King Stubb & Kasiva advises Pune businesses on the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and the DPDP Rules, 2025 from our office in Koregaon Park.
Pune combines IT and software services with automotive, engineering and manufacturing, and one of India’s largest education sectors. Employers here manage data on large workforces, and colleges, schools and edtech businesses process students’ data.
Students under 18 are children under the DPDP Act, so processing their data needs verifiable parental consent, and tracking, behavioural monitoring and targeted advertising directed at them are barred. We help Pune institutions and employers design consent, notices and retention around these rules.
For the full picture of the law, read our one-page guide to the DPDP Act in India.
Advice on the DPDP Act and Rules from readiness through to breaches and proceedings before the Data Protection Board.
Gap assessments, data mapping, privacy notices, consent design and a compliance roadmap to 13 May 2027.
Learn moreSetting up and supporting the DPO function, including for Significant Data Fiduciaries that must appoint one.
Learn moreAnnual DPIAs, independent audits and governance for entities notified as Significant Data Fiduciaries.
Learn moreBreach intimation to the Data Protection Board and affected individuals, CERT-In reporting and regulator engagement.
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The practice is led from New Delhi and Bengaluru and works with our Pune office on matters for clients here.
The DPDP Rules, 2025 bring the Act into force in three stages.
Yes. The DPDP Act applies across India to digital personal data, whether collected online or collected offline and later digitised. It also applies to businesses outside India that offer goods or services to people in India.
The DPDP Rules, 2025 were notified on 13 November 2025. The Consent Manager provisions apply from 13 November 2026, and the core obligations on notice, consent, security safeguards, breach intimation, data principal rights and retention apply from 13 May 2027.
For students under 18, yes. Processing a child’s personal data needs the verifiable consent of a parent or lawful guardian, and tracking, behavioural monitoring and targeted advertising directed at children are not allowed. The Fourth Schedule to the DPDP Rules exempts educational institutions for specified purposes.
Complaints under the DPDP Act go to the Data Protection Board of India, and appeals from the Board go to TDSAT within 60 days. Civil courts cannot hear matters the Board can decide, but writ petitions and constitutional challenges can be brought before the Bombay High Court.
Call the Pune office on +91-22-62372076, visit us at Koregaon Park, or send an enquiry through our contact form. A member of the data privacy team will respond.
The same data privacy team advises from each King Stubb & Kasiva office.
Tell us what your organisation does with personal data and what you need. A member of the data privacy team will respond.
Last reviewed 29 September 2026. General information, not legal advice.
