SCENARIO F01 · NOTICE, PURPOSE & CONSENT
A checkout bundles delivery details with a pre-ticked WhatsApp marketing permission. What is the best next step?
IN PLAIN ENGLISH
Why you are seeing this step
This field note uses one realistic decision to separate the official source, an editorial interpretation, a practical option, evidence to keep, and any uncertainty that still depends on your facts.
Educational only, not legal advice. Source status is dated 13 May 2027; inspect the official links below before relying on it.
BEST NEXT STEP
Separate the delivery purpose from an optional, affirmative marketing choice.
The useful design move is to identify the service purpose, make additional marketing genuinely optional, and preserve which notice and choice the person saw.
WHY THE OTHER INSTINCTS MISS
Separate the delivery purpose from an optional, affirmative marketing choice.
Correct. Consent must be specific and limited to data necessary for the stated purpose; service fulfilment should not smuggle in an unrelated promotional choice.
Keep the box pre-ticked because the customer can untick it.
A default tick is not the clear affirmative action described in Act section 6(1).
Treat checkout acceptance as permission for every customer channel.
One service interaction does not create blanket permission for unrelated purposes or channels.
BUILD THIS EVIDENCE
Purpose map, versioned notice and consent event showing the unticked default.
This artefact supports review. It does not certify compliance or replace advice on your facts.
- Guidance type
- legal requirement
- Pinpoint
- Act ss. 5 and 6(1); G.S.R. 843(E)
- Reviewed
- 2026-08-30
- Change note
- Status and pinpoint reviewed against the official Act, final Rules, commencement notification and corrigendum for this educational website.
OFFICIAL SOURCE TRAIL
Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (Act No. 22 of 2023) ↗
Definitions and specified machinery provisions are operative; most substantive duties and rights are notified for later commencement. Check each scenario's status record.
Act s. 1(2); provision-specific section pinpointsDPDP Act commencement notification G.S.R. 843(E) ↗
Appoints immediate, one-year and eighteen-month commencement cohorts for the Act.
G.S.R. 843(E), clauses (a)–(c)