Chapter 3 · Rights & Duties of Data Principal
Section 12 - Right to correction and erasure of personal data
Fix, update or delete your personal dataIf a Fiduciary holds wrong, incomplete or outdated data about you, this right lets you require them to correct, complete or update it.
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If a Fiduciary holds wrong, incomplete or outdated data about you, this right lets you require them to correct, complete or update it. You can also ask them to erase your personal data, and they must comply - unless keeping it is still necessary for the original purpose or is required by another law.
You can have a misspelt name fixed, or ask a service you have stopped using to delete your account data.
Key points
- Require correction, completion or updating of your personal data.
- Require erasure of your personal data on request.
- Erasure can be refused only where retention is needed for the purpose or by law.
- Applies to data processed on your consent (including certain legitimate uses).
Official section text
Section 12. Right to correction and erasure of personal data.
A Data Principal shall have the right to correction, completion, updating and erasure of her personal data for the processing of which she has previously given consent, including consent as referred to in clause (a) of section 7, in accordance with any requirement or procedure under any law for the time being in force.
A Data Fiduciary shall, upon receiving a request for correction, completion or updating from a Data Principal, -
correct the inaccurate or misleading personal data;
complete the incomplete personal data; and
update the personal data.
A Data Principal shall make a request in such manner as may be prescribed to the Data Fiduciary for erasure of her personal data, and upon receipt of such a request, the Data Fiduciary shall erase her personal data unless retention of the same is necessary for the specified purpose or for compliance with any law for the time being in force.