What counts as a Significant Data Fiduciary, and does that apply to us?

The government designates certain Data Fiduciaries as "Significant" based on factors like volume and sensitivity of data processed, and risk to the rights of Data Principals. That designation brings additional obligations — appointing a Data Protection Officer based in India, independent data audits, and data protection impact assessments. We help you assess where you currently stand and prepare for that tier if it’s a realistic trajectory.

How is this different from GDPR compliance we may already have?

There’s meaningful overlap in principles — consent, purpose limitation, data subject rights — but the DPDP Act has its own specific mechanics: a narrower, more consent-centric legal basis structure, a "Consent Manager" concept unique to the Indian framework, and different breach-notification and cross-border-transfer rules. Existing GDPR infrastructure is a strong starting point, not a substitute.

What happens if we have a personal data breach?

The Act requires notifying the Data Protection Board of India and, in relevant cases, the affected Data Principals. The practical challenge is almost always detection and internal escalation speed, not the notification itself — which is why we focus heavily on the instrumentation and runbooks that get a breach identified and reported before the delay itself becomes a compliance failure.

Can you help with the legal side too, or only engineering?

Our focus is the product and engineering work — consent flows, data architecture, rights fulfillment, breach response systems — that most compliance programs underinvest in. We work alongside your legal counsel or DPO rather than replacing them, and can support with the technical documentation they need.

DPDP COMPLIANCE

Compliance that livesin your code, not a binder.

India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act applies to any organization processing the personal data of people in India, regardless of where the company is based. We help engineering and product teams turn its obligations — consent, data rights, breach response — into working systems, not a policy document that doesn’t match what the product actually does.

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The Act treats personal data protection as a design requirement.

The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 is built around two roles: the Data Fiduciary (the organization deciding how and why data is processed) and the Data Principal (the individual the data belongs to). Every obligation in the Act — clear notice, purpose limitation, data minimization, timely breach reporting, and honoring a Data Principal’s rights — has to be true of your actual system at the moment a user interacts with it, not just true on paper. That’s the gap most compliance programs run into: a privacy policy can promise data minimization, but only the engineering behind data collection forms, retention jobs, and access-request handling can actually deliver it. We work at that layer.

LocationRemote-first, global engagements

IndustryData Protection Compliance

Cooperation periodReadiness review or ongoing compliance support

Services used

Consent architectureRights fulfillment systemsBreach response designDPO advisory support

WHY IT’S DIFFERENT FROM A POLICY REWRITE

DPDP compliance is a product and engineering problem, not just a legal one.

Consentas a system, not a checkboxGranular, itemized, and as easy to withdraw as it was to give — that’s an engineering requirement, not a clause.

6Data Principal rightsAccess, correction, erasure, grievance redressal, nomination, and withdrawal — each needs a working flow, not a mailbox.

Breachnotification workflowDetecting, assessing, and reporting a personal data breach on a clock starts with instrumentation, not intent.

Board-readydocumentationEvery control we help you build is documented in a form that holds up to Data Protection Board scrutiny.

The obligations we help you operationalize.

Organized around the three relationships the Act actually governs: the individual, the organization, and the regulator.

Data Principal side

Clear, itemized notice at collection
Right to access & correction
Right to erasure & withdrawal of consent
Nomination & grievance redressal

Data Fiduciary side

Purpose limitation & data minimization
Retention limits & deletion on purpose completion
Children’s data & parental consent handling
Cross-border transfer restrictions

Regulator & incident side

Data Protection Board reporting
Personal data breach notification
Significant Data Fiduciary obligations
Data protection impact assessments

OUR APPROACH

What DPDP compliance engineering covers.

THE GAP

A privacy notice is a promise. Your product is what actually keeps it.

Consent that’s granular in the notice but bundled in the database isn’t compliant consent — it’s a policy document describing a system that doesn’t exist.

A right to erasure only holds up if deletion actually reaches every backup, replica, and downstream analytics table it was copied to.

Cross-border transfer restrictions apply the moment data leaves the country, whether or not your architecture diagram was built with that boundary in mind.

Regulators, auditors, and enterprise customers are increasingly asking to see the system, not just the policy.

A privacy notice is a promise. Your product is what actually keeps it.

ENGAGEMENT

How a DPDP readiness engagement runs.

Data mapping

We inventory what personal data you collect, why, where it flows, and who can access it — the foundation every other obligation depends on.

Gap assessment

We compare your current consent, rights-handling, and breach-response processes against the Act’s requirements and flag exactly where product and engineering changes are needed.

Design & build

We design and implement the consent flows, rights-request systems, and retention automation needed to close the gaps identified — working alongside your engineering team.

Documentation & handover

You leave with working systems and the documentation — data maps, DPIAs, response runbooks — needed to demonstrate compliance to auditors, partners, or the Board.

FAQ

Common questions on DPDP compliance.

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Yes, if you process the personal data of individuals located in India in connection with offering goods or services to them. Location of incorporation doesn’t exempt an organization — what matters is whose data is being processed and in what context.

Can't find what you're looking for? Reach out to our engineering team directly.

Find out where your product actually stands.

A DPDP readiness review maps your real data flows against the Act’s requirements — no generic checklist, no policy template that doesn’t match your product.

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Compliance that livesin your code, not a binder.

The Act treats personal data protection as a design requirement.

A privacy notice is a promise. Your product is what actually keeps it.

Consent that’s granular in the notice but bundled in the database isn’t compliant consent — it’s a policy document describing a system that doesn’t exist.

A right to erasure only holds up if deletion actually reaches every backup, replica, and downstream analytics table it was copied to.

Cross-border transfer restrictions apply the moment data leaves the country, whether or not your architecture diagram was built with that boundary in mind.

Regulators, auditors, and enterprise customers are increasingly asking to see the system, not just the policy.

Compliance that livesin your code, not a binder.

The Act treats personal data protection as a design requirement.

DPDP compliance is a product and engineering problem, not just a legal one.