Exercising the rights of Data Principals
How to make access, correction, erasure and grievance requestsFiduciaries and Consent Managers must publish how people can exercise their rights (access, correction, erasure, nomination, grievance).
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Fiduciaries and Consent Managers must publish how people can exercise their rights (access, correction, erasure, nomination, grievance). Requests go to the Fiduciary that holds the consent. Grievance systems must respond within 90 days, with technical measures to meet that deadline.
Key points
- Publish means to exercise rights on website or app
- Grievance redressal within 90 days
- Data Principals may nominate someone to exercise rights on their behalf
This rule gives effect to Sections 11-14 of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.
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Reproduced from the Gazette notification (G.S.R. 846(E), 13 November 2025).
14. Rights of Data Principals. - (1) For enabling Data Principals to exercise their rights under the Act, the Data Fiduciary and, where applicable, the Consent Manager, shall prominently publish on its website or app, or both, as the case may be, - 30 (a) the details of the means using which a Data Principal may make a request for the exercise of such rights; and (b) the particulars, if any, such as the username or other identifier of such a Data Principal, which may be required to identify her under its terms of service. (2) To exercise the rights of the Data Principal under the Act, she may make a request to the Data Fiduciary to whom she has previously given consent for processing of her personal data, using the means and furnishing the particulars required by such Data Fiduciary for the exercise of such rights. (3) Every Data Fiduciary and Consent Manager shall prominently publish on its website or app, or both, as the case may be, within a reasonable period not exceeding ninety days under its grievance redressal system for responding to the grievances of Data Principals and shall, for ensuring the effectiveness of the system in responding within such period, implement appropriate technical and organisational measures. (4) To exercise the rights of the Data Principal under the Act, she may, in accordance with the terms of service of the Data Fiduciary and such law as may be applicable, nominate one or more individuals, using the means and furnishing the particulars required by such Data Fiduciary for the exercise of such right. (5) In this rule, the expression “identifier” shall mean any sequence of characters issued by the Data Fiduciary to identify the Data Principal and includes a customer identification file number, customer acquisition form number, application reference number, enrolment ID, email address, mobile number or licence number that enables such identification.