Delete on schedule — and prove it.

Data kept past its purpose is a liability, not an asset.

Every extra day of retention is a longer blast radius on a breach, a larger DSR to fulfil and a harder question to answer.

DPDP §8(7) requires deletion when the purpose is no longer being served and retention is no longer necessary for a legal purpose.

Retention lives in commented-out cron jobs.

No one owns the schedule. No one runs the disposition. No one has evidence of what was deleted, when or by whom.

• Schedule per data category with lawful basis anchor.
• Named holds with justification and review date.
• Runs on cadence with a dry-run preview.
• Disposition evidence per run — count, category, system.
• Reconciliation against RoPA retention field.

Schedule, hold, run, evidence.

Retention becomes a governed workflow with owners and evidence.

1. 01
   Define

   Schedule per data category with lawful basis and retention period.
2. 02
   Hold

   Named holds — litigation, tax, contract — with justification and review date.
3. 03
   Preview

   Dry-run per schedule shows candidate records per system.
4. 04
   Execute

   Disposition run with named executor and evidence.
5. 05
   Evidence

   Per-run report with counts, categories and systems.
6. 06
   Reconcile

   Retention field on RoPA reconciled against actual disposition.

Disposition you can point to on request.

Every run leaves an evidence file with counts and categories per system.

Data kept only as long as purpose demands.

You can answer, per category and per system, when and how records were disposed.

Grounded in

DPDP §8(7)

Cadence

Configurable per schedule

Evidence

Per run