How we use your information
Aberdeen City Council wants to give people a greater say in the budget-setting process as part of a wider commitment to having a transparent, accessible and accountable City.
Phase 1 will be held from 19 August to 15 September 2024 and invites you to have your say on the impact of budget proposals. This will carried out through a combination of online surveys and face to face events.
During Phase 1, additional targeted engagement opportunities will take place to help further understand what impact specific budget options may have on people with protected characteristics. Protected characteristics includes age; disability; gender reassignment; marriage or civil partnership (in employment only); pregnancy and maternity; race; religion or belief; sex; and sexual orientation.
Your views and comments from Phase 1 will be reported to Full Council on 2 October 2024. The report will be shared with all Elected Members to help them decide how to allocate funds for running services and set council tax and fees and charges.
Phase 2 will be during Autumn 2024 and further details will be published in due course. Your views and comments from Phase 2 will be reported to Full Council 11 December 2024.
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.
How long we keep your information
Responses will be kept until we complete the analysis that will inform the Budget-setting process. Thereafter, we will keep statistical data beyond this point, but you will not be identifiable from this information. This will not contain any data that can identify you as an individual. The resulting report will be published on the Council website until it is superseded and then retained indefinitely. 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 information about the rights you have, 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.
In doing so, 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.