Chapel Hill, NC (PRWEB) February 24, 2015

Smarsh, the leading provider of archiving & compliance solutions for companies in regulated and litigious industries, today announced it has selected Ethical Advocate to provide the organization’s ethics hotline to meet its ethics and compliance requirements. Smarsh plans to maximize its use of the hotline by extending its coverage to key business functional areas including Finance, Data Security, and Product/Service Efficacy.

Ethical Advocate is an independent, third-party ethics and hotline company that specializes in advocating ethical culture and behavior in the workplace. Ethical Advocate provides a customized, anonymous and confidential ethics hotline service through its fully secure, encrypted web site and via a toll-free number. Both reporting methods are available 24 hours a day, every day of the year.

According to Stephen Marsh, Founder and CEO of Smarsh, “Making sure we are providing the best tool for our employees to give us feedback and let us know about things that matter to Smarsh is an important aspect of implementing the service. This provides an open channel for employees to communicate with the leadership team about any feedback. We chose Ethical Advocate because of their over 11 years of experience in all sectors, deep knowledge and easy reporting interfaces. They have also been very responsive and provided excellent customer service. Ethical Advocate’s services will meet the needs of employees with easy access to web based reporting or via the toll free phone number.”

About Smarsh (http://www.smarsh.com)

Smarsh® delivers cloud-based archiving solutions for the information-driven enterprise. Its centralized platform provides a unified compliance and e-discovery workflow across the entire range of digital communications, including email, public and enterprise social media, websites, instant messaging and mobile messaging. Founded in 2001, Smarsh helps more than 20,000 organizations meet regulatory compliance, e-discovery and record retention requirements. The company is headquartered in Portland, Ore. with offices in New York City, Atlanta, Boston, Los Angeles and London.

About Ethical Advocate

Ethical Advocate provides leading ethics, governance, risk and compliance solutions supporting the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), the Federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Sarbanes-Oxley, OSHA, and many other regulatory and reporting needs. With Ethical Advocate’s ethics hotline, persons desiring to report incidents, indiscretions, or suggestions via a hotline can do so securely, 24/7/365, with privacy and anonymity, on the Internet in 17 languages, or through its Call Center in 200 languages. Ethical Advocate also provides custom designed live Ethics Trainings and seminars. For more information, visit the website at http://www.ethicaladvocate.com or call 1-888-ETHICS 6.