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Toshiba Trade-In - Get up to £175 each
Get up to £175 Trade in for your old Laptop when you buy a new Toshiba Laptop until 31st March 2008
Saving you money, providing peace of mind
By purchasing new Toshiba laptops, we can help you offset the cost by releasing the financial value in your old laptops, irrespective of their manufacturer.
Not only will Toshiba give you up to £175 back for each laptop you trade in (depending on their specification and condition) but you can rest assured that you are taking part in an ethical process that is both environmentally friendly and gives you 100% reassurance that any data remaining on your old equipment will be securely erased.
Toshiba’s partnership with leading IT asset disposal organisation Tier 1 Asset Management offers you the only cost effective solution that is both secure and ethical; it pays to trade in with Toshiba.
Please note that these are indicative prices only, and final valuations are dependant on Tier 1's assessment according to their Grading Policy.
Am I eligible to benefit?
The Toshiba trade in programme is open to all business customers in the UK, irrespective of how many Toshiba laptops you are buying and how many laptops you have to trade in.
The trade in value will be determined by Tier 1 after you have purchased your new Toshiba laptops and Tier 1 have taken delivery and assessed your old laptop estate.
Toshiba Trade-In - Disposal
Process
Thank you for considering the Toshiba trade-in programme. Not only will this help you lower the total cost of your new acquisitions by releasing the value of your old equipment, but you can rest assured that you have chosen an ethical solution to the problem of your end of life IT assets. By being 100% certain that your laptops will undergo a secure data erasure process and that you are complying with all environmental and data protection legislation and directives, your legal and social responsibilities are all covered.
Summary
- Register online click here
- Accept Terms and Conditions of Toshiba Trade In Programme
- Arrange free collection of old laptops for trade-in.
- Laptop condition assessed and graded
- Data erasure process
- Confirmation of trade-in unit values. PO issued
- Cheque raised within 5 working days on receipt of invoice
In detail
STEP 1
No matter how many laptops you wish to trade in, please complete the contact details on the online registration form and then submit. Please remember that the matrix outlining the value of your old laptops gives an indicative price only and the final value of your traded in laptops will be determined once they have assessed by Tier 1.
Laptops in poor condition or missing items such as power cables may affect your final valuation. If you are unsure of how to your machines will be graded, consult our Grading Policy here. You are then ready to tell us that you wish to proceed with the trade-in programme.
Once Tier 1 has received your details, you will receive an email acknowledging your registration and explaining the next steps in the process.
STEP 2
Are you trading in under 10 laptops? If not, proceed to step 3.
If yes, your registration page has space for you to briefly describe the make, model and specification of the laptops you wish to trade in. Once Tier 1 has received your details, they will email you to explain what happens next, give you some important information and ask for your permission to proceed.
STEP 3
Tier 1 will send you enough ready-labelled boxes and packaging to ensure the laptops reach them safely and quickly. This package will also include the necessary details of how to package your laptops, an inventory of the equipment you are sending, a Collection ID number and how to arrange collection and delivery.
We will also require you to confirm that you have read the terms and conditions of the offer, confirm that the equipment you are sending matches the inventory you have submitted and include a photocopy of the invoice for your newly-purchased Toshiba laptops.
Please ensure that the address and contact details you fill in before you submit your request to trade-in are accurate. A UPS courier will collect the packages at no expense to you. Companies wishing to insure their old laptops before they are sent do so at their own expense.
STEP 4
Laptops arriving at Tier 1 are logged and labelled, then booked into their Asset Management System to fast-track them through the process. Firstly, the condition of each laptop will be assessed in line with our Grading Policy, and those that pass will proceed to have all data erased using Blancco Data Erasure Technology.
Blancco’s advanced Data Erasure Technology ensures the secure removal of data from all types of hard drives enabling its clients to achieve compliancy with global security and privacy regulations. This solution not only conforms to the highest standards and regulations, but also exceeds legislative requirements; including INFOSEC 5 and US Department of Defence 5220.22-M. Detailed gapless audit reporting completely mitigates the exposure to legal liabilities or loss of corporate assets. For more information, please feel free to look at the Blancco website at www.blancco.com
STEP 5
Owners of failing laptops – ie those whose grading puts them in a state beyond economic repair – will be contacted by email to offer two possible choices. That is to either i) confirm that you give permission for the equipment to be disposed of by Tier 1 in an environmentally friendly manner as per WEEE directives with guaranteed data erasure; or ii) to request that you arrange collection of the equipment.
STEP 6
On rare occasions, laptops fail to pass the data wipe process. In these cases, you will be notified by email and offered two possible alternatives: i) to confirm that you give permission for the equipment to be disposed of by Tier 1 in an environmentally friendly manner as per WEEE directives with guaranteed data erasure; or ii) to request that you arrange collection of the equipment.
When your laptops have passed through the data wipe, customers will be contacted by email by Tier 1 with confirmation of the equipment’s final value together with a consignment test report. This valuation will form the purchase order value from which you will raise an invoice
STEP 7
Confirmation that you are happy to proceed with the buy-back needs to be emailed back to Tier 1 in addition to an invoice for the amount agreed in our valuation. If you are VAT registered, please send confirmation of your VAT Registration details. Please also remember to include your unique Collection ID reference number that you were given when your laptops were dispatched to Tier 1
STEP 8
Tier 1 will send you your cheque within 5 working days of receipt of invoice.
