Get your preschool DPDP-ready before November 2026
India's Digital Personal Data Protection Rules take full effect in November 2026 — and children's data gets the strictest treatment. Starkid gives your preschool consent-first parent communication and records you can actually show.
November 2026 is closer than one admissions season
The DPDP Act is law today; the Rules give schools a runway that ends in November 2026. After that, the Data Protection Board can ask any school to show how it handles children's data.
₹200 Cr
maximum penalty under the DPDP Act for failing obligations around children's personal data
Verifiable
the standard for parental consent — it must be recorded and provable, not assumed
Nov 2026
when the DPDP Rules' compliance runway ends for schools
Most preschools run admissions forms, photos, and parent chats through WhatsApp and paper registers. None of that produces the records the law expects you to be able to show.
A WhatsApp group can't evidence consent
Children's photos sit in group chats next to strangers' phone numbers. Consent was a nod at admission time, recorded nowhere. Who saw what, and when, is anyone's guess. An exemption you can't evidence is one you don't have.
The fix isn't more paperwork — it's running parent communication through a system that produces consent records, access control, and deletion trails as a side effect of normal use.
Consent-first by design — evidence you can show
Starkid replaces the WhatsApp group with structured, purpose-limited communication between your school and each family.
Consent on record, per parent
Every parent joins through their own verified account and invite — a record of who agreed to receive their child's updates, not a group add.
Purpose-limited, role-based access
Parents see only their own child's photos and updates. Teachers see their classes. Nothing spills into a public group.
Deletion you can act on
When a family leaves or asks, their data can be deleted — a request you can honour and show, instead of chat history you can't unsend.
Talk to us before the deadline does
Leave your details and we'll walk you through how Starkid handles children's data — and what your school would need to change.
Starkid is a tool that helps your school demonstrate good data practices — it is not a compliance certification, and readiness depends on how your school operates.
Be the preschool that can show its records
The app is free for schools — set up before the November 2026 deadline becomes an admissions-season scramble.
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