This isn't legal advice, and you shouldn't treat it as such
Parts of this site describe what federal and Colorado law require of organizations disposing of IT equipment. Where we say what a specific rule provides, we name the rule, and where a document's version or withdrawal date changes the answer we give that too. That's deliberate, and it's so you can check us rather than trust us.
We'll also be straight about the limits of that. Not every sentence on this site carries a citation: some describe how a process works rather than what a rule provides, and some summarize a rule we've cited elsewhere on the same page. Where you see a specific legal requirement asserted without a source, treat it as a gap on our part rather than as something we've verified and withheld, and tell us so we can fix it.
R2 Revive is not a law firm, and we don't provide legal advice or legal services. We're a company that collects and processes retired IT equipment, and the regulatory sections here exist because you can't scope that work without knowing what the rules say.
It is still general information about how the rules work. It is not advice about your situation, and nothing here creates a professional relationship of any kind between you and us.
Your obligations depend on facts we don't know: what data you hold, which contracts bind you, what your own policies say, which regulator supervises you, and what your counsel and compliance function have already decided. Two organizations in the same building can owe different duties on the same pallet of laptops.
Before you act on anything here, check it with the people whose job that is. Your legal counsel, your privacy officer, your records manager, your contracting officer, your security team. If a page here contradicts one of them, they are right and we are a website.
What we've tried to do instead
Give you the citation, so you can read the source yourself rather than take a vendor's summary of it.
Say when something is a recommendation rather than a requirement, because a good deal of what this industry calls mandatory turns out to be guidance when you read it. Where a rule says "should" rather than "shall," we say so.
Tell you when we don't know, and leave a question open rather than guess at it. Whether a particular decision is yours, your contracting officer's or your counsel's is usually that kind of question, and it turns on facts about your organization that we have no way to see. A vendor who answers it confidently is guessing with your risk.
Things change, and some of this will go out of date
Regulations are amended. Standards are withdrawn and replaced. The main federal guideline this site discusses was superseded in September 2025, and a great many vendor pages still cite the withdrawn version as though it were current.
Where a date is what makes a source unreliable, we give it, and the disclaimer block at the foot of each regulatory page carries the date that page's content was last reviewed. We'll be wrong about something eventually. If you find it, tell us and we'll fix it and say that we did.
About certifications, ours and anyone's
Where this site describes a certification program, that's a description of the program, not a claim about us.
Our own certification status is stated on the standards page and it is the only place that governs. Certification claims are verifiable through the certifying bodies' own directories, and you should verify ours the same way you'd verify anyone's.
Naming a standard, a certifying body or a regulator on this site doesn't imply that any of them endorses, sponsors or is affiliated with us. None of them do.
About the photographs on this site
The photographs on this site are illustrative. They are not photographs of our facility, our staff, our equipment, or work we have carried out. They were generated. They are here to show the kind of work this industry involves, not to document ours.
The devices shown are illustrative too. Where hardware resembles a recognisable tablet, phone or laptop, that is to show the equipment types we handle. No manufacturer sponsors, endorses or is affiliated with R2 Revive, and no image should be read as evidence that we have worked on a particular make or model.
We say this plainly because the rest of the site turns on not claiming things that aren't true. A generated photograph is a claim if you let it stand as evidence, and it would be the same kind of claim we spend these pages telling you to check. When we photograph our own operation, this section will say so and these images will be replaced.
Every diagram is a different matter. Those are drawn from the sources cited beside them, and the labels in them are set by hand rather than generated, precisely so that a citation can't come out garbled.
Links to other people's sites
We link to regulators, standards bodies and manufacturers so you can read primary sources directly. Those sites are theirs, not ours. We don't control what they publish and a link isn't an endorsement.
No guarantee, and no reliance
We don't warrant that everything here is complete, current or free of error, and we're not liable for what happens if you rely on it without checking. That's a standard thing for a website to say, and it would be a weak thing to rest on, so we'd rather point at what we actually did: put the citation next to the claim, keep a written record of every claim and its source, and correct the ones that turned out to be wrong.
Questions about anything on this page: get in touch.