Every Future Shredding job ends with a Certificate of Destruction — the document you file to prove that specific records were destroyed, on a specific date, by a specific method. Auditors, regulators, and opposing counsel all accept the same thing: paper proof. Here is what ours certifies.
What the Certificate States
Executed between Future Shredding, Incorporated and the client, the certificate confirms that:
- The documents provided by the client were destroyed on-site by means of document shredding;
- A Future Shredding team member oversaw the operation of the shredding;
- The destruction upheld the guidelines of federal and state law, including but not limited to:
- the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA);
- the Fair Credit Reporting Act;
- the Federal Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act of 1998;
- the Federal Privacy Act of 1974; and
- the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA);
- Future Shredding does not collect or sell client data and does not store credit card information directly; and
- Future Shredding upholds the California Constitution, Article 1, Section 1, which gives each citizen an “inalienable right” to pursue and obtain privacy.
When You Get One
After every service, automatically — one-time purges, recurring pickups, and specialty media destruction alike. Keep it with your retention records; if you ever need to show that a box of files stopped existing, this is how.