Data Security

Your data, personal information, and privacy are important to us.

When you donate laptops and computers we take the security of your data very seriously. We perform thorough procedures to ensure any and all data is wiped from every hard drive we receive for reuse. As ERRP-certified and an official Microsoft Authorized Refurbisher, we are held to high standards in every step of the refurbishment process. 

We ask that you wipe your hard drives prior to donation in compliance with PIPEDA legislation. However, whether your hard drives arrived wiped or not, their secure erasure and overwrite is our first step in the refurbishment process.

The Destroyinator - a secure hard drive wiping process

Summary of Data Wiping Procedures

Hard Drive Wipe Tools

We use LSoft Technologies Inc.’s Active KillDisk to perform the DOD Standard 5220.22M method to wipe all hard drives. This meets CSEC’s ITSG-06 security directives for sanitization of hard drives containing Unclassified and Protected-C content. Utilizing Active KillDisk’s 3-pass wipe process overwrites all sectors of the hard drive 3 times and verifies its completion. A 7-pass is available to donors seeking additional assurance. We verify all data has been successfully wiped and is unrecoverable before using the drive for reuse.

The Destroyinator is a server-based system which deploys Active KillDisk across 45 slots. Each rotation takes between 8-12 hours depending on the size and speed of the hard drive.

Data wipe verification certificates are available upon request for $10 per hard drive.