AZ Docushred Approach

We Secure your Non Public Personal Information (NPPI) and Recycle the shredded material.

We will come to you! Simply contact AZDS and schedule a pick-up at 480-335-4284

You may select from the following services to destroy your confidential, outdated material:

• Regularly Scheduled Service
• One–time or Purge Service

Call us to discuss your confidential material destruction needs at 480-335-4284

AZ DOCUSHRED is a proud member of the National Association of Information Destruction (NAID)

Why Shred?

Identity Theft

• Identity theft is the fastest growing crime in the United States. Businesses are entrusted with all types of confidential information, and each business needs to do their part to prevent identity theft by safeguarding their employee's, client's or patient's information.
• Destroy documents containing names, addresses, Social Security numbers, credit card, bank or utility account numbers when they are no longer needed.
• Your internal personnel should not be responsible for document destruction. Clearly, payroll data, personnel records, and materials that involve labor relations or legal affairs should not be entrusted to entry level employees for destruction. Potential dangers also arise when workers are asked to destroy competition-sensitive data.
• Destruction of classified information is best left to a carefully selected, professional document destruction company.

Laws you should know about:

Privacy protection is a matter of law. Each of us is required by federal law—and increasingly by state and local mandates—to protect certain types of information. Secure document destruction allows you to be compliant with these laws.

At the federal level, three important laws require specific safeguards to ensure confidentiality.

• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
• Gramm Leach Bliley Act, also known as the Financial Modernization Act of 1999 The Fair and Accurate Credit.
• Transaction Act of 2003 (FACTA)
• Red Flag Rules

All four laws provide for stiff penalties for companies found to be in violation

Out-sourced shredding is more cost effective than in-house shredding.

• It is very expensive to have your own employees shred paper with portable office shredders. If your people are shredding for as little as a combined two hours PER MONTH, it is likely that hiring a professional document destruction company will be a less expensive alternative.
• If you are shredding less than two hours per month, you may want to consider storing the paper and having the paper shredded once per year by a professional document destruction company.
• You save money by using a professional document shredding company because:

       1. You don't have to pay your employees to shred the paper
       2. You don't have to purchase and maintain your own shredding equipment
       3. You don't have to remove paper clips and staples
       4. You don't have to clean up the dust from shredding
       5. You don't have to pay for the cost of disposal of the paper

Your information—in the form of business plans, product designs, account lists, business proposals, blueprints, and drawings—is the foundation of your company. Discarded information that makes its way into wastebaskets, garbage cans, and dumpsters is the single most available source of competitive and private data about your company. It's this information that has all the makings of corporate espionage.

When it comes to stealing corporate secrets by retrieving documents from trash cans and dumpsters:

• The law is firmly on the side of the "bad guys."
• Courts have consistently ruled that by discarding data into the trash, you have indicated that it is of no value to you.
• The taking of this "useless information," no matter what the intent, is protected by the law.

Shredding discarded material will render it unreadable—hence, useless—to those attempting to capitalize on your information.

• Customer Account Lists
• Business Plans
• Plans for New Products
• Financial Statement
• Payroll Data
• Cancelled checks
• more...