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Act · applicability
Scope
India-facing processing can matter
The DPDPA can be relevant to processing outside India when a business offers goods or services to Data Principals in India.
India Data Privacy Counsel for Domestic & International Businesses
Data Privacy & Protection
Turn India’s data-protection obligations into decisions your product, legal, security, HR, procurement, and leadership teams can actually operate.
DPDPA 2023
India’s digital personal data framework
India + cross-border
Local operations and global data flows
Action over abstraction
Maps, clauses, owners, and playbooks
Data is now part of every business decision. RevLaw's dedicated Data Privacy & Protection practice helps Indian enterprises, startups, processors, and multinational businesses turn India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA) and relevant global privacy obligations into clear, workable systems—from the first customer journey and vendor contract to a high-pressure data incident.
The privacy reality check
Four facts that should change the first conversation.
Act · role mapping
Roles
Purpose and control shape responsibility
A Data Fiduciary decides why and how personal data is processed. A Data Processor acts on behalf of another organisation.
Operations · ownership
Rights
A notice is not a workflow
Access, correction, erasure, grievance, and nomination rights need intake, verification, owners, timelines, and evidence.
Readiness · response
Incidents
Response is a business process
A breach plan connects containment and evidence with contracts, customer communication, regulator engagement, and remediation.
Knowledge note: the Act is only one layer. Rules, sector directions, contracts, security practice, and the facts of the processing determine the operational answer.
The action map
Move from “Are we covered?” to “Who does what next?”
A useful privacy programme is a sequence of decisions, not a document sitting in a shared drive.
01
Map
See the data journey
List collection points, systems, people, vendors, purposes, retention, and transfers before choosing a policy fix.
02
Classify
Decide what applies
Separate fiduciary and processor roles, identify higher-risk uses, and flag children’s data, AI, marketing, HR, or sensitive flows.
03
Contract
Put duties in writing
Align customer, vendor, employment, intra-group, and subprocessor terms with security, assistance, deletion, and incident obligations.
04
Operate
Give teams a repeatable rhythm
Assign owners for notices, rights, incidents, retention, training, product reviews, and escalation before the first request arrives.
3-minute readiness check
How ready is your business for privacy work that has to operate?
Answer seven practical questions about data visibility, accountability, rights, vendors, security, and higher-risk uses. You will get a starting priority and the first actions to discuss with your team or counsel.
Planning aid, not a legal opinion
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01 · Visibility
Can your team show where personal data enters, moves, and leaves the business?
Think about websites, apps, CRM tools, HR systems, support desks, analytics, cloud services, and vendors.
A simpler privacy starting point
What does your business need next?
Choose the pressure point. We will help connect the legal requirement to a practical business action.
Turn DPDPA into a clear business plan
Know what applies to your business, who owns each action, and what needs to change first.
Data and processing-flow review
Notice, consent, and contract priorities
Practical ownership and review rhythm
Built for the way data moves
Privacy counsel for India-based and international businesses
The right privacy programme depends on where your business is based, who it serves, what data it uses, and how that data moves across teams, vendors, and borders.
India-based businesses
Build a privacy programme that fits how you operate
For Indian companies, group entities, startups, and enterprises collecting or using personal data through products, employees, customers, suppliers, or partners.
- Map data flows, systems, teams, vendors, and business purposes
- Translate DPDPA duties into owned actions and review cycles
- Prepare notices, consent journeys, contracts, rights handling, and incident playbooks
International businesses
Enter or serve India with clearer privacy boundaries
For multinational and foreign companies offering goods or services to Data Principals in India, operating an India team, or using Indian vendors and group companies.
- Assess when India-facing processing may bring Indian requirements into scope
- Align India operations with group privacy, security, and vendor standards
- Coordinate India advice with GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, or other applicable regimes
Processors & technology partners
Make data-processing responsibilities contract-ready
For SaaS providers, cloud and technology vendors, agencies, BPOs, processors, and subprocessors handling data for another business.
- Clarify fiduciary, processor, and subprocessor responsibilities
- Review security, audit, assistance, deletion, and incident obligations
- Support customer diligence and repeatable contracting at scale
Data-led teams
Keep products, marketing, HR, and AI moving
For teams using analytics, advertising, personalization, employee data, health information, children’s data, or AI-enabled products.
