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Retention and erasure under Rule 8
Identify the retention triggers on file, compute the one year log floor and the forty eight hour warning deadline deterministically, and see exactly where another law takes over.
Commencement note: Rules 3, 5 to 16, 22 and 23 are not yet in force. The computed date is 13 May 2027, which is interpretation until officially confirmed. Basis of the computation: Publication date 13 November 2025 printed on Gazette issue No. 760, plus eighteen months. The corrigendum wording change does not affect this computation. Building ahead of the duty is the practical move. See Rule 8, official text.
Logs and data for the Seventh Schedule purposes must be kept at least one year from this date.
The Data Principal must be informed at least forty eight hours before the erasure period completes.
The retention duties on file
Timed erasure for Third Schedule classes
Data Fiduciaries of the classes specified in the Third Schedule must erase personal data for the specified purposes at the specified time periods, when the Data Principal neither approaches for the specified purpose nor exercises rights, unless retention is necessary to comply with law. The classes, purposes and periods live in the Third Schedule, which this site is ingesting with verification; until it is published here, read it in the official Gazette text and treat class membership as a legal question.
Forty eight hour warning before timed erasure
At least forty eight hours before the erasure period completes, the Data Principal must be informed that the data will be erased unless they log in or otherwise initiate contact or exercise rights.
One year retention of logs and data
Personal data, associated traffic data and processing logs must be retained for at least one year from the date of processing for the Seventh Schedule purposes, then erased, unless another law or a government notification requires longer retention.
Where another law controls: Where retention is necessary for compliance with any other law, that law controls and can require keeping data longer. This tool does not guess what other laws require of you; sectoral retention questions belong with your counsel.
Dates entered here stay on this page. Calculations are deterministic and shown with their assumptions.