What makes a privacy policy score well on DPDP compliance? A privacy policy scores well on DPDP compliance when it clearly states the specific purposes of processing (not generic descriptions), provides a granular list of data categories collected, specifies retention periods for each category, lists all data principal rights with a clear mechanism to exercise them, names a Grievance Officer with direct contact details, and describes consent withdrawal in plain language. Policies should be readable at a Grade 8 level and be available in the regional languages of the users served by the organisation.
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The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and the DPDP Rules, 2025 set specific expectations for what organisations tell Data Principals. This free checker scans your policy for twelve signals, including: a reference to the DPDP Act and Rules, a named and reachable grievance officer, valid consent language (no "by using this site you consent" constructions), consent withdrawal, Data Principal rights (access, correction, erasure), retention periods, children's data handling, breach notification commitments, and cross-border transfer disclosure.
In our scans of mid-market IT, SaaS and BPO companies, the most common failures are policies written for GDPR or the IT Act 2000 with no DPDP reference at all, missing grievance officers, and assumed-consent clauses that the DPDP Act was specifically written to end. Full enforcement begins 13 May 2027 — and enterprise clients are already sending vendor questionnaires that ask about exactly these gaps.
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