Privacy Notice

The Ministry of Altar Servers is the altar serving ministry of San Pedro Cathedral Parish, Davao City. This notice explains what personal information the ministry collects through this website, why, and what we do with it.

When someone applies to serve, the form asks for:

• Their name, date of birth, and a 2×2 photograph
• Their home address, GKK or BEC community, and zone
• Their parents' or guardians' names and contact numbers, and an emergency contact
• Baptismal, First Communion, and Confirmation certificates, where these have been issued
• Any medical condition the applicant chooses to tell us about, so that officers know what to do if they are unwell while serving

Once someone is serving, the ministry also records their Mass assignments, their attendance, any suspension and its reason, and messages they send to the officers.

To review applications, to roster servers for Mass, to keep a record of attendance, and to reach a server's family if something happens while they are serving. Nothing collected here is used for advertising, and nothing is sold or given to anyone outside the ministry.

Altar servers are usually minors. The application form therefore asks for the name of the parent or guardian giving consent, and records when it was given. Without that consent the application is not accepted.

Only officers of the ministry. Members see their own record, their own schedule, their own attendance, and the names of the servers rostered alongside them — nothing more. Certificates and photographs are stored privately and are never published or made available by link.

Records are held in a private database, and documents and photographs in private storage — either the ministry's own secure storage or the parish's Google Drive account, which only the ministry can reach. Files are only ever shown through this website, after checking who is asking.

Applications and member records are kept for as long as the person is part of the ministry, and afterwards as part of the parish's records of who has served. Anyone may ask for their records to be removed; where the ministry is not obliged to keep them, they will be.

Under the Philippine Data Privacy Act of 2012, you may ask to see the information the ministry holds about you, to have it corrected if it is wrong, to object to how it is used, and to have it removed where the ministry has no reason to keep it. A parent or guardian may do this on behalf of a child.

Speak with any officer of the Ministry of Altar Servers, or write to the parish office at San Pedro Cathedral, San Pedro Street, Davao City.