HR, Staffing & Recruitment

DPDP Compliance for HR, Staffing & Recruitment

HR teams and staffing firms hold some of the most detailed personal data an organisation collects — candidates, employees, backgrounds and references.

No credit card. No sales call. Your branded candidate portal goes live the same day.

Up and running in under an hour

Three steps from signup to a fully configured, DPDP-ready HR, Staffing & Recruitment setup.

Step 1

Sign up

Create your free account. No credit card, no sales call — just your organisation name and email.

Step 2

Answer a short questionnaire

Tell us how your organisation handles personal data. Takes about 10 minutes.

Step 3

Your portal goes live

Your consent portal, DPDP notices, retention policies and DSR workflow — configured for your sector and ready to use.

The personal data you handle

A quick reality check. If any of this looks familiar, the DPDP Act applies to you.

Candidate & applicant data
Employee & payroll records
Background-check & reference data
ID, bank & KYC documents
Performance & health/leave data
Client-shared placement data

Why DPDP applies to HR, Staffing & Recruitment

Employees and candidates are data principals with full rights. The DPDP Act requires notice at the point of collection, minimisation, secure handling and retention limits — including for the large volume of rejected-candidate data that HR tends to keep forever.

Sector note: Beyond DPDP: sensitivity of background-check and health data, and DPAs where staffing firms share candidate data with clients.

What to keep in mind

The points that cause most of the DPDP exposure in HR, Staffing & Recruitment.

Notice at collection

Tell candidates and employees what you collect and why, at the point you collect it — not buried in an offer letter.

Background checks are sensitive

Verification and health/leave data need consent, strong safeguards and tight access.

Delete rejected candidates

Holding unsuccessful applicants indefinitely is over-retention. Set a defined period and purge.

Staffing = sharing

Placing candidates with clients means sharing their data — get consent and sign DPAs with each client.

How dpflo helps HR, Staffing & Recruitment

An India-resident DPDP platform that turns these obligations into a small set of guided workflows.

  • Discovery across HRMS/ATS and shared drives, with retention for candidate data.
  • Consent + DPAs for staffing firms sharing candidates with clients.
  • Automated discovery & classification of personal data across your databases, cloud storage and SaaS apps.
  • Consent capture, consent receipts and easy withdrawal — web, app, QR and a hosted preference centre.
  • A resident/customer request (DSR) & grievance portal with SLA tracking and audit-ready evidence.
  • Retention schedules, data-minimisation flags and a breach register with CERT-In 6-hour incident-reporting workflow.
  • A vendor/processor register with data-processing-agreement (DPA) tracking.

Get HR, Staffing & Recruitment DPDP-ready

Sign up free and your consent portal, notices and DSR workflow go live in under an hour — no calls, no waiting.

No credit card. No sales call. Your branded candidate portal goes live the same day.