In simple words
This rule defines a few words used in the Rules, such as user account and verifiable consent. Other words have the meaning given in the Act.
- What this means for you
- Your user account includes your profiles, handles, email address and mobile number used with a service.
- What this means for businesses
- Use the Act's definitions together with these.
- Everyday example
- Your login on a food delivery app is a user account under the Rules.
Who it applies to
All readers of the Rules.
Related sections and Schedules
Official textas notified
Source: MeitY copy of the Gazette, page 24. Printed dashes are shown as colons; the wording is unchanged.
(1) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,
(a) “Act” means the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (22 of 2023);
(b) “techno-legal measures” means as referred to under rules 20 and 22;
(c) “user account” means the online account registered by the Data Principal with the Data Fiduciary, and includes any profiles, pages, handles, email address, mobile number and other similar presences by means of which such Data Principal is able to access the services of such Data Fiduciary; and
(d) “verifiable consent” means a consent as specified in rule 10 or 11.
(2) The words and expressions used in these rules and not defined, but defined in the Act, shall have the same meanings respectively assigned to them in the Act.