DPDP Act 2023 Compliance Advisory

What the DPDP Act means for your business

The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act) is India’s first comprehensive data-protection law. It governs how organisations collect, store, use and share the personal data of individuals (called Data Principals). Almost every MSME handles personal data — customer names, phone numbers, emails, employee records, payment details — which means almost every business has obligations under the Act. The DPDP Rules operationalising the Act bring concrete compliance duties and significant penalties for breaches.

DPDP advisory helps you understand exactly what data you hold, build the consent, notice and security practices the law requires, and put a defensible compliance framework in place — before a complaint or a regulator forces the issue.

Core obligations under the Act

• Collect personal data only with clear, informed consent for a specified purpose.
• Provide a privacy notice in plain language explaining what you collect and why.
• Honour Data Principal rights — access, correction, erasure and grievance redress.
• Implement reasonable security safeguards and report data breaches.
• Take verifiable parental consent before processing children’s data.
• Appoint a Data Protection Officer / grievance contact where required (and for Significant Data Fiduciaries).

Who needs DPDP advisory

• Any business with a website, app or CRM that collects customer data.
• D2C and e-commerce brands handling large volumes of personal and payment data.
• SaaS and tech companies processing user data (often as Data Processors).
• Employers holding employee and applicant records.
• Businesses with EU/global customers needing alignment with GDPR-style norms.

Penalties for non-compliance

The DPDP Act introduces some of the steepest penalties in Indian regulatory law — financial penalties that can run up to ₹250 crore for failure to take reasonable security safeguards leading to a breach, with substantial penalties for other defaults too, imposed by the Data Protection Board. For an MSME, even a fraction of that is existential. Building compliance now is dramatically cheaper than facing an enquiry later, and it is increasingly a prerequisite for enterprise and overseas contracts.

How we help you comply

• Data-mapping audit — what personal data you collect, where it sits, who can access it.
• Drafting a compliant privacy notice, consent flows and a data-retention policy.
• Setting up Data Principal rights and grievance-redress mechanisms.
• A breach-response plan and reasonable-security checklist.
• Ongoing advisory as the DPDP Rules and enforcement evolve.

Why TCC for DPDP advisory

We translate a complex new law into a practical, prioritised action plan sized for an MSME — not a 100-page report you will never use. You get the policies, consent flows and processes that make you defensible, plus advisory as the rules mature. Fixed fee, WhatsApp-first.