PRIVACY POLICY

Effective Date: July 21, 2026
Last Updated: July 21, 2026

Mount Calvary Lutheran Church (“Mount Calvary,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you share with us.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information when you visit the Mount Calvary Lutheran Church website, use the MC Connect mobile application, communicate with us, register for an event or program, make a donation, or otherwise interact with our online services.

1. Contact Information

Mount Calvary Lutheran Church
301 County Road 19
Excelsior, Minnesota

Phone: 952-474-8893
Email: info@mountcalvary.org

2. Information We May Collect

The information we collect depends on how you use our website, the MC Connect app, and related services.

Information You Provide

We may collect information that you voluntarily provide, including:

• Your name
• Email address
• Telephone number
• Mailing address
• Household or family information
• Registration information
• Event, program, ministry, or volunteer preferences
• Donation and transaction information
• Communication preferences
• Messages, questions, comments, or requests you submit
• Information submitted through forms, surveys, registrations, or contact requests

Please do not submit highly sensitive or confidential information through general website or app forms unless the form specifically requests it.

Donations and Payments

When you make a donation or payment through our website or app, the transaction may be processed by a third-party payment provider.

Depending on the service used, Mount Calvary may receive information such as your name, contact information, donation amount, payment date, transaction status, and limited payment details. Full credit card or banking information may be collected and processed directly by the payment provider rather than stored by Mount Calvary.

Third-party payment services maintain their own privacy policies and security practices.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit our website or use MC Connect, certain technical information may be collected automatically, including:

• Internet Protocol address
• Device type
• Operating system
• Browser type
• App version
• Device or app identifiers
• Pages, screens, or features viewed
• Dates and times of access
• Referring website or link
• General usage and diagnostic information
• Crash reports and performance information
• Push-notification tokens and notification interactions

This information helps us operate, secure, maintain, and improve our website and app.

3. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our website and third-party services may use cookies, pixels, local storage, software development kits, and similar technologies.

These technologies may be used to:

• Remember preferences
• Maintain website functionality
• Understand how visitors use our services
• Measure website or app performance
• Diagnose technical issues
• Improve navigation and content
• Support embedded videos, livestreams, forms, registrations, and other features

You may be able to limit cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect the functionality of certain website features.

4. Mobile App Permissions

MC Connect may request access to certain device functions when necessary to provide a feature. Depending on the app’s current functionality, permissions may include notifications, internet access, media access, camera access, or other device features.

We will only request permissions that are reasonably related to an app feature. You may manage app permissions through your device settings.

MC Connect does not intentionally access your precise location, contacts, microphone, camera, photos, or files unless you affirmatively use a feature that requires such access or grant the related permission.

5. Push Notifications

With your permission, MC Connect may send push notifications concerning:

• Worship services
• Church news
• Upcoming events
• Program registrations
• Schedule changes
• Ministry opportunities
• Livestreams and sermons
• Important announcements

You may disable push notifications at any time through your mobile device settings.

6. How We Use Information

We may use collected information to:

• Provide and operate our website and MC Connect
• Communicate with visitors, members, participants, and donors
• Respond to questions or requests
• Provide worship schedules, livestreams, sermons, and church information
• Process event, class, ministry, volunteer, and program registrations
• Process donations and maintain contribution records
• Send confirmations, receipts, reminders, and announcements
• Manage communication preferences
• Deliver push notifications
• Maintain attendance and participation records
• Provide pastoral, ministry, or administrative support when requested
• Improve our programs, communications, website, and app
• Monitor usage, performance, and technical reliability
• Prevent fraud, misuse, security incidents, and unlawful activity
• Comply with legal, accounting, tax, insurance, and administrative obligations
• Protect the rights, safety, and property of Mount Calvary and others

We do not sell personal information for money.

7. How We May Share Information

We may share information in the following circumstances.

Service Providers

We may share information with vendors and service providers that help us operate our church, website, app, and ministry programs. These providers may include companies that provide:

• Website and app hosting
• Church-management software
• Registration and form services
• Donation and payment processing
• Email and text-message delivery
• Push notifications
• Video hosting and livestreaming
• Analytics and performance monitoring
• Data storage and backup
• Technical support
• Accounting, legal, insurance, or administrative services

These providers may process information only as necessary to provide services to Mount Calvary and are subject to their own privacy and security practices.

