Document Destruction from Cleveland, Ohio to Jamestown, NY
On-Site or In-House Shredding
Northcoast Shredding Service
Whether it is on-site or in-house, we will take the greatest care to safeguard your confidential information.
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. One only needs to read the morning paper; the Hitachi IBM industrial espionage case is a good example. 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 Service, 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.
With Northcoast Shredding Service there is 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 and most importantly no loss of confidentiality.
Don't let your business go out with the trash! Let Northcoast Shredding Service set up an on-site shredding program today and witness for yourself the destruction of all your confidential materials right at your location or ours!
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 and more.
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
New Office Opening
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 Service is a member of NAID (National Association of Information Destruction).
FACTA Compliance
FACTA: Basic Facts For Businesses
The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA) is a consumer rights bill that became effective June 1st, 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, 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.
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
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 Service there is 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 and most importantly no loss of confidentiality.