How we use your information
Aberdeen City Council provides public events, festivals and services including Spectra, Scotland’s Festival of Light. We are asking you to participate in this survey as part of our evaluation and improvement process for Spectra. The information gathered will be used to inform the evaluation and improvement of Spectra and other events delivered by Aberdeen City Council including areas of quality, inclusion, accessibility, sustainability, education and economic impact.
Your responses to the questions will be used for statistical purposes only. If you do provide any comments, we may use them for the purpose of reporting to Committee, but you won’t be identified as having made the comment.
The consultation asks questions about you. This information is voluntary and will be used in the analysis of overall responses to 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
We will share high level statistical information with our funders and sponsors who help us to deliver Spectra. You will not be identifiable from this information.
How long we keep your information
Responses will be kept until we complete the analysis of the responses. Thereafter, we will keep statistical data beyond this point, but you will not be identifiable from this information. This information may also be communicated to Council Committee in the form of a report, which will be published on the Council website and will be kept permanently. You will not be identifiable from this information.
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 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 if you think we have not handled your data properly.
Our legal basis
Aberdeen City Council is the Data Controller for your information. Wherever we process personal data we must have a legal basis in data protection law for doing so. 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 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.