How we use your information
In advance of Aberdeen City Councils Come and Network (CAN) Event programme we are asking for your help to assist in designing the workshop programme.
We collect and record information about you during this survey. Your name and email address will be used to administer the survey and enable individuals to contribute. It is entirely your choice whether or not to enter your name and email address, you can complete the survey anonymously if you wish.
We also ask questions about you. This information is voluntary. By providing this information, you help us monitor the statistical data to ensure the Council is interacting in a balanced way with groups of people with protected characteristics as defined by the Equality Act 2010.
We would like to keep you up to date about future CAN Events and activities. If you are happy for us to do so we will use your email address to send you updates. You can change your mind about receiving this information at any time by emailing us at communities@aberdeencity.gov.uk and we will remove you from the mailing list.
How long we keep your information for
Survey responses will be kept until we complete the analysis that will inform the design of the CAN event programme. We will keep the anonymised statistical information for 3 years, but you will not be identifiable from this information.
If you choose to be kept up to date about future CAN events and activities, we will keep your contact details unit to you tell us you no longer want to hear from us.
Your rights
You’ve got rights in relation to your data, including the right to ask for a copy of it. See more information about the rights you have, how they work in practice, as well as the contact details for the Council’s Data Protection Officer. You also have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office if you think we have not handled your data properly.
Our legal basis
Aberdeen City Council is the Data Controller for this information. Wherever the Council processes personal data, we need to make sure we have a legal basis for doing so in data protection law. The Council understands our legal basis for processing personal data is that it is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of the official authority vested in the Council.
In doing so, we many also process special categories of personal data, should you choose to provide equality and diversity information. The Council’s legal basis for doing so is that it is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest, for the purpose of equality monitoring.