The DPDP Rules, in short
The official notification G.S.R. 843(E), dated 13 November 2025, brings provisions of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act into force in stages. It specifies an initial group on publication, another after one year and another after eighteen months. Read the notification for the provisions in each group.
This is a summary, not legal advice. For what the law requires of a company, or what it gives you, read the official text or ask a lawyer.
What that means for your AI chats
The law is about how organisations handle personal data, and AI services are among them. How each AI company applies it is for that company to say, in its own terms and privacy policy.
What doesn't depend on anyone else is this: a copy you keep yourself, on your own computer, is under your control. You decide where it lives, who sees it and when you delete it. For a chat you'll need again (a study plan, a long piece of research, the steps of a project), that's worth having whatever the rules say.
A copy is yours to protect too.
A file on your computer is only as private as your computer. If a chat holds personal details, yours or someone else's, store it with care, and delete it when you no longer need it.
Keep your own copy by hand
- Export your data from the AI. In ChatGPT, Settings, then Data controls, then Export data sends you a .zip of your whole history. Other AIs have similar options in their settings. Complete, but it's everything at once.
- Print to PDF. Open the chat, press Ctrl+P (or Cmd+P on a Mac) and choose Save as PDF. Fine for a short chat; a long one often comes out messy.
The faster way: Export, in Uncook
With the Uncook extension, open the chat in ChatGPT, click the Uncook icon and choose Export. Pick PDF, Markdown or plain text, and you get that one chat, clean, as a file on your computer.
Export runs in your browser: the chat isn't sent to our servers, and nothing is kept on our side. It's free, PDF included, and doesn't count as a task. It works the same way on chats from Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and the other AIs Uncook reads.
Using Export doesn't make anyone compliant with any law. It gives you a copy, that's all.
What to keep, and where
- Keep what you'll need again, not everything. A handful of chats you'd hate to lose is easier to look after than a whole history.
- Choose the format for the use: PDF to read or attach, Markdown to reuse in notes, plain text for the simplest copy.
- Name files clearly, with the AI, the topic and the date.
- Delete what you no longer need, from your computer and, if you want, from the AI's history too.
Questions people ask
Does the DPDP Act require me to save my AI chats? This guide can't answer legal questions. Keeping a copy is a personal choice, not a legal step. For what the law requires, read the official text or ask a lawyer.
Does Uncook see the chats I export? No. Export runs in your browser, through the extension, and the chat isn't sent to our servers.
Can I export all my chats at once? Uncook exports one chat at a time, from the AI's page. For your whole history, use the AI's own data export.
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Add to Chrome
Export runs in your browser, through the extension. The chat isn't sent to our servers, and nothing is kept on our side.
We don't keep the conversations you bring. When you click Send to Uncook in the extension window, the extension sends the chat from your tab to our servers, encrypted, for up to 30 minutes, and we delete it as soon as your Uncook page opens it. What Uncook makes from it is kept as a task, for as long as our Privacy page says. Neither your chats nor your tasks are used to train AI models.