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Open the rights link on your receipt, choose Withdraw this consent and confirm, and it takes effect at once.

Your receipt carries a private rights link. It is yours alone: opening it changes nothing, and nobody is notified. The firm's audit trail records the day it was opened.

  1. 1 Open the rights link. The page shows the consent you gave: who it was given to, when, and what it covers.
  2. 2 Under Your rights, choose Withdraw this consent. The text beside the button says exactly what withdrawing will do in your case.
  3. 3 Choose Yes, withdraw. The page now shows Withdrawn on with the date and time, and the firm is told the same moment.

Withdrawing needs no reason and no reply from the firm. The law says withdrawing must be as easy as consenting was (DPDP Act, section 6(4)). Our guide explains what that right means.

What happens to what you shared depends on one thing, which the page tells you before you confirm. If no law requires the firm to keep it, everything you sent is permanently deleted at that moment. If a law does require it, the firm stops using what you shared but must keep it until the law's period ends. The page names the law and shows the date under Kept by law until. On that date the documents are deleted. If the firm keeps the documents in its own records rather than with us, it is told to delete them and to confirm the deletion. Either way, one record stays: that you gave consent, and that you withdrew it. That record is the proof, for you and for the firm, of what was agreed and when it ended.

Withdrawing is not the same as asking for a copy, a correction or deletion. Those are requests the firm answers, and they sit on the same page. If you no longer have your receipt or the link, the firm can act on your record from its side.

For example

Farhan Qureshi uploads his documents on 1 July 2027 and withdraws his consent on 1 September 2027. His notice named no law, so everything he uploaded is deleted the moment he confirms. His rights link then shows Withdrawn on 1 September 2027 and the list of what was covered, and nothing else. Had his notice said that a law requires the records to be kept for 5 years after that, the page would show Kept by law until 1 September 2032 instead. The documents would then be deleted on that date.