Written by: Prakhar Rai, Advocate | Founder, My Legal Pal | Enrolled with the Bar Council of India | Contracts and data protection lawyer in India Last reviewed: 6 October 2026, against the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and the DPDP Rules, 2025 Quick answer If your business handles personal data in India, a […]
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Written by: Prakhar Rai, Advocate | Founder, My Legal Pal | Enrolled with the Bar Council of India Quick answer If you sell anything online to Indian consumers, the Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules, 2020 apply to you, whether you run a marketplace, sell your own inventory directly, or sell through someone else’s platform. The rules […]
Written by: María Laura Cristín, Argentine Attorney | Admitted, Santa Fe Bar Association, since 2015 | Advises on trademark registration, intellectual property, and commercial disputes in Argentina Quick answer Registering your trademark with INPI gives you the right to stop someone else from using it, but registration alone does not stop a copycat. If another […]
Written by: Prakhar Rai, Founder, My Legal Pal | Bar Council of India | LL.B, NLSIU Bangalore | Master of Business Laws | Advises on GDPR, UK GDPR, and cross-border data transfer compliance Quick answer The GDPR restricts moving personal data out of the EEA unless the destination has specific legal cover. Standard Contractual Clauses, […]
Written by: Prakhar Rai, Founder, My Legal Pal | Bar Council of India | LL.B, NLSIU Bangalore | Master of Business Laws | Advises on cross-border and EU-facing contracts Quick answer Danish consumers have a 14-day right of withdrawal, fortrydelsesret, on distance contracts (online, phone, mail order) and off-premises contracts (a sale made away from […]
Written by: Prakhar Rai, Founder, My Legal Pal | Bar Council of India | LL.B, NLSIU Bangalore | Master of Business Laws | Advises on DPDP, GDPR, and CCPA compliance for businesses operating in and outside India Quick answer Data mapping is the exercise of finding out, in specific and current terms, what personal data […]
Written by: Prakhar Rai, Founder, My Legal Pal | Bar Council of India | LL.B, NLSIU Bangalore | Master of Business Laws Reviewed by: Deepashree Agnihotri, Corporate Lawyer, My Legal Pal Quick answer There is no such thing as a single “SAFE note” under Indian company law. When a founder or investor says “let’s do […]
TL;DR: If you built your app by describing what you wanted to an AI tool and accepting most of what it generated, “vibe coding,” there’s a real chance you don’t legally own the code the way you assume you do. The Supreme Court let stand a ruling in March 2026 confirming that AI-generated output without […]
TL;DR: An Argentine startup needs a specific stack of legal documents from day one, incorporation documents matching the entity type chosen, a Founders’ Agreement, IP Assignment Agreements, compliant written employment contracts, NDAs, and, once the product is public, trademark filing documents. Each protects a different part of the business, and each needs to actually reflect […]
TL;DR: Running an e-commerce business in the US means complying with a genuinely layered set of federal and state requirements most founders underestimate until something goes wrong, FTC advertising and shipping rules, a patchwork of state sales tax nexus obligations since Wayfair, CAN-SPAM for every marketing email, ADA website accessibility, and state-specific privacy laws that […]