Data Privacy
The Digital Personal Data Protection Act is India’s data protection law designed to regulate how personal data is collected, stored, processed, and shared. It gives individuals rights over their data and imposes responsibilities on organizations (data fiduciaries and processors) to handle data lawfully and transparently.
Data privacy refers to the rights and controls individuals have over how their personal information is collected, used, stored, shared, and deleted by businesses and organizations.
“Data Privacy focuses on who can access personal data and how it is used.
Data Protection refers to the technical and organizational methods used to secure data against unauthorized access, breaches, or loss.
Together, they ensure personal data is used responsibly and securely.”
Data discovery is the process of identifying where personal and sensitive data resides across an organization’s digital environment – including structured and unstructured repositories — so it can be managed and protected appropriately.
Data discovery gives visibility into where personal and sensitive data exists. Without it, organizations cannot accurately assess compliance risk, protect data effectively, or respond to privacy requests.
Data classification is the activity of labeling data based on its sensitivity, compliance requirements, and business value so organizations can enforce the correct privacy and security policies.
Classified data helps prioritize protection: sensitive, regulated, or high-risk data gets stronger controls than less critical information, aligning privacy and security efforts to business risk.
Visual markers automatically label and watermark sensitive documents (headers/footers) to indicate sensitivity levels, helping ensure correct handling and access control.
Seqrite Data Privacy offers connectors for 500+ data sources including databases, SaaS applications, cloud storage, file servers, and collaboration platforms. Custom connectors can also be developed if needed
Consent management is the practice of obtaining, recording, and managing user permissions (consent) before collecting or processing their personal data. It ensures compliance with privacy laws and gives users control over their personal information.
A Consent Manager is typically a role (or tool/system) responsible for handling the lifecycle of user consent — from capture to tracking, audit, modification, and revocation — in accordance with India’s DPDP Act and other privacy laws.
Under India’s DPDP Act, a Consent Manager is a registered entity responsible for enabling Data Principals to give, manage, review, and withdraw their consent through an interoperable and transparent platform, as prescribed by the Act and its rules.
A Consent Management Solution, in contrast, is a technology platform used by organizations (Data Fiduciaries) to operationalize consent internally – by capturing consent, mapping it to purposes, enforcing consent choices, maintaining audit trails, and ensuring compliance with DPDP requirements.
In essence, a Consent Manager acts as a trusted, user-facing intermediary defined by the DPDP framework, while a Consent Management Solution helps organizations implement and manage consent obligations within their systems.
Yes , Seqrite Data Privacy offers centralized consent and preference management so you can collect, update, track, and honor consent changes in real time with complete audit trails.
Under the DPDP Act, organizations must inform the Data Protection Board without undue delay after discovering a breach, and submit a detailed report within 72 hours, including affected data, impact, and remedial measures.
It provides breach logging with automated alerts and customizable notification templates to inform stakeholders quickly and align with regulatory requirements.
A PIA is a structured evaluation to identify data privacy risks in business processes and systems and determine how to reduce those risks.
Vendor risk management is evaluating and monitoring third-party partners for privacy and security compliance to ensure they protect personal data appropriately.
The platform includes predefined assessment templates (DPIA, RoPA, privacy gap assessments, third-party risk) and supports guidance frameworks like NIST Privacy and GDPR checklists to streamline evaluations.
Automation reduces manual workload, ensures consistent enforcement of privacy policies, generates audit trails, and helps respond rapidly to regulatory changes and user requests.
Seqrite Data Privacy helps DPOs and compliance teams by providing centralized visibility into personal data, automating data discovery and classification, managing user consent and preferences, handling rights requests, supporting privacy assessments, and enabling audit-ready reporting — all from a single platform.
Seqrite Data Privacy automates rights requests using case workflows that let you search, locate, act upon, and track requests such as access, rectification, or deletion — all with audit logs for compliance enforcement.
Yes. Seqrite Data Privacy offers modular licensing, enabling organizations to begin with essential modules (e.g., Data Discovery & Classification) and scale up as their privacy program needs evolve.
Seqrite Data Privacy supports both cloud & on-premise hybrid deployments, allowing you to choose the model that fits your data governance and compliance requirements.
Yes – it can share discovery and classification outputs with DLP systems and expose insights to strengthen data protection workflows while maintaining existing investments.
While designed with the DPDP Act in mind, the platform is configurable for global requirements like GDPR, CCPA, PDPL, HIPAA, and others, supporting flexible policy and workflow adjustments.
By providing transparent consent management, clear data handling practices, and adherence to privacy laws, it strengthens customer trust and drives transparency.