India DPDP Act Compliance — Run and Evidence Your Programme in One Platform
Privacy360 gives organisations processing Indian personal data the operational system for DPDP compliance — processing records, consent, data principal rights, breach notification, transfers and vendor oversight, all with audit-ready evidence.
Built by Formiti Data International — a global outsourced DPO service operating across 90+ jurisdictions, including India.
What the DPDP Act expects
- Documented processing of digital personal data with clear purposes
- Free, specific, informed and unambiguous consent — or a legitimate use
- Working rights and grievance mechanisms for data principals
- Breach notification to the Data Protection Board of India
- Additional duties for Significant Data Fiduciaries
[TEAM REVIEW: confirm final statutory wording and citations before publication.]
How Privacy360 operationalises DPDP compliance
The DPDP Act sets the obligations; Privacy360 turns them into owned, tracked and evidenced workflows your team actually runs — alongside your GDPR and other privacy programmes in the same platform.
RoPA-style processing records for India
Maintain a structured record of processing activities covering Indian personal data — purposes, data categories, data principals, processors and retention — so your DPDP obligations rest on a documented foundation rather than spreadsheets.
Consent and notice management
Record notices given to data principals, track consent capture and withdrawal, and keep the evidence needed to show consent was free, specific, informed and unambiguous. [TEAM REVIEW: confirm final statutory wording and citations before publication.]
Data principal rights workflows
Intake, verify, route and fulfil access, correction, erasure and grievance requests with SLAs and a defensible audit trail — the same DSAR engine used for GDPR, configured for DPDP timelines.
Breach notification to the Data Protection Board
Assess personal data breaches, document the decision and prepare notifications to the Data Protection Board of India and affected data principals, with the full incident record retained as evidence.
Cross-border transfer oversight
Map transfers of Indian personal data to other jurisdictions, record the safeguards in place and keep destination decisions under review as the government's restricted-country list evolves. [TEAM REVIEW: confirm current transfer restrictions before publication.]
Significant Data Fiduciary readiness
For organisations notified as Significant Data Fiduciaries, track the additional obligations — DPO appointment, independent audits and periodic assessments — as owned, evidenced tasks in the platform. [TEAM REVIEW: confirm final SDF obligations wording before publication.]
Vendor and processor oversight
Assess processors handling Indian personal data, centralise contracts and due diligence evidence, and keep sub-processor chains visible alongside your processing records.
Audit-ready evidence and reporting
Every assessment, consent record, request and incident is timestamped and exportable, giving leadership and auditors a single view of DPDP programme health.
How it works
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Map your Indian personal data
Build the record of processing activities that covers Indian data principals, purposes, systems and processors in one register.
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Operationalise consent and rights
Put notices, consent capture, withdrawal and data principal requests into tracked workflows with owners and deadlines.
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Prepare for breaches and scrutiny
Stand up breach assessment and notification workflows, and keep the evidence trail the Data Protection Board would expect to see.
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Keep the programme current
Review transfers, vendors and Significant Data Fiduciary obligations on a schedule, with remediation tracked to closure.
What your team gets
One register
For all Indian processing activities, consents and transfers
72 hours
Breach assessment workflows adapted from regulator-tested GDPR processes
100%
Of requests and incidents evidenced from intake to closure
- India obligations managed alongside GDPR and other regimes in one platform
- Regional India hosting available through enterprise scoping
- Formiti's DPO team available for expert delivery alongside the platform
Built on ROPA Records, DSAR Management, Breach Management and Data Transfer Assessment in the Privacy360 platform. India hosting options are covered on our data residency page.
Frequently asked questions
- What is the DPDP Act and who does it apply to?
- India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 governs the processing of digital personal data in India, and certain processing outside India connected to offering goods or services to data principals in India. It applies to organisations acting as data fiduciaries — the equivalent of controllers — and their processors. [TEAM REVIEW: confirm final statutory wording and citations before publication.]
- How does Privacy360 help with DPDP compliance specifically?
- Privacy360 gives you the operational system for a DPDP programme: processing records covering Indian data, consent and notice tracking, data principal rights workflows, breach assessment and notification, transfer oversight and vendor management — all with an audit-ready evidence trail. The same platform runs GDPR and other regimes, so multinational teams manage India alongside their other obligations in one place.
- Does Privacy360 support Significant Data Fiduciary obligations?
- Yes. Organisations notified as Significant Data Fiduciaries carry additional duties, including appointing a DPO and completing periodic audits and assessments. Privacy360 tracks these as owned, scheduled and evidenced tasks, linked to the underlying records. [TEAM REVIEW: confirm final SDF obligations wording before publication.]
- Can we host Privacy360 data in India?
- Privacy360 supports regional deployment discussions for organisations with India data residency requirements, confirmed during enterprise scoping and onboarding. See our data residency page for the regional deployment model.
- What is the difference between the platform and Formiti's DPDP service?
- Privacy360 is the software platform your team uses to run and evidence DPDP compliance. Formiti Data International's India DPDP Act compliance service provides the expert delivery around it — gap assessments, programme design, DPO support and implementation — for organisations that want specialist help alongside or instead of an in-house team.
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