Confidential Shredding

Amgen Cymru provides a confidential shredding waste service to businesses and local authorities. Our service provides you with the peace of mind that your important and personal information is dealt with efficiently, effectively and most of all professionally so your information can never get in the wrong hands. We provide you with everything you need, and a service that works around you and your companies needs. All our staffs that deal with your confidential shredding are all CRB (Criminal Records Bureau) checked.

Your company will be presented with a certificate of destruction that proves that your materials have been destroyed and disposed off by our selves.

Confidential shredding consists of destroying important documents.

What type of documents do companies usually shred?

Company reports and customer information along with a variety of other documents that companies try to keep within the business office without it getting out on the street.

Can the information be re-assembled after shredding?

Our confidential shredding service makes it impossible for an individual to try to put together what we shred into a ton of little pieces. Confidential shredding is the one most important thing that any company should and can do on a regular basis.

What are the main advantages?

It helps protect and secure information regarding customers and other data reports that the company has. It helps customers knowing that their information will be destroyed without being released into the wrong hands. Shredding papers can help your company in so many ways. It helps eliminate paper waste.

It makes more room in file cabinets or other areas that documents are kept. It encourages you to eliminate old documents that companies don't need anymore. Shredding gets rid of important social security numbers and payroll information.

What we do with your personal information;

• Collections will be made, whether on a regular agreed schedule or by request. The materials will be put in the secure confidential bags that we provide you with as part of our service to you.
• On arrival at your site, our personnel will collect your confidential material and load it into our vehicle. Once your confidential material is in the charge of our representative, it is at no time left unsecured.
• Once all your materials have been collected and loaded securely on to our vehicle, you and our representative will sign our duty of care collection sheet which both parties will have a copy of. This will provides both parties of all the required information.
• All your materials are securely stored and shredded at our site quickly and efficiently.
• You will be issued with an authenticated Certificate of Destruction from our office together with your invoice.
• The shredded materials which is now impossible to reassemble is then recycled.

If you would like to find out more about our confidential shredding service or to request a quote please contact:

Mike Adams
Commercial Director

Bryn Pica Landfill Site,
Llwydcoed,
Aberdare,
RCT
CF44 0BX

Tel - 01685 870770
Fax – 01685 874684

The Law and You - Data Protection

The Information Commissioner's Office (www.ico.gov.uk) is an independent official body appointed by the Queen. The Commissioner is responsible for administering the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

We are all affected by the 1998 Data Protection Act. However, many company directors and business owners do not realise that they can be fined or imprisoned if they fail to comply. Meet your Data Protection Act obligations - let us shred your confidential material and put an end to all your security shredding worries.

Amgen Cymru confidential shredding services can help you meet your statutory obligations - and put your mind at rest. To find out more please contact Lynne Davies (Commercial Manager) on 01685 870770.

Q: How do I know whether the Data Protection Act applies to my business / organisation?

The Act will usually apply unless you are individual holding personal information for your own domestic use, e.g. an address book.

Q: I am a data controller wanting to outsource some of our information for processing purposes. What are the data protection implications?

The seventh principle of the Data Protection Act discusses security management and control of access to information. You must choose a service provider that you consider can carry out the work in a secure way and you should check that they are doing this. You should have a written contract with them that lays down how they can use and disclose the information you have entrusted to them. It must require them to take proper security measures.

Q. What is seen as ‘confidential material’?

The definition of Personal Data as laid out in the Data Protection Act is "data which relate to a living individual who can be identified". However, Confidential Material could be defined as absolutely anything that could be detrimental to your business if it were to fall into the wrong hands.

If your company maintains any of the following, you need our on-site shredding service!!

And don't forget that even old brochures, sales plans or company reports are commercially sensitive. Don't let your competitors learn the secrets of your success!