- Review new uses of personal data before launch or expansion
- Build privacy into product, procurement, marketing, and people decisions
- Identify higher-risk processing that needs deeper assessment and controls
What the work covers
From India applicability to day-to-day controls
Expand the area closest to your question. We can support a focused issue or connect the work into a complete privacy operating programme.
01Applicability, roles & governance+
Start with the business model and the data journey, then identify which obligations, people, systems, and third parties matter.
- India-facing applicability and processing-scope assessment
- Data Fiduciary, Data Processor, Consent Manager, and group-role mapping
- Governance policies, accountability, training, and escalation routes
- Readiness planning for Significant Data Fiduciary obligations where relevant
02Notice, consent & Data Principal rights+
Make privacy information understandable and give teams a repeatable way to handle requests and complaints.
- Privacy notices, consent language, withdrawal, and preference journeys
- Access, correction, updating, erasure, nomination, and grievance workflows
- Children’s data safeguards, age-related controls, and parental-consent processes
- Marketing, analytics, cookies, personalization, and product communications
03Contracts, vendors & cross-border data+
Put the right allocation of responsibility into the agreements that move data through the business.
- Data-processing agreements, customer terms, vendor terms, and subprocessors
- Security, audit, assistance, deletion, retention, indemnity, and incident clauses
- India-to-group and India-to-vendor data-flow reviews
- Cross-border transfer and localisation analysis under the applicable Indian and foreign regimes
04Security, incidents & resilience+
Prepare for a data incident before urgency turns into confusion, delay, or inconsistent communications.
- Incident triage, legal privilege, evidence preservation, and response roles
- Assessment of notification, contractual, regulatory, and stakeholder obligations
- Data Principal, customer, vendor, insurer, and regulator communications support
- Post-incident remediation, control improvements, and lessons learned
05International privacy alignment+
Connect India advice with the privacy framework a multinational already uses without assuming one regime solves every local question.
- India alignment with GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and other group requirements
- Controller/processor and fiduciary/processor role comparisons
- Global policy localisation, intra-group arrangements, and India addenda
- Coordinated support for India counsel, global privacy teams, and local vendors
06Sector and product risk+
Privacy risk changes with the product, the people involved, and the sensitivity of the data.
- SaaS, cloud, e-commerce, fintech, healthtech, edtech, and media platforms
- HR, recruitment, employee monitoring, and workplace data
- AI training, evaluation, deployment, and data-use questions
- Sensitive data, children’s data, large-scale analytics, and targeted advertising
What you can take forward
Clear work products, not generic policy language
Depending on the scope, we help your legal, product, security, HR, procurement, and leadership teams leave with practical documents and decisions they can use.
Applicability and privacy-gap assessmentData inventory, processing map, and responsibility matrixDPDPA-ready privacy notices, consent language, and rights proceduresVendor, customer, employment, and intra-group data termsCross-border data and international privacy alignment memoPrivacy-by-design and high-risk processing assessmentIncident-response playbook and notification decision treeBoard, leadership, and team privacy training materials
Data Privacy & Protection services
DPDPA Compliance and Implementation
Privacy Policy Drafting and Review
Data Processing Agreements
Data Mapping and Records of Processing
Consent, Notice and Cookie Governance
Cross-Border Data Transfer Frameworks
Data Protection Impact Assessments
Privacy by Design Implementation
Vendor and Customer Data-Risk Reviews
Data Breach Response and Notification
Privacy Training and Operating Playbooks
Industry Expertise
Growing companies and enterprise legal teamsTechnology and SaaS platformsE-commerce and fintechHealthcare data privacyHR and employee dataMarketing and customer dataInternational data transfersAI products and data-led businesses
Why Choose RevLaw?
Privacy advice should help the business move, not create another binder of policies. We connect legal requirements to owners, workflows, contracts, product decisions, and incident response so privacy becomes a practical operating advantage.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about Data Privacy & Protection
Practical answers to common questions about data privacy & protection matters and working with RevLaw.
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