Accreditation is an interesting term and other than accreditation provided through the International Standards Organization (ISO), or the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) which is a proprietary program created by a private, for-profit or not-for-profit Industry Trade Association to add credibility to a firm’s reputation, if the member pursues it.

Significant costs are assessed to a prospective member in order to become accredited, proposing a significant additional income stream to the Association. We believe this Association-bestowed accreditation is a testament to an association member’s willingness to seek the accreditation and is not necessarily akin to the quality of their product or process, unlike Bureau Reseller Certification which can only be achieved and maintained if the product and the process are proven to the host provider on a daily basis. In short, a Bureau Reseller loses its ability to resell information from its primary sources if non-compliant.

Compliance is thus forced and not voluntary.

APSCREEN as the oldest, continuously operated factual employment screening company in the U.S. (Since 1980); a Certified Consumer Reporting Agency, and a Certified Reseller of all three Consumer Reporting Agencies (EXPERIAN, EQUIFAX and TRANSUNION) maintains a reseller compliance regimen to the “EXPERIAN Standard”, the most rigorous in the information industry. We do not believe that, as a fully compliant & Certified 3-Bureau Reseller that we need to duplicate efforts in order to receive proprietary trade association “accreditation”, since our annual re-certification as a reseller bureau confirms 100% ongoing compliance with FACTA, FCRA, G-L-B & IRSG as well as uniform daily implementation of bureau reseller policies, affording the ultimate protection in Consumer Privacy and the safeguarding against Identity Theft, which is what “compliance”, “certification” and “accreditation” are ultimately all about; imprimis.