built in, not bolted onThe Act doesn't care what industry you're in — it cares whether you touch personal data. Any of these put you in scope:
- Collecting customer names, phone numbers, emails, or payment details online
- Storing employee records — HR systems count as personal data too
- Sharing data with vendors, processors, or outsourced teams
- Serving users or employees outside India
- Running analytics, tracking pixels, or cookies on a website or app
- Digitizing old paper records that contain anyone's personal details
The Digital Personal Data Protection Act became law in 2023. Breach-reporting obligations are already active under India's existing CERT-In rules, the Data Protection Board has been set up to hear complaints, and the remaining provisions are being switched on in phases. Waiting for the final deadline usually means retrofitting consent and security into a live product under pressure — doing it now is cheaper and calmer.
Data audit
Map what personal data you collect, where it actually lives, and who inside (and outside) your company can touch it.
Consent & notices
Rewrite your notices in plain language and build consent capture that records real proof — not just a checkbox that disappears.
Access & security controls
Lock down who can reach personal data, encrypt what needs encrypting, and log what needs logging.
Rights-request tooling
A real flow for people to see, correct, or delete their data — not a request that lands in a shared inbox and gets forgotten.
Vendor review
Check what your processors and sub-processors are actually doing with the data you hand them.
Ongoing monitoring
A retainer to keep the system compliant as your product — and the rules — keep changing.
- A lawful, specific reason for collecting each piece of data
- A clear notice, in plain language, before you collect it
- Consent that's genuinely opt-in and just as easy to withdraw as to give
- Reasonable security safeguards against leaks and misuse
- A way to report a breach quickly once you know about it
- Letting people see, correct, or delete their own data on request
- Deleting data once you no longer have a real reason to keep it
- Extra care with children's data and cases needing a guardian's consent
We build the system, not just the roadmap
The same engineers who audit your data flows write the consent and access-control code — no handoff to a separate implementation team.
Direct access to the person doing the work
Your questions go to the engineer on your project, not an account manager relaying them.
One team for the whole stack
The studio already building your product can build the compliance layer inside it, instead of you coordinating a second vendor.
Support doesn't stop at go-live
Ongoing retainer coverage as both your product and the regulations keep moving.
Size isn't really the test — whether you collect personal data is. A ten-person startup with a sign-up form is in scope the same as a large enterprise.
Not sure where your systems stand under DPDP?
A short audit call is usually enough to tell you what's missing and what it'll take to close the gap.