Methods of storing and retrieving communications, information, and documents

A method of storing and retrieving a document with different levels of document security provided for different portions of the document, comprising:

• creating a data set corresponding to a document and storing the data set in a database, the document comprising a plurality of portions, the storing utilizing software configured to save a plurality of machine-readable identifier codes associated with the data set in the database;
• the identifier codes identifying the different portions of the document;
• the database being accessible to a plurality of users;
• some portions of the document being defined as secure portions and other portions being defined as non-secure portions;
• some users having authorization to access non-secure portions of the document and not having authorization to access secure portions of the document;
• the users being assigned access codes which identify if the users have clearance to access secure portions of the document;
• printing the non-secure portions of the document together with at least some of the identifier codes on a substrate;
• providing the identifier codes to a processor in data-communication with the database, the processor being configured to retrieve both the secure and the non-secure portions of the document and to send the retrieved portions of the document to an output device;
• the processor being further configured to recognize if an access code provides clearance to secure portions of the document:
• requiring a user to input its individual access code to the processor before secure portions of the document are sent to the output device;
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• the processor sending secure portions of the document to the output device only if the inputted individual access code indicates that the user has clearance to obtain the secure portions.