What to Shred – Secure Document Shredding
Every business produces proprietary information that requires shredding once its usefulness has expired. In fact, companies are legally bound to destroy confidential documents related to their employees or clients.
In order to mitigate risk, secure papers and documents on the personal, corporate, and client levels should be destroyed on a regular schedule, as soon as it has outlived its usefulness. No matter what type of data your business generates—the information you choose to protect when in use should also be protected when you discard it!
| Personal Information | Files and Records | Client Data | Non-Paper Items |
| Addresses | Account Records | Business Plans | Binders |
| ATM receipts | Audits | Cancelled Checks | Books |
| Bank account information | Bank Statements | Computer Reports | Carbon Paper |
| Brokerage Account Information | Competitive Information | Credit Card Numers | CD-ROMs/CD-Rs/DVDs |
| Cancelled & Voided Checks | Computer Records | Executive Correspondence | Computer Backups |
| Credit & Debit Card Numbers | Contracts | New Product Information | Excessive Inventory |
| Credit Reports and Histories | Correspondence | Obsolete Collateral | Microfiche |
| Drivers’ License Numbers | Diligence Files | Photographs | X-Rays |
| Employee Pay Stubs | Fax Machine Ribbons | Presentations | Videotapes |
| Employment Records | Financial Records | Price/Inventory Lists | Cassette Tapes |
| Passport numbers | Insurance Records | Proposals and Quotes | Casino Chips |
| Resumes | Intellectual Property Records | Proprietary Documents | Obsolete Products or Material |
| Social Security Numbers | Internal Memos | Receipts/Invoices | Product Samples |
| Telephone Numbers | Invoices | R&S Files/Data | Product Samples |
| Tax Forms | Legal Documents | Prototypes | |
| Travel Itineraries | Market Research | Plastic | |
| Used Airline Tickets | Marketing Material | Microfilm | |
| Obsolete Contracts | Transparencies | ||
| Official Notices | Obsolete Products or Material | ||
| Payroll Records | Other office material | ||
| Personnel Files | |||
| Personnel Files | |||
| Phone Records | |||
| Planning Documents | |||
| Price Lists | |||
| Purchase Receipts | |||
| Sales Forecasts | |||
| Tax Records | |||
| Training Information |
