How we use your information
Community Planning is a way of working which means public bodies work together with communities to plan and provide better public services. Together these public bodies form a community planning partnership (CPP). In Aberdeen the CPP is called Community Planning Aberdeen.
Community Planning Aberdeen members are Aberdeen City Council, ACVO (Aberdeen Council for Voluntary Organisations), Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership, NHS Grampian, North East Scotland College, Police Scotland, Skills Development Scotland, Scottish Enterprise, NESTRANS, Scottish Fire & Rescue Service, Robert Gordon University, and the University of Aberdeen.
The Community Empowerment Act (Scotland) 2015 requires that CPPs prepare and publish a Local Outcome Improvement Plan (LOIP).
Community Planning Aberdeen first published the LOIP for Aberdeen City in August 2016 and it was for 2016-2026. We are now developing our Plan for 2026-36. To support this, we are holding a number of events so you can hear and discuss the current proposals for the LOIP 2026-36.
If you register to attend one of the LOIP development events we will use your contact details to send you the information to enable you to attend and participate pre and post event. The events may be in person or online. If online in connecting to the event your information (name, email address, phone number) may be displayed and visible by all attendees.
The Local Outcome Improvement Plan events encourage all participants to get involved in Community Planning Aberdeen, including the next stage of refresh of the Plans. If you select to get involved, we will only use your contact details to get in touch with you regarding the option you selected for as long as you wish to be involved. If you no longer wish to be involved, please email communityplanning@aberdeencity.gov.uk.
Your views and comments will be used to inform the development of the LOIP plan 2026-36 but these will not be attributed to you as an individual. Output from the event(s) will be shared across Community Planning Aberdeen to support the development of the LOIP 2026-36 and published on the Community Planning Aberdeen website. This will not contain any data that can identify you as an individual. No personal information will be shared.
If you do attend and provide any comments, they may be used in the output, or in other formats that will help us bring your views to life. As above you won’t be identified as having made the comment, unless you agree to this.
If you have any support needs and or dietary requirements, please email communityplanning@aberdeencity.gov.uk. This information will be used for the sole purpose of ensuring these needs and requirements are considered to enable you to participate.
How long we keep your information
Your contact details used to register will be kept for 3 months following the event you attended.
A register of attendees may be published, in doing so this will only contain your name and organisation/community group. No personal information will be published.
The LOIP 2026-36 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 the rights you have and how these 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 data. Wherever we process personal data we must have a legal basis in data protection law and tell you what it is. The Council’s legal basis for this processing 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. Where we are processing you contact details in order to support your involvement with Community Planning Aberdeen the Council understands its legal basis for this processing as being consent because you have consented by providing your contact information. You can withdraw this consent at any time, as explained above.
In doing so, we may 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.