Data Sanitization. At termination of the Contact, regardless of the reason for termination, the Contractor will return all data owned by the Customer in a standard electronic format of the Customer’s choosing. This shall be done no later than 30 days after termination of the Contract. Once all data has been returned and accepted by the Customer, the Contractor shall erase, destroy, and render unrecoverable all Customer-owned data and certify in writing that these actions have been completed and that destruction has been performed according to National Institute of Standards and Technology, Special Publication 800-88, “Guidelines for Media Sanitization” (2006). This shall be done within 14 days of acceptance of the data by the Customer. Notwithstanding the foregoing and Section 7, H. and I. (Security Acknowledgement), Contractor shall be permitted to maintain one archival copy of Customer-owned data for the period designated by the Customer’s retention records schedule, xxxx://xxxx.xxx.xxxxx.xx.xx/recordsmgmt/gen_records_schedules.cfm.
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