Records retention schedule

your own retention policy — not confirmedEnforced by whoever advises your organization on record keeping.Next: the law, contract or policy your periods actually come from — CompliMaint has read none of them and supplies no period

Your record classes and the retention periods you have set for each, with the basis you recorded.

Not one period is supplied, and none is suggested

The retention period box is empty and its placeholder does not read “7 years”. That is deliberate: a number in greyed text is a default with plausible deniability, people accept placeholders, and a period this product suggested would be read as a requirement by the next person to open the schedule. Retention periods come from law, from contracts, from insurers and from your own policy, and they differ by class, by jurisdiction and by industry.

The basis field is what makes the schedule usable

A period with no stated reason is a number somebody will argue with in three years, and nobody will remember. Recording where yours came from — your own policy, advice you took, a contract term — is what lets the next person either rely on it or revisit it. CompliMaint takes no view on whether the basis you recorded supports the period you set.

Related record-keeping tools: Records destruction log · Document control register · Policy register

A schedule of your own record classes and periods. CompliMaint supplies no retention period, no example and no class list, makes no compliance claim, and destroys nothing. Everything runs on your device.

Questions people ask

How long do I have to keep something?
CompliMaint does not know and will not guess. It supplies no retention period, no example, no minimum and no maximum, and offers no list of classes to copy. What you must keep and for how long is a question for somebody who knows your organization and your jurisdiction.
Does keeping this schedule make me compliant?
No. It makes no claim that a schedule kept here satisfies any law, regulator, standard or audit. It is a place to write down decisions you have made.
Does it delete anything when a period runs out?
No. Nothing here counts down, expires or acts. Destroying records is something a person decides to do, and the destruction log is a separate, dated record of what they say they did.
Can I have different schedules for different sites?
Yes. The schedule is kept against whichever organization or site you pick, and two subjects never share rows.