==================================================================== STARTING TEMPLATE from dpdprules.org Consent request wording Practical recommendation, not legal advice. Have your legal counsel review and adapt this before use. Bracketed text marks what you must fill in or decide. Provisions tracked: section 6(1) and 6(3) of the DPDP Act 2023 (consent and the consent request), section 5 (notice). These sit in the commencement group due eighteen months from the notification gazette; the computed date 13 May 2027 is interpretation until officially confirmed. Verified source references: https://dpdprules.org/act/6 and https://dpdprules.org/act/5 ==================================================================== Use this wording at the point where you ask for consent. The request must be accompanied or preceded by your privacy notice. -------------------------------------------------------------------- [Organisation name] asks for your consent to process the following personal data: [itemised list, matching section 2 of your privacy notice] for the following specified purposes only: [list each purpose, matching section 3 of your privacy notice] Only the personal data necessary for these purposes will be processed. Your consent is your free choice. Saying no will not affect [the service or benefit that does not depend on this data]. You can withdraw your consent at any time, as easily as you give it, at [link]. Withdrawal will not affect processing already carried out on your consent. Read the full privacy notice: [link to notice] Questions about this request or your personal data: [contact details of your Data Protection Officer, or of the person authorised to respond to communications from Data Principals about exercising their rights] [ ] I agree to the processing described above. [Use an unticked box, button press or equivalent clear affirmative action. Silence, inactivity or a prefilled box is unlikely to qualify as a clear affirmative action.] -------------------------------------------------------------------- Checklist before you ship this request -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Free: no bundling of consent with unrelated terms and no detriment for refusing data that the purpose does not need. 2. Specific: each purpose is named; no "and other business purposes". 3. Informed: the notice reaches the person with or before this request and itemises the data and purposes. 4. Unconditional: access to goods or services is not conditioned on consent to processing that they do not need. 5. Unambiguous, with a clear affirmative action: the person must do something active to agree. 6. Limited: the request covers only the personal data necessary for the specified purposes. 7. The contact details of your Data Protection Officer, or of the person authorised to respond to communications from Data Principals about exercising their rights, are shown.