DPDPA Compliance Services

A record of what personal data you hold, where it moves, who processes it and on what basis, built from systems rather than from questionnaires.

Consent notices and capture flows written to the Act's specificity requirement, including withdrawal being as easy as giving consent.

A workable process for access, correction, erasure and nomination requests, with the verification step that stops a request becoming a breach.

The internal escalation route the Act requires before an individual can approach the Data Protection Board, with published contact details.

Detection tied to your existing monitoring, plus a rehearsed notification path covering both the Board and affected individuals.

Where designation is likely, the additional duties are prepared in advance: DPO appointment, independent audit and impact assessment.

Assessment of where your processing sends data, against both the Act and any sectoral rule that binds your industry more tightly.

Retention schedules and the deletion mechanics behind them, because a policy that nothing enforces is not an erasure control.

It applies to personal data processed in digital form in India, and to processing outside India where goods or services are offered to individuals in India. It does not cover personal data made publicly available by the individual themselves, or processing for purely personal or domestic purposes.

A data fiduciary determines the purpose and means of processing. A processor acts on the fiduciary's behalf under contract. The Act places its obligations on the fiduciary, who remains answerable for processing carried out by a processor on its instruction.

The Central Government designates significant data fiduciaries based on factors including the volume and sensitivity of personal data processed, risk to data principals, and impact on the sovereignty and integrity of India. Designation brings additional duties: a data protection officer based in India, an independent data auditor, and periodic data protection impact assessments.

Yes. The Act requires notification to the Data Protection Board and to each affected data principal. Unlike some regimes, it sets no materiality or risk threshold below which a breach need not be reported.

The Act permits transfer except to territories the Central Government restricts by notification. Sectoral regulators may impose stricter localisation requirements that continue to apply, so the position depends on which regulators bind you as well as on the Act.

The Act sets a schedule of financial penalties determined by the Data Protection Board, with the highest tier attaching to a failure to take reasonable security safeguards to prevent a personal data breach. Penalties are assessed on the nature, gravity and duration of the breach among other factors.

No. The Act also allows processing for certain legitimate uses, including where an individual voluntarily provides data for a specified purpose, and for functions of the State, employment purposes, and specified emergencies. Where consent is the basis, it must be free, specific, informed, unconditional and unambiguous.

There is meaningful overlap in principles, so existing GDPR work is a useful starting point rather than wasted effort. The regimes differ in important places, including breach reporting thresholds, the consent manager mechanism, the treatment of legitimate uses, and the absence of a general legitimate-interests basis.