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You receive our promise to provide secure and
confidential destruction of your company’s sensitive information while
disposing your IT assets.
The obligation to maintain the privacy and security
of personal information has reached a critical level. Two pieces of
federal legislation mandate rules about how businesses must guard
information they receive from or gather about those people with whom
they do business.
The privacy provisions of the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the Gramm-Leach
Blilely Act (GLBA) apply strict rules to the disclosure of information in
certain industries. They also set penalties for failure to meet their
requirements and they authorize certain federal governmental agencies to
enforce their provisions.
The secure destruction of “nonpublic personal
financial information” and “individually identifiable health
information” are essential parts of compliance. Doing so effectively
requires financial institutions, service providers, covered entities,
and business associates to identify all forms of confidential
information and implement procedures to insure that information is
properly disposed of. These programs assist in keeping financial
institutions, service providers, covered entities and business
associates with HIPAA and GLB regulations.
For more information on HIPAA see the
Health & Human Services page
For more information about the Gramm-Leach-Bliley
Act see the
Federal Trade Commission page.
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