Privacy Policy

1. Overview & Purpose

St. Mary's Community ("we," "our," or "portal") is committed to safeguarding the privacy and sanctity of personal data provided by parishioners, pilgrims, and community visitors. This policy outlines how information is gathered, utilized, and secured across our web ecosystem.

2. Information We Collect

We only collect personal information that you voluntarily submit through our online forms:

• Contact Submissions: Full name, email address, telephone number, and message inquiries.
• Altar Prayer Intentions: Name, optional contact details, intention categories, and spiritual petitions.
• Technical Telemetry: Anonymized IP addresses, browser types, and form submission timestamps strictly used for spam prevention and rate-limiting.

3. Sanctity & Privacy of Prayer Intentions

All spiritual petitions submitted for Eucharistic celebrations and novena devotions are treated with strict confidentiality. Personal petitions are never sold, rented, or shared publicly unless explicit written permission is provided for community testimonials.

4. How Information Is Utilized

• To address administrative questions, feast information, and parish certificate requests.
• To place prayer petitions reverently before parish altars for liturgical intercessions.
• To safeguard our web portal against automated spam, brute-force requests, and unauthorized access.

5. Cookies & Tracking

Our portal uses minimal session storage and cookies essential for navigation, language selection, and user interface preferences. We do not use third-party behavioral ad tracking or data brokers.

6. Your Rights & Data Erasure

You retain the right to review, update, or request the complete deletion of your submitted correspondence and contact details from our records at any time.