, on paper or hard disks and other storage devices, your data needs protecting from your place to ours. In fact, it doesn\u2019t have to be \u2018data\u2019 as such. Corporate responsibility covers the secure destruction of intellectual property, the value attached to branded goods, seized counterfeits, old uniforms (so they don\u2019t fall prey to impersonators), and end-of-line clothing.<\/p>\n

Whatever the medium, we can shred it, maintaining a strict, audited chain of custody from the moment we collect, to the moment the shredder reduces it to tiny pieces, and we produce a promptly delivered certificate of destruction for your records and peace of mind.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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How safe must it be?<\/h2>\n

Compliance with data protection legislation, and prevention of data breaches, are a given for any professional business, aren\u2019t they? Here at Restore Datashred, you can trust us to help you meet the legislative requirements for data protection, aka<\/em>, GDPR, which, in turn, helps plug the gap for any exposure or risk.<\/p>\n

All our services \u2013 HomeShred, on-site and off-site shredding, SwiftShred and container shredding \u2013 are supported by the same security systems and procedures, including:<\/p>\n