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5 ways office shredding puts your business at risk
March 16 2023 By Cleardata
Old client files, outdated company strategic planning, business research, old competitor analyses, previous employees' records...businesses generate a lot of sensitive information that ultimately has to be safely destroyed. Although office shredders are up for doing the job, they fall down in a number of areas, particularly when it comes to complia...
The impact of load-shedding on office shredding (and POPIA compliance)
February 09 2023 By Cleardata
For companies with no alternative power sources, or limited uninterrupted power supplies, performing office functions during times of sustained load-shedding can be difficult. Disposing of sensitive customer and business data during such periods is even more challenging, as leaving documents to mount up puts your company at risk of non-compliance w...
Cutting costs in 2023? Consider off-site shredding
February 02 2023 By Cleardata
It's financial yearend, which means revising budgets for the year ahead and looking for new ways to cut costs. Outsourcing document shredding is still one of the most efficient ways to securely manage document destruction, but did you know that off-site shredding saves your company even more money? While on-site shredding involves destroying confid...
5 ways to handle personal information (and comply with the POPI Act)
September 21 2022 By Cleardata
South Africa's Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act officially came into effect two years ago. Despite this, some businesses are still not clear on the dos and don'ts of the act, leaving them vulnerable to non-compliance. What does the POPI Act cover? To get an idea of what is required to ensure compliance, it's useful to first understand ...
If you handle these documents, you need a secure document shredding solution
September 21 2022 By Cleardata
Do you handle the following documents in your business? HR documents Financial documents Contracts Personal information If you answered yes to any of the above, by law you are required to have a secure document handling and destruction system in place. Already have a shredding system that you're currently using? Great - but does it comply w...
POPIA - compliant document shredding: outsourced is more cost effective
August 30 2021 By Cleardata
With the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act now mandating that customer information be safely handled and, when no longer needed, securely destroyed, businesses are looking to document shredding to ensure POPIA compliance. Standard office shredders have long been part of the traditional office setup. However, in these unprecedented times...
Staff working from home? How are they handling document destruction (and still complying with POPIA)?
August 24 2021 By Cleardata
If you or your staff have been working from home over the past year, unwanted paperwork has no doubt been piling up. But did you know that now that the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act has come into effect, you can no longer simply dispose of unneeded documents containing business or customer information in the dustbin or with your wee...
Are your document destruction practises POPIA compliant?
August 19 2021 By Cleardata
By now you have heard about the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) and the obligation on you as a corporate to appropriately gather, process and store your customers' private information in accordance with this law. But what about the way sensitive information is disposed of? According to POPIA, in much the same way confidential informa...
Document shredding: the benefits beyond just protecting company data
August 02 2021 By Cleardata
Document shredding: the benefits beyond just protecting company data With the Protection of Personal Information Act having just come into effect in South Africa, the benefits of shredding confidential company and customer information are obvious. But what about the environmental benefits, and the carbon footprint-offset offered to corporates th...
Was your business affected by the recent looting? We can help
July 26 2021 By Cleardata
Securing company and client information has become even more important now that the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act has come into effect. The act firmly places responsibility on businesses to ensure sensitive customer information is safely handled and, when no longer needed, securely destroyed. Civil unrest and looting, as recently se...
Covid-19: what SA businesses can learn from the pandemic
February 24 2021 By Cleardata
What has the Covid-19 pandemic and national lockdown taught us? Well, aside from how to make pineapple beer, home school our kids, and relocate entire offices, overnight, to our homes where Zoom meetings are occasionally accompanied by the sound of barking dogs and squawking hadedas, a lot. From a business perspective specifically, the way we think...
Optimising operational excellence through BPM
December 14 2020 By Cleardata
Business process management (BPM) might not sound like the most exciting topic of discussion, but it's a deal breaker for the companies that take the time to invest in it properly. In fact, given the volatile, unexpected nature of the business environment right now, there's probably never been a better time to implement sound business processes and...
Company values: how to get them right (and make them work for you)
September 15 2020 By Cleardata rob fedder
It was back in 2010 that I first did a company values exercise. I didn't think it would offer too much added-value to the business after all our vision was clear cut and our teams already highly efficient. But it was the 2000s - the years the dot.com bubble burst, the Enron scandal broke, and corporate governance was in the spotlight as never befor...
Need document shredding? Sign up for 12 months + get 3 months FREE
August 31 2020 By Cleardata
How does 3 months' FREE document shredding sound? Well, that's what we're offering you as a new Cleardata client. Simply sign a new 12-month contract and we'll give you 3 months' free* shredding at the end of your contract. A Cleardata contract means: Safe, secure and completely hassle-free document destruction (we do all the work for you) Signifi...
POPI is here - are you ready for it?
July 30 2020 By Rob Fedder popi act, popi, document storage, document destruction, rob fedder
With the national lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic keeping us all a little preoccupied, you might have missed the news that the Protection of Public Information (POPI) Act came into law on 1 July 2020. All businesses handling personal information have until 1 July 2021 to implement the necessary processes and procedures to ensure compl...
Our values drive everything we do
July 29 2020 By Cleardata
Here at Cleardata we take our role as custodian of sensitive company and customer data seriously. Everything we do is driven by our three core values. We are different Fuelled by optimism and passion for our colleagues and customers makes us stand out from our competitors. We own it Operating from an owner's mind-set, we take ownership of what we...
25% off your next Cleardata ad-hoc shredding booking
July 29 2020 By Cleardata
Lockdown levels got you confused? Here's one thing that's clear-cut right now: 25% off your next ad-hoc shredding booking with Cleardata. Whether you've got confidential documents in several locations as a result of remote-working staff, or just have a lot more documents than usual to shred, we're giving you a 25% discount on any ad-hoc shredding b...
Regular or remote: maximise productivity wherever your office is
June 09 2020 By Rob Fedder rob fedder, remote working
As we navigate this strange new business landscape we find ourselves in, we're all looking for ways to optimise the way we work. The truth is, from now onwards, most people won't work exclusively from one location, and will need to find effective ways to move between working from a conventional office to working from home. At the beginning of lockd...
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update - 4 May 2020
May 04 2020 By Cleardata covid-19, coronavirus
We continue to face an enormous challenge as the coronavirus pandemic impacts just about every aspect of our lives. We are very much part of our clients' business continuity plans and protect information for millions of people. We're monitoring local conditions in our territories of operation very closely and will adjust as needed. In South Africa,...
What document destruction service do you need when you return to work?
April 30 2020 By Cleardata
What document destruction service do you need when you return to work? Part of your return-to-work strategy needs to include document destruction. Protect your workplace and your sensitive business and customer data while reducing back-to-work clutter with our secure document destruction services. Choose from our convenient on-site document destruc...