London pharmacy fined after “careless” storage of patient data

• By Andrew Pegg
• 22 Dec 2019
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  The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined a London-based pharmacy £275,000 for failing to ensure the security of special category data. Doorstep Dispensaree Ltd, which supplies medicines to customers and care homes, left approximately 500,000 documents in unlocked containers at the back of its premises in Edgware. The documents included names, addresses, dates of […]

Confidential Shredding Case study – Off site shredding

• By Andrew Pegg
• 18 Dec 2019
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Case study – F & R Cawley Limited in Luton F & R cawley Ltd (Cawleys) trust Lindens Confidential to take care of all their confidential waste, good news for their customers, all their confidential documents! Cawleys have around 200 employees with 1000s of customers and many subcontractors. These all generate sensitive paperwork, despite strenuous […]

Recycling your confidential shredded documents

• By Andrew Pegg
• 15 Dec 2019
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Is your shredded paper being recycled?  Did you know that most large waste and recycling centres that sort out waste use advanced infrared detectors that sort waste out by identifying the material and firing fine air jets to seperate the different materials. Due to the nature of shredded paper, these machines get confused and end […]

An office console – How does it work?

• By Andrew Pegg
• 11 Nov 2019
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You currently have documents on paper that have your customer or staff details on which now need to be destroyed to stay within GDPR regulations.  You can get a regular collection from Lindens Confidential which can be typically weekly to every 8 weeks to suit you requirements.  We will deliver a smart wooden office console […]

Shredding – What is it? Why do you need it?

• By Andrew Pegg
• 11 Nov 2019
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Shredding – Confidential Secure Service You have a duty of care to your employees, customers/ patients. Sometimes there is a framework in place to make it a legal requirement to have an accredited company do your shredding. For others there is a legal requirement under GDPR to make sure no personal information is kept longer […]

What makes us different?

• By Andrew Pegg
• 11 Nov 2019
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We Are a small team that are honest, helpful and friendly We pride ourselves on friendliness and helpfulness. If there is anything you need to know or need clarification of ask one of our staff who visit you. They are all very knowledgeable and friendly.  Our competitors typically lock you into a long contract, sometimes […]

GDPR Penalties

• By Andrew Pegg
• 11 Nov 2019
• 0

The below is from the Information Commissioners Website (The ICO are the body enforcing GDPR in the UK)   What penalties can the Information Commissioner issue? The Information Commissioner has the power to issue a monetary penalty for an infringement of the provisions of Part 3 of the Act – Law Enforcement Processing. Any penalty […]