01 A practical DPDP guide for business teams

Turn DPDP requirements into a plan your team can own.

Work out where customer data goes, what needs to change and who will do it. Choose your business context for practical tasks, system guides and a suggested 90-day plan.

Choose your starting point Browse the 12 system guides

For product, operations, security and privacy teams.

How it works A guided workspace you use in your browser. It helps organise the work; it cannot certify compliance.

Phased legal status · checked 2026-08-30: most operational provisions mapped here are notified for 2027-05-13. “Notified” is not the same as “in force”—inspect all three cohorts.

FIELD GUIDE / WORKED EXAMPLE01 → 03

Turn the question into a taskWhere did this customer’s phone number go?An example of how to start a data review.

01 / STARTThe systemStart with the customer record
Check the CRM, billing tool and any spreadsheet copies.
02 / DECIDEThe taskDecide who will check
Ask the person who manages each tool to confirm where the number is used.
03 / RETRIEVEThe recordKeep the findings together
Record the systems checked, the owner and any copies still unaccounted for.

You do the review. The guide helps you organise it.

Review official sources

03 Choose your starting point

Which part of the business are you working on?

Choose a context to see a recommended system guide and your first task. You can change this choice at any time.

Your starting point You can change this selection

Start with Zoho CRM

See how data moves through this system. Then review Inventory and note which records your team can provide.

FIELD GUIDE / CRM + sales01 → 03

Turn the question into a taskA first route through Zoho CRMA suggested working path. Check the real configuration and assign its owner in your team.

01 / STARTThe systemZoho CRM
Collect · form · import · manual
02 / DECIDEThe taskDecide who will check
Trace one recent lead or customer journey from collection to every destination.
03 / RETRIEVEThe recordOwned register
Which edition and data centre does the organisation use?

MAP-01 · Inventory · Notified for 13 May 2027; not yet in force · Checked 27 Sept 2026

DPDP Act commencement notification · G.S.R. 843(E)

Inspect the data journey Answer the readiness item See the evidence relationship

Using another system? Salesforce · Freshworks / Freshsales · HubSpot

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02 HOW THE WORKSPACE HELPS

Give each task an owner and a record.

01
Choose a system
Start with the billing, customer or workplace tool your team already uses.
02
Assign the work
Decide what needs to change and who will take it forward.
03
Keep a record
Save what you can show, and flag the questions you still need to answer.

04 Professional depth, when you need it

Keep going without losing the evidence trail.

No single score proves compliance. The workspace helps teams see what they can retrieve, what is partial, what is unknown and what is missing.

A / Guided

Readiness assessment

Answer ten evidence questions, review a balanced result and export a portable JSON record without giving us an email address.

Open the evidence map B / Detailed

Control catalogue

Filter 32 implementation topics. Open each record to see the mapped provision, source status, artefacts, owners and a practical test.

Browse controls C / Sequenced

90-day route

Sequence inventory, decisions, workflow design, rollout and exercises into five accountable phases.

Open the route

05 Start with a system your team knows

Follow the data before answering the assessment.

Each guide separates operating questions, evidence to save and official vendor sources. Admin paths are deliberately marked for live-console verification.

Recommended first journey

Zoho CRM

Trace a lead from collection to module fields, automations, exports and eventual deletion.

Work + storage

Google Workspace

Separate authoritative records from inboxes, forms, shared drives and unmanaged copies.

Messaging

WhatsApp Business / Meta messaging

Map the entry point, phone identifier, conversation, template, webhook and CRM hand-off.

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06 Field notes + review record

Go deeper without losing the legal-status boundary.

Eight long-form notes connect official pinpoints to product, security and operating decisions. Every note shows what is operative, what is notified for later and what is only preparation.

Evidence operations · 9 min

07 Evidence beats confidence

Seven records your operating team should be able to find.

These are implementation artefacts, not a government-prescribed pack and not proof of a legal conclusion.

01Notice version
What was shown, where, when and for which purpose.
02Purpose + data map
The field, reason, destination and accountable owner.
03Choice evidence
Affirmative action and withdrawal where consent is relied on.
04Processor record
Service, role assessment, contract, access and exit path.
05Rights workflow
Intake, verification, search, action and response evidence.
06Retention logic
Start event, end event, exception and system action.
07Safeguard record
Access, protection, logs, monitoring and incident evidence.

08 Provision-aware planning

“Notified” and “in force” are not interchangeable.

The Act commencement notification and final Rules place provisions into three cohorts. Every legal-topic control in this workspace shows the mapped provision’s status separately from the implementation aid.

Inspect the status ledger

Operative2025-11-13

Rules 1, 2 and 17–21

Scheduled · 1 year2026-11-13

Rule 4

Scheduled · 18 months2027-05-13

Rules 3, 5–16, 22 and 23

Dates derived from the Gazette publication date. Recheck later notifications before relying on them.

Turn DPDP requirements into a plan your team can own.

Which part of the business are you working on?

Start with Zoho CRM

Start with Google Workspace

Start with WhatsApp Business / Meta messaging

Start with Shopify / WooCommerce

Start with Tally / spreadsheet hand-offs

Start with Amazon Web Services