How we use your information
Thank you for taking part in Aberdeen City Council’s Open Space audit survey. The data collected will be used to inform our Local Open Space Strategy as well as assisting with future policy, planning, and management of open spaces.
If you would like to receive the Green Times Magazine digital newsletter and/or would like information on volunteering opportunities, we will ask you to give us your email address so that we can keep you up to date. You can change your mind at any time by emailing greentimes@aberdeencity.gov.uk or click the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the emails you will be removed from the mailing list.
How long we keep your information
We will keep response to the survey for 6 months. We will keep statistical data beyond this point, but you will not be identifiable from this information. This data will be used in the refreshed Open Space Strategy which will be available on the Council website until it is superseded and retained indefinitely.
If you request to receive the Green Times Magazine digital newsletter and/or would like to be kept up to date on volunteering opportunities, we will keep your email address until you no longer wish to receive the newsletter or updates.
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, 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 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 understands our legal basis for processing as 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. This is because the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 requires planning authorities to prepare and publish an Open space strategy which must contain an audit of existing provision and assessment of future requirements and other matters the planning authority might consider appropriate.
In doing so, the Council is also likely to process special categories of personal data. The Council understands our legal basis as necessary for reasons of substantial public interest.
Where you have asked us to keep you up to date by sending you the Green Times Magazine and/or volunteering opportunities the Council understands our legal basis as consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time by emailing greentimes@aberdeencity.gov.uk or clicking unsubscribe at the bottom of the emails as explained above.