At Northcoast, we actually shred your paper while our competitors simply grind.
Our competitors grind your paper...
Northcoast shreds your paper!
Document Destruction from Cleveland, Ohio to Jamestown, New York
On-Site or In-House Shredding
Northcoast Shredding Services
Whether it is on-site or in-house, we will take the greatest care to safeguard your confidential information in our secure facility.
NAID AAA Certified
24-Hour camera surveillance
Key fob entrance
Padlocked dock doors
Background checks on all employees
Identity theft, vandalism and industrial espionage are becoming ever-increasing security problems. We have all heard the horror stories resulting from confidential information getting into the wrong hands. Today's information explosion can be devastating to your business if accessed by the wrong person. With the increased usage of office copiers, fax machines and computers, staggering amounts of sensitive information is being generated and carelessly discarded.
At Northcoast Shredding Services, we take the fear out of the office by offering a complete On-Site or In-House Shredding Service Program that will help maintain security of your most sensitive documents. Once your paper is destroyed, it is sent to a paper mill and properly recycled.
With Northcoast Shredding Services:
No shredder to purchase or maintain
No employee wages to pay
No wasted hours shredding
No plastic bags to purchase
No disposal of bulky, shredded material
No dirt, dust or cleanup
Most importantly no loss of confidentiality!
Don't let your business go out with the trash! Let Northcoast Shredding Services set up a shredding program today and witness for yourself the destruction of all your confidential materials right at your location or our secure facility!
Who could use our service? Any public or private company, institution or health care facility converting records to electronic media and dealing with everyday business such as payroll data, personnel files, customer lists, financial statements, R&D reports, sales reports, forecasts, marketing plans, health records, personal documents and more.
Available Shredding Programs Include:
On-site shredding at your facility
In-house shredding at Northcoast
Monthly pick-ups
Community shred days
Locked blue bins
Locked cabinets/consoles
Customer drop-off for residents in which you can
watch your documents being shredded
... and much more!
At Northcoast, we can shred paper to IRS specifications, 5/16".
Have Your Data Destroyed Before It Reaches The Wrong Hands!
Protected Health Information
Financial Records
Payroll Records
Personnel Files
Legal Documents
Cancelled Checks
Accounting Records
New Product Proposals
Maps and Blueprints
Business Plans
Inventory Lists
Confidential Letters and Memos
... and much more!
Northcoast offers its customers more options for the destruction of their documents than any other shredding company in Northern Ohio, Northwestern Pennsylvania and New York.
Northcoast Shredding Services is a member of NAID (National Association of Information Destruction).
Electronic & Digital Media Destruction
Do you have electronic or digital media that you would like destroyed?
We can destroy electronic and digital media files such as
Audio-visual cassettes
CDs
X-rays
Film
Recalled items
Plastics such as credit cards
...
and much more!
FACTA Compliance
FACTA: Basic Facts For Businesses
The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA) is a consumer rights bill that became effective June 1, 2005.
All companies in the United States are affected by this legislative act.
FACTA was designed to lower the risk of identity theft and consumer fraud. It enforces the proper destruction of consumer information, such as name, address, SSN and credit information. Also included in this bill is the necessity to destroy data compiled from this information.
FACTA basically requires that all businesses - regardless of size and industry - properly protect and dispose of the personal information they collect about their customers and employees.
"Any person who maintains or otherwise possesses consumer information, or any compilation of consumer information, derived from consumer reports for a business purpose" in electronic or paper form must "take reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access or use of the information in connection with its disposal" - or to "properly dispose of such information or compilation.” The bill is available at www.ftc.gov/os/2004/11/041118disposalfrn.pdf.
Red Flags Rule
The Red Flags Rule went into effect December 31, 2010.
The Red Flags Rule is one of the nineteen provisions of FACTA. The rule states that any organization extending payment terms to customers and has personal information on file must have a written document destruction program. This written program must detail where this information is susceptible to the risk of unauthorized access and/or identity theft, preventative measures that address identity theft vulnerabilities and state that authorities must be alerted as well as those in danger of identity theft. The owners of the company or board of directors must sign the written program annually, and it requires audits of data-related vendors with access to customers’ personal information.
The Red Flags Rule affects roughly 40% of U.S. businesses, nearly 11 million organizations.
HIPAA Compliance
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a federal law to prevent abuses of personal health information (PHI), including unauthorized access. It is administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and it is enforced by the U.S. Office of Civil Rights.
Technically, EVERY EMPLOYER in the United States with completed health insurance applications or injury reports on file is considered a SMALL COVERED ENTITY under HIPAA.
Some businesses that would be considered SMALL COVERED ENTITIES are:
Doctors
Dentists
Chiropractors
Psychiatrists
Psychologists
Counselors
Urgent Care Centers
Billing Centers
Physical Therapists
Collection Agencies
Orthodontists
Medical Clinics
Gramm-Leach-Bliley ACT (GLBA)
The Gramm-Leach-Bliley ACT (GLBA) made the affiliation of banks, investments firms and insurance companies possible. In turn for granting greater freedom to the financial industry, the Act put regulations in place to protect customer privacy.
Title V, Privacy Provisions:
Section 501: Mandates that the financial industry's governing bodies create guidelines for the safeguarding of customer information.
Section 502: Forces companies to allow customers the option of prohibiting their personal information from being shared with non-affiliated third parties.
Section 503: Requires the disclosure of privacy policies to customers on at least an annual basis.
Section 521: Criminalizes fraudulent access to customer information, specifically via telephone, A practice known as "pretexting."
With Northcoast Shredding Services: