How we use your information
Aberdeen City Council are required by law to undertake consultation with the community on the possible introduction of a Visitor Levy scheme.
By participating in this consultation you will help the Council understand your thoughts on the proposed scheme in Aberdeen, and the impact that may have on the community.
You can submit your response without giving us your name, we do ask for your post code to understand which areas responses are received from.
If you provide any comments, we may share a summary of these with Councillors (after removing any personal data which may have inadvertently been included) to help them make a decision on whether to implement the proposed scheme. We may also use the comments in the consultation report, but you won’t be identified as having made the comments.
The consultation also asks questions about you. This information is voluntary. By providing this information you help us to 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. The information will be used to assess the likely impact of the proposals on different groups of people with protected characteristics, and an anonymised summary of this will be shared with Councillors.
The Consultation report will be submitted to the Finance & Resources Committee and published on the Council’s website and will be available for inspection by the public.
How long we keep information for
We will keep your response until we have completed the analysis that will inform the consultation report. We will keep the anonymised summary information for one year from the end of the consultation.
The consultation report submitted to the Finance & Resources Committee, and published on the Council’s website which will be kept permanently. This will not contain any data that can identify you as an individual.
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’s understands its legal basis for this processing as being public task.
We may 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, of the purpose of equality monitoring.