Product documentation

Documentation for evaluators, implementers, and operators.

This documentation explains how TrustOS is structured, how the main workflows connect, and which records are created during normal operation.

Use it to evaluate the platform, prepare an implementation, train authorised users, and understand the responsibilities assigned to each team.

Product and operating areas

Section 01 of 11

Personal data inventory

Purpose. Maintain a structured view of where personal data is processed and who is responsible for it.

Operator workflow

  1. Create business domains and services.
  2. Add applications, databases, files, and other data stores.
  3. Record personal data categories and processing activities.
  4. Associate processors, owners, and system contacts.
  5. Run or import discovery findings where available.
  6. Review and approve the resulting record.

Expected records

  • Data store inventory
  • Processing activity record
  • Personal data category record
  • Processor relationship
  • Ownership and review history
  • Discovery finding and resolution

Section 1. Personal data inventory

Maintain a structured view of where personal data is processed and who is responsible for it.

Operator workflow

  1. Create business domains and services.
  2. Add applications, databases, files, and other data stores.
  3. Record personal data categories and processing activities.
  4. Associate processors, owners, and system contacts.
  5. Run or import discovery findings where available.
  6. Review and approve the resulting record.

Expected records

  • Data store inventory
  • Processing activity record
  • Personal data category record
  • Processor relationship
  • Ownership and review history
  • Discovery finding and resolution
Open Personal Data Inventory

Section 2. Purposes and privacy notices

Connect each processing activity with a clear purpose, applicable ground, relevant data, retention requirement, and notice.

Operator workflow

  1. Create the processing purpose.
  2. Select the relevant personal data.
  3. Record the applicable processing ground.
  4. Add the responsible business function.
  5. Set the retention requirement.
  6. Draft and review the notice.
  7. Publish an approved version.

Expected records

  • Purpose version
  • Data category mapping
  • Processing ground record
  • Retention requirement
  • Notice version
  • Approval and publication history
Open Purposes and Notices

Section 4. Privacy Centre

Provide Data Principals with a dedicated service channel.

Available services

  • Review and manage consent preferences
  • Submit requests for access information
  • Submit correction, completion, updating, or erasure requests
  • Raise a grievance
  • Submit nomination details
  • Review request status where configured
  • Access published privacy information and contact details
View Privacy Centre

Section 5. Rights requests and grievances

Manage requests through a controlled process from intake to closure.

Operator workflow

  1. Receive the request.
  2. Verify identity and authority.
  3. Classify the request.
  4. Assign the responsible team.
  5. Gather the required information or complete the required action.
  6. Review the response.
  7. Communicate with the Data Principal.
  8. Record the outcome and closure evidence.

Expected records

  • Request record
  • Verification record
  • Assignment history
  • Communication history
  • Internal task record
  • Approval record
  • Outcome and closure evidence
Open Rights and Grievances

Section 6. Retention, erasure, and operational actions

Translate an approved retention or rights decision into controlled work across configured systems.

Operator workflow

  1. Select the relevant processing record or request.
  2. Confirm the required action.
  3. Review legal and operational exceptions.
  4. Create the action for connected systems.
  5. Monitor execution.
  6. Resolve failures or exceptions.
  7. Record completion and available verification.

Expected records

  • Action request
  • Connected system response
  • Exception record
  • Retry history
  • Completion status
  • Verification information
Open Operational Actions

Section 7. Personal data breach response

Coordinate the organisational response to a personal data breach and preserve the required information.

Operator workflow

  1. Open the incident record.
  2. Record the nature, timing, location, extent, and likely impact.
  3. Identify affected Data Principals.
  4. Record immediate containment and remediation.
  5. Prepare and record communications to affected Data Principals.
  6. Record the information provided to the Data Protection Board of India.
  7. Track additional information and detailed reporting.
  8. Record findings, corrective action, and closure review.

Expected records

  • Incident chronology
  • Affected data and system record
  • Data Principal communication record
  • Board intimation record
  • Detailed reporting information
  • Remediation action
  • Closure review and evidence
Open Personal Data Breach Operations

Section 8. Processors and governance

Maintain the records used to oversee processors and the organisation's privacy governance activity.

Available records

  • Processor details
  • Service and processing description
  • Data categories involved
  • Contractual reference
  • Security and compliance review
  • Responsible owner
  • Issue and remediation record
  • Review and renewal history
Open Processor Records

Section 9. Impact assessments and risk

Document processing that requires structured risk review and record the resulting decisions and remediation.

Operator workflow

  1. Describe the proposed or existing processing.
  2. Identify the personal data and affected Data Principals.
  3. Assess potential impact on Data Principal rights.
  4. Record existing safeguards.
  5. Assign further remediation.
  6. Review and approve the assessment.
  7. Schedule periodic review where required.
Open Impact Assessments

Section 10. Evidence and reporting

Prepare approved records for management review, legal review, audit, or regulatory response.

Available outputs

  • Processing records
  • Consent and notice history
  • Rights and grievance records
  • Retention and erasure records
  • Personal data breach records
  • Processor oversight records
  • Impact assessments
  • Remediation status
  • Approved evidence packages
Open Evidence and Reporting

Section 11. Administration and access

Control who can access the system and what each authorised user can do.

Administration areas

  • Tenant configuration
  • User accounts
  • Roles and permissions
  • Authentication settings
  • Activity records
  • Organisation details
  • Branding and language settings
  • Notification settings
  • Environment and deployment configuration
Open Administration

A practical implementation sequence

1. Confirm scope and responsibility

Identify the organisational entities, business services, systems, processors, responsible teams, and initial compliance priorities.

2. Build the personal data inventory

Record the known data environment and review discovery findings with the relevant system and business owners.

3. Configure purposes, notices, and consent

Document the processing purpose, applicable ground, data categories, retention, notice content, and consent process where required.

4. Configure Data Principal service workflows

Set up request intake, verification, assignment, communication, response work, grievance handling, and nomination.

5. Configure operational actions

Connect approved systems, map relevant data, test actions, review exceptions, and define available verification methods.

6. Prepare governance and evidence

Configure processor records, incident workflows, impact assessments, processing records, management review, and evidence packages.

Use the proposal for implementation scope and delivery responsibilities.