• Secure and Confidential Offsite Document Destruction Services, Ensure Business Continuity with Archive America.

• Secure Destruction of Confidential Documentation, Full Retention Scheduling Services.

• Off Site Secure Destruction Programs, Confidential Destruction and Retention Scheduling from Archive America.

The Confidential Destruction Services of Boxes files and even tapes and computer media is part and parcel of any fully integrated Records Management Program. Archive America one of the leaders in Records and Information Management solutions to the business community all over the United States for more than 15 years has a unique understanding of the requirements for secure destruction an shredding of confidential and sensitive information. The life cycle of any document will, in most cases require that document, box, file or tape to be destroyed at the end of its life. It all begins at the inception of a document, at day one it has a finite life, and, depending on any retention schedule or Retention Guideline, it’s days are numbered from that point on. After a period of time it will be sent offsite, indexed or catalogued and stored in one of our many secure facilities across the United States. Our retention scheduling software allows for the sophisticated input of Category codes, retention times and schedules.

Once these have been conveyed to Archive America we are able to index your information with the relevant codes ensuring that their ultimate demise and destruction occurs in line with our clients guidelines and their exact needs. Once a document stored with Archive America has reached its life cycle, our clients can authorize the destruction from the individual file level stored in either an open shelf location, a slot allocated tape or media item, through o a whole box of information. Archive America will never destroy any item without the client’s final sign off of each individual bar-coded item. This failsafe allows our clients to once more review an retention guidelines. Times change and legislation is updated almost on a weekly basis. Retention guidelines good today may be out of date within a year.

Our Standard Operating Procedures do not allow us to destroy anything unless it has been signed off by our client. Although we are well aware of most retention guidelines, we not experts in our customers businesses and cannot arbitrarily destroy boxes files and tapes without consent. One the final approval for Secure Destruction has been given, all items will be securely destroyed and a destruction certificate supplied. Our destruction program allows for the shredding o pulping of documents, giving our clients the security that is required for all of their most important information and ensuring that once it says destroyed, it is destroyed. Once overlooked as necessary evil, confidential and secure destruction of sensitive legal and financial information is now a requirement for most retention policies in business. In an age of identity theft and corporate scandal is it really wise to not have your most important documentation fall into hands of a competitor, or do you take secure and confidential destruction with the gravitas it deserves.