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Free compliance check

Is your database actually legal?

India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act is in force, and it applies to your side project too. If you collect a name, email or phone number, you have obligations — and most AI-generated backends meet none of them. We'll show you exactly where you stand.

₹250 cr
Maximum DPDP penalty

AI built your backend. It didn't read the law.

The DPDP Act, 2023 treats you as a 'Data Fiduciary' the moment you store someone's personal data. It demands consent, security, and a way for users to be forgotten. Vibe-coded apps almost always skip all three.

  • Personal data collected with no record of consent
  • No way for a user to request deletion of their data ('right to erasure')
  • Weak or missing row-level security — any logged-in user can read everyone's data
  • PII sitting in plaintext logs, analytics and third-party tools
  • No data-retention policy and no breach-notification plan

What our compliance check covers.

A practical, engineer-led review of how your app actually handles personal data — not a generic legal PDF.

PII inventory

Map exactly what personal data you collect, where it's stored, and who can access it.

Consent flow

Check whether consent is captured, specific, and recorded — as the Act requires.

Right to erasure

Verify a real, working path for users to request and receive data deletion.

Row-level security

Audit RLS and access controls so users can only ever see their own data.

Data minimisation

Flag data you collect but don't need — a core DPDP principle and a liability if breached.

Retention & breach plan

Review how long you keep data and whether you can respond to a breach in time.

Why this is worth fixing now.

Compliance isn't just about avoiding fines — though those are severe. It's increasingly a requirement to close enterprise deals, raise funding, and earn user trust.

  • Penalties up to ₹250 crore per violation under the DPDP Act
  • Enterprise customers now demand a data-protection posture before they sign
  • Investors run data diligence — gaps here can stall or kill a round
  • A single breach of unprotected PII can end a young company's reputation

How we get you compliant.

01

Audit & gap report

A prioritised, plain-English report of where you stand against each DPDP requirement.

02

Lock down access

Implement proper row-level security and access controls so data can't leak between users.

03

Build consent & deletion

Add real consent capture and a working data-deletion flow your users can actually use.

04

Policy & retention

Set up retention rules, minimise stored PII, and document a breach-response plan.

Find out if your app is a liability — free check, clear answers, fixes if you want them.