How we use your information
By participating in this consultation and engaging through the communication processes, you will help Aberdeen City Council determine your views on the Aberdeen Rapid Transit project and emerging proposals.
Your response will be used for statistical purposes to inform a report on the Aberdeen Rapid Transit proposals. If you do provide any comments, they may be included in the report, but you won’t be identified as having made the comment.
The results of the consultation will be communicated to Council Committee in the form of a report, which will be published on the Council website and will be kept permanently.
If you respond to the consultation as an individual, then demographic information will be asked about you. However, this information is voluntary. This demographic information will be used in the analysis of overall responses and will 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.
Who we share information with
Information received will only be used for the intended purpose of analysing responses to the Aberdeen Rapid Transit project. This information will be shared with Streets-UK Ltd who will analyse the data on behalf of Aberdeen City Council.
How long we keep information for
Reponses from individuals will be deleted on completion of analysis; responses from organisations will be kept for 1 year, after which they will be deleted. The results of the consultation will be communicated to various Council Committees which will be published on the Council website and will be kept permanently. You will not be identifiable in the report.
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 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. They are the body responsible for making sure organisations like the Council handle your data properly.
Our legal basis
Aberdeen City Council is the Data Controller for this information. Whenever we process personal data, we must have a legal basis in data protection law for doing so. The Council understands its legal basis for this processing as being necessary for the performance of a public task carried out in the public interest and in the exercise of the official authority vested in the Council.
In doing so, we are also likely to process special categories of personal data about you. 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.