The New Year is right around the corner which means another year of antiquated documents are ready to shred! Whether you are a  lawyer, doctor, accountant, university or practically any other business, educational environment  or even every day  residence another year of confidential record retention has met data storage compliance regulations. Shredding documents is not just about cleaning your home and office it is about preventing identity theft and securing client and patient data. LionCage is New York and New Jerseys answer to document and hard drive shredding. This year make sure LionCage is part of your end of year routine!

There are a lot of shredding companies out there – what is special about LionCage?

LionCage provides on-time, onsite document shredding services as well as hard drive shredding across NY & NJ.  Our late model trucks have massive industrial shredders that can literally do tons of shredding per day ensuring that no job is to big or small. Our strong friendly staff does all the “schlepping” helping ensure that LionCage is not only an affordable solution but a convenient solution. LionCage is locally owned by Moti Mitteldorf & Eli Rowe, and is NYC BIC certified as well as NAID AAA certified for onsite shredding. LionCage services homes and businesses alike. Our large fleet of vehicles more of than not allow us to offer great rates and often same day service!

What should you shred?

While many documents such as old bank statements, credit card offers, social security and old checks are common sense to shred there are many documents such as garbage mail, printer errors and old school records you should shred. 

It is also essential to review yearly receipts and statements such as pay stubs and ATM receipts. If you are no longer required by legal retention policies then it is time to shred these documents that criminals may seek.

What should you keep?

The IRS recommends keeping records from anywhere between 3 and 7 years depending on the circumstances surrounding them. Records that you will have a hard drive retrieving in the event of an audit you should keep as well. If you are a physician HIPAA requires that you hold medical records for periods of time, however many records can be scanned and saved in digital format. LionCage offers scan and shred services as well. 

Using LionCage Cost $$$ – Why Can’t I shred myself?? 

    – 5 Reasons to Hire a Document Destruction Company

Though paper is less used today than it was 10 years ago the data that is on the paper is more valuable. Paper continues to be a highly integrated element of day-to-day operations across most homes and workplaces – across the board paper sales and statistics suggest that it’s not going to change any time soon. However what has changed is that today privacy laws are much stricter and enforced like no in the past, fines for noncompliance may be in the thousands per violation.

Here are 5 reasons why every home and business in the New York – New Jersey area should partner with a shredding solution such as LionCage

Information Security – Outsourcing to a reliable document destruction company with a secure chain of custody safeguards sensitive information and reduces the risk of a data breach. Clients with ongoing shredding needs receive a locked bin for employees to dispose of confidential papers, home users and one time “purges” will have our state of the art truck come on-site and shred papers in front of your eyes. All clients receive a Certificate of Destruction

Compliance – Compliance regulation/laws make it a legal responsibility to properly manage all sensitive information, with hefty penalties for businesses that don’t.  Non business (Home Users) need to ensure credit card offers, bank records, old non needed medical records are disposed of properly as well  to help prevent identity theft. 

Cost Effectiveness –  Cheap office shredders are good for shredding a few papers, however when constantly shredding, cheap shredders break plus the man power involved in hand feeding shredders and clearing out jams is not time or cost effective. 

Convenience – Leaving the regular disposal and destruction of confidential documents to the experts is convenient. Using our service for one time or reoccurring service you can rest assured that your documents are permanently destroyed eliminating document theft risks. 

5. One Stop Shop – LionCage offers ONSITE licensed, insured hard drive shredding and document shredding. Recently there have been charities and businesses offering free pickup of computers and electronics and making money selling scrap metal, similar to the pickup of used cars, however unlike cars computers, copiers etc contain sensitive data. Many if not all these companies are NOT NAID nor BIC certified. It is ILLEGAL in NYC (5 boroughs) to shred or transport in NYC without a BIC license.  To view a list of licensed companies you can visit the NYC page http://www.nyc.gov/html/bic/downloads/pdf/pr/licapproved.pdf

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