Asia Pacific

PDPA (Thailand)

Personal Data Protection Act B.E. 2562 (2019)

Thailand’s first comprehensive data protection law, closely modelled on the GDPR. It requires a lawful basis for processing personal data, with explicit consent the most common basis for non-essential cookies. The law is enforced by the Personal Data Protection Committee (PDPC Thailand).

At a glance

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Region
Thailand
Status
Fully enforceable since June 2022
Penalties
Administrative fines up to THB 5 million per violation, plus criminal penalties (including imprisonment) and civil damages including punitive damages up to twice the actual loss.
Who it affects
Data controllers and processors in Thailand, wherever the processing takes place, and those outside Thailand that offer goods or services to people in Thailand or monitor their behaviour there.

What Thailand’s PDPA requires

  • Have a lawful basis for processing personal data and, where that basis is consent, request it explicitly, in writing or electronically.
  • Tell people, before or when you collect their data, the purpose, what you collect, how long you keep it, who may receive it and their rights.
  • Allow data subjects to access, correct, delete and port their data.
  • Appoint a Data Protection Officer for certain categories of processing.
  • Notify the PDPC Office of a personal data breach without delay, and within 72 hours where feasible, unless it is unlikely to put people at risk. Tell affected people without delay when the risk is high.
  • Sign data processing agreements with vendors that handle personal data.
The banner’s first layer: a short notice, Necessary, Analytics and Marketing switches, and Reject all beside Accept all

What the banner does here

The same opt-in mode as in the EU and UK: non-essential cookies are blocked until the visitor chooses, with Reject all beside Accept all at the same size, and no pre-ticked boxes.

How GrantCookie covers it

  • Scheduled scans. The scanner finds the cookies and trackers your site sets, sorts them into categories and re-checks on every scheduled scan, so the banner asks about what is really there.
  • Provable records. Every choice is timestamped and stored with the banner version the visitor saw. Paid plans include consent log export.
  • Withdrawing consent. A re-open control stays on every page, so visitors can withdraw or change their choice at any time.
The consent log: each row has a timestamp in UTC, a consent ID and the visitor’s choice

This page is general guidance. It is not legal advice. Check your specific obligations with a qualified adviser.

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