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DPDP Act compliance in India means aligning how your business collects, stores, processes and shares personal data with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 — before a gap becomes a penalty.
The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 is India's primary data privacy law. It governs how organisations ("Data Fiduciaries") collect, process and store the personal digital data of individuals ("Data Principals"), and gives citizens enforceable rights over their own data — including the right to access, correct, and erase it.
The Act applies to:
Non-compliance under the DPDP Act carries financial penalties of up to ₹250 crore per instance, depending on the nature and severity of the breach. Beyond the legal exposure, non-compliance damages customer trust and can disrupt vendor and partner relationships that now require DPDP compliance certificates as a condition of doing business.
DPDP compliance spans seven interconnected obligations:
Valid, specific, informed and unambiguous consent with a clear withdrawal mechanism.
Identifying what personal data you hold, where it resides, and how it flows.
Rewriting privacy policies and consent notices in clear, accessible language.
A process to handle access, correction, erasure and grievance requests within timelines.
Mandatory for Significant Data Fiduciaries before large-scale data processing.
Protocol to detect, assess and report breaches to the Board and affected individuals.
Updating data-processing agreements with vendors, cloud providers and partners.
We audit your current data practices against DPDP requirements and identify compliance gaps.
We map every personal-data touchpoint across your systems, vendors and departments.
We draft or revise your privacy policy, consent forms, and internal data-handling SOPs.
We help set up consent management tools, grievance mechanisms, and staff training.
We provide periodic DPDP audit services to keep you compliant as your practices evolve.
AAPT & Associates is a Noida-based Chartered Accountancy and business advisory firm with a multidisciplinary team spanning compliance, legal, and financial advisory. Our DPDP engagements are led by professionals who combine regulatory depth with practical, business-first implementation — so compliance strengthens your operations rather than slowing them down.
The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 is India's law governing the collection, processing and protection of digital personal data, giving individuals rights over their own data and imposing compliance obligations on businesses.
Any business that processes the digital personal data of individuals in India — regardless of whether the business itself is based in India — must comply with the DPDP Act.
Penalties can go up to ₹250 crore per instance of non-compliance, depending on the nature of the violation, such as failure to implement reasonable security safeguards or delayed breach notification.
For most small and mid-sized businesses, a full DPDP compliance program — from gap assessment to implementation — takes 4 to 8 weeks, depending on the complexity of data flows.
Yes, if offline personal data is digitised at any point (for example, uploaded to a CRM or database), it falls under the DPDP Act.
A Significant Data Fiduciary is a business notified by the government based on factors like data volume, sensitivity, and risk to individuals — such businesses face additional obligations like mandatory DPIAs and Data Protection Officer appointments.
Talk to our compliance team about a gap assessment tailored to your business — no obligation, no jargon.