Toshiba Trade-In - Secure Data Removal
Toshiba and Tier 1 are acutely aware that IT departments face increasing pressure to assure the confidentiality of corporate and client data. This confidentiality has always been an issue of ethical concern, but legislation to protect the privacy of individuals’ records has now made it a legal concern as well. Whilst you will have a strategy in place for securing information within your networks, there comes a time when your IT equipment is retired from active service and that is when a company can lose control over protecting the confidentiality of the company’s and individuals’ data.
Integrity through experience
With many years’ experience of managing the end of life IT assets of blue chip organisations on massive scales Tier 1 fully understands these needs and uses Blancco technology to ensure the following:
- 100% fast and secure erasure
- Digitally protected auditable reporting, meeting and exceeding any compliance or regulatory requirements concerning data erasure
- Data which has been erased by Blancco cannot be recovered with any existing technology
Our understanding of the issues faced by companies becomes even more pertinent when faced with the fact that more and IT equipment is coming offline every day. More is being reused and recycled than ever before and with growing emphasis on organisations’ corporate social responsibility, the final locations of your retired IT equipment are becoming increasingly diverse.
Security and legal compliance
The only way to prevent inadvertent file sharing, other than destruction and scrap, is to sanitise hard drives before they reach the equipment’s new owner. Tier 1 manages the costs and risks involved and ensures that all data is permanently erased before any equipment is re-used, re-marketed or recycled. In addition, recognising that our clients expose themselves to a multitude of legal, business and PR repercussions should any confidential data be leaked, our methods are scrupulously thorough, as one would expect of an organisation with CESG INFOSEC 5 accreditation, and we work to a standard that meets the US Department of Defence criteria. As part of our service, we provide a Certificate of Data Integrity.
As a registered data controller, Tier 1’s processes ensure that we they both meet and exceed the standards set out in the 1998 Data Protection Act. In order to confirm the integrity of their own procedure, Tier 1 are independently audited as the success of our data wiping process, providing even more peace of mind to our clients.
Toshiba Trade-In - Environment
RoHS / WEEE
The Toshiba Trade In Programme compliments environmental directives that are already, and soon to become law in the UK and EU.
The European Union Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive came into force on 1st July 2006. It restricts the use of a number of hazardous materials in electrical and electronic products, including laptops.
Toshiba is committed to exceed compliance obligations by at least meeting the requirements of the RoHS Directive on a worldwide basis. By 1st July 2006, RoHS substances were virtually eliminated (to levels below legal limits) for all Toshiba laptops subject to the RoHS Directive.*
WEEE Directive and RoHS Directive Compliance
In addition to Toshiba’s own environmental policies building towards a sustainable society, the Group is working hard to be at the forefront of European Union (EU) directive implementation regarding waste from electrical and electronic equipment, and in minimising the use of environmentally sensitive materials
Background
The WEEE (waste from electrical and electronic equipment) directive was officially put before Parliament on Tuesday 12th December 2006 and is expected to become law in January 2007. This EU Directive is aimed primarily at ‘producers’ of equipment, including IT, and intended to protect the quality of the environment and human health through the prudent use of natural resources and the adoption of waste management strategies that focus on recycling and reuse. The EU RoHS Directive (the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment) is intended to reduce the use of substances that may pose risks to human health or the environment
WEEE Directive
As part of Toshiba’s commitment to intelligent and high quality design, it is working with design teams, suppliers, and other partners to determine best practice end-of-life strategies for Toshiba laptop PCs, options and peripherals
Toshiba is committed to the timely implementation of the WEEE directive:
- Toshiba has followed its development since the beginning of 1998 and participated in related working groups on national and EU levels
- In April 2003 Toshiba established a European Environmental Department responsible for WEEE implementation in Europe
The European Environmental Department is responsible for taking all necessary measures to be in compliance with the WEEE directive, including the transition in each EU-Member State’s national law which includes:
- Registration in all EU countries directly or via sales partners
- Labelling of products which became effective on 13th August 2005
- Reporting of quantities sold
EU RoHS
Toshiba’s Computer Systems Division has a history in working to conserve natural resources and to minimise the use of environmentally sensitive materials:
- In 1998, Toshiba was first to launch an environmentally-conscious laptop with a Halogen-Antimony free PCB
- In 2004, the Portégé M300 was the first laptop which used a Pb free main PCB
- In September 2005, Toshiba launched the first fully RoHS compliant laptop - the Tecra S3** - setting a mandate that all products subsequently developed and brought to market would be RoHS compliant by April 2006
- As of April 2006, Toshiba manufacture only RoHS compliant laptopsToshiba has modified its corporate standards to fully meet the requirements of the RoHS Directive
Toshiba Environmental Policy
Umbrella approach to the environment
Toshiba has demonstrated it’s commitment to building a sustainable society by building environmental considerations into corporate management.
Toshiba is promoting environmental management in all products and business processes from manufacturing and usage, to the recycling of end-of-life products.
Environmental Vision 2010
Environmental Vision 2010 is Toshiba’s environmental initiative to double the Groups’ overall eco-efficiency by 2010 compared with 2000.
Demonstrating environmental policy leadership, Toshiba aims to improve product eco-efficiency by 2.2 times and business process eco-efficiency by 1.2 times by 2010, compared to 2000.
* Except where it was widely recognised that there is no technically feasible alternative.
Toshiba has actively investigated alternatives to the use of lead in its electrical and electronic products, while ensuring that product quality is not compromised.
(** Not launched in UK)
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