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What is my DPDP role?
Answer four operational questions and get a caveated indication of your organisation's likely role for a processing activity, with the official definitions it rests on and the full decision trace. Your answers stay in your browser.
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Results are decided by the Role and Actor Checker rules pack, version 1. Identical answers always produce identical results.
What this tool asks
- Does your organisation handle information about identifiable people?For example names, phone numbers, email addresses, delivery addresses, account details, photos or employee records. Customers, users, employees and vendors all count.
- Is any of that information handled on computers or phones?Includes information collected on paper and typed into a computer later. Spreadsheets, apps, email and cloud services all count.
- Is this information handled only by one individual for personal or family matters?For example a personal contact list or family photo collection. Answer no if any of it is for business, work or an organisation.
- For the information you handle, who decides why and how it is used?If you collect user or customer information for your own product or service, you decide. If you only handle information for client organisations under their instructions, they decide.
The official provisions this tool rests on
- ROLE-01 · Information about identifiable people is handled
- ROLE-02 · The information is in digital form
- ROLE-03 · Personal or domestic use by an individual
- ROLE-04 · The organisation decides the purposes and means
- ROLE-05 · Processing happens on behalf of another organisation