Privacy Compliance

Privacy violations carry direct financial penalties — GDPR fines have exceeded EUR 4 billion cumulatively, DPDPA penalties can reach INR 250 crore, and CCPA enforcement actions are accelerating. But the commercial impact often exceeds the regulatory risk. Enterprise clients increasingly require privacy compliance as a vendor onboarding condition. Consumer trust erodes rapidly after data breaches or privacy incidents. And privacy-related litigation — both individual and class action — is growing in every major jurisdiction.

Organisations that treat privacy as a checkbox exercise inevitably discover that their documentation does not reflect their actual data practices, their consent mechanisms do not meet regulatory standards, and their incident response processes are untested. We build privacy programmes that actually work.

Data mapping and inventory: Understanding what personal data you collect, where it is stored, how it flows through your systems, who has access, and what retention periods apply. This is the foundation of every privacy regulation, and it is where most organisations have the largest gap between documentation and reality.

Lawful basis analysis: Each regulation defines the legal grounds on which you can process personal data. GDPR provides six lawful bases; DPDPA centres on consent and certain deemed consent grounds; CCPA focuses on disclosure and opt-out rights. A unified programme maps each processing activity to the appropriate lawful basis under each applicable regulation.

Privacy impact assessments: DPIAs under GDPR, data protection impact assessments under DPDPA, and equivalent assessments under other laws are not identical, but the core methodology is shared. We implement a single assessment framework that satisfies all applicable requirements.

Data subject rights: Every major privacy law grants individuals rights over their personal data — access, correction, deletion, portability, objection, and restriction. The specifics vary by jurisdiction, but the operational infrastructure to receive, verify, process, and respond to requests can be unified. We design workflows that handle rights requests efficiently across all applicable laws.

Cross-border data transfers: International data transfers are among the most operationally complex areas of privacy law. GDPR requires specific transfer mechanisms (SCCs, adequacy decisions, or BCRs). DPDPA empowers the Indian government to restrict transfers to certain jurisdictions. Other laws have their own requirements. We map your data flows and implement appropriate transfer mechanisms.

Consent management: For processing activities that rely on consent, the consent must meet the specific requirements of each applicable law — freely given, specific, informed, unambiguous under GDPR; clear and informed under DPDPA. We implement consent frameworks that satisfy the strictest applicable standard.

Vendor and processor management: Privacy laws impose obligations on how you share data with vendors, processors, and sub-processors. We review your vendor agreements, implement appropriate contractual protections, and establish ongoing monitoring processes.

We start with a comprehensive gap assessment against all regulations applicable to your business. This produces a prioritised remediation roadmap that addresses the highest-risk gaps first. Implementation is practical — we build processes and documentation that your team can actually maintain, not a library of policies that no one reads. We integrate privacy controls with your existing security and compliance infrastructure where possible, and we provide ongoing advisory support as regulations evolve.