How we use your information
By participating in this consultation, you will help Aberdeen City Council determine your thoughts on the draft Aberdeen Planning Guidance on Health Impact Assessments.
Your responses to the questions will be used for statistical purposes only. If you do provide any comments, we may use them in a report summarising the comments on the consultation, but you won’t be identified as having made the comment. This report will be published on the Council’s website.
The consultation also asks questions about you. This information is voluntary. By providing the 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.
How long we keep your information
Responses will be kept until we complete the analysis of the responses which will be used to inform decisions on the final content of the Aberdeen Planning Guidance. The results of the consultation will be communicated to Council Committee in the form of a report, as noted above, which will be published on the Council website and will be kept permanently.
Your rights
You have rights in relation to your data, including the right to ask for a copy of it. See more information about all of the rights you have and how they work in practice, as well as 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 your information. Wherever we process personal data we must have a legal basis in data protection law for doing so. The Council understands our legal basis for processing your data as being part of our public task.
In doing so, we are also likely to process special categories of personal data about you. The Council understands our legal basis as being necessary for reasons of substantial public interest.