Church Staff and Ministry Leaders

Information may be shared with authorized staff members, volunteers, ministry leaders, or program coordinators when reasonably necessary to respond to a request, administer a program, coordinate an event, provide care, or carry out church operations.

Legal and Safety Reasons

We may disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to:

• Comply with a law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or legal process
• Cooperate with law enforcement or government authorities
• Protect someone from harm
• Investigate suspected fraud, abuse, or security incidents
• Enforce our policies
• Protect the rights, safety, or property of Mount Calvary, our community, or others

Organizational Changes

If Mount Calvary restructures, combines operations with another organization, or transfers responsibility for a ministry or service, relevant information may be transferred as part of that change, subject to applicable law.

8. Third-Party Services and Links

Our website and app may contain links to or integrations with third-party websites and services, including livestreaming platforms, social-media platforms, maps, registration systems, giving platforms, and embedded media.

When you use a third-party service, that provider may collect information according to its own privacy policy. Mount Calvary does not control and is not responsible for the privacy practices, content, or security of third-party services.

We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any third-party service you use.

9. Livestreams, Photographs, and Recorded Events

Mount Calvary may livestream or record worship services, programs, and public church events. Photographs or video recordings may also be taken during church activities and used for ministry, communication, archival, promotional, or educational purposes.

Individuals attending public services or events may appear incidentally in photographs, recordings, or livestreams.

Questions or concerns about photography or recording may be directed to info@mountcalvary.org.

10. Children’s Privacy

Mount Calvary provides ministries, events, and programs for children and families. Our general website and MC Connect app are intended for a broad audience and are not designed to independently collect personal information directly from children under 13 without the involvement of a parent or legal guardian.

Parents or legal guardians should submit registrations and personal information for children.

If we learn that personal information was submitted directly by a child under 13 without appropriate permission, we will take reasonable steps to delete it. A parent or legal guardian who believes a child has submitted information may contact us at info@mountcalvary.org.

Information collected through youth-program registrations, permission forms, or ministry activities may be retained and used as reasonably necessary to administer those programs, protect participants, communicate with families, and meet legal or insurance obligations.

11. Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to:

• Provide requested services
• Administer church programs
• Maintain contribution and financial records
• Meet legal, tax, accounting, insurance, and recordkeeping obligations
• Resolve disputes
• Protect the safety and security of our systems and community

Retention periods vary depending on the type of information and the reason it was collected. Information that is no longer reasonably needed may be deleted, anonymized, or securely archived.

12. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards intended to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no website, mobile application, transmission method, or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You are responsible for protecting your device, passwords, and account credentials.

13. Your Choices and Requests

You may contact us to:

• Request access to personal information we maintain about you
• Ask us to correct inaccurate information
• Request deletion of certain personal information
• Update your contact information
• Change your communication preferences
• Unsubscribe from nonessential email communications
• Ask questions about our privacy practices

Requests may be submitted to info@mountcalvary.org or by calling 952-474-8893.

We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. Certain information may be retained when required for legal, tax, accounting, donation-recordkeeping, safety, or legitimate administrative purposes.

You may also control certain data through:

• Your browser’s privacy and cookie settings
• Your mobile device’s permission settings
• Your device’s push-notification settings
• Unsubscribe links included in applicable emails

14. App Account and Data Deletion

If MC Connect allows users to create an account, you may request deletion of your account and associated personal information by emailing info@mountcalvary.org.

Please include:

• Your name
• The email address associated with the account
• A statement that you are requesting deletion of your MC Connect account or data

After verifying the request, we will delete or anonymize applicable information unless retention is required for legal, financial, tax, safety, security, or administrative purposes.

Deleting the MC Connect app from your device does not automatically delete information previously submitted through registrations, donations, forms, or other church systems.

15. Communications

You may receive transactional communications related to registrations, donations, schedule changes, account activity, or requests you submit.

You may unsubscribe from optional promotional or informational emails by using the unsubscribe link provided in the message or by contacting us. Even after opting out of optional communications, we may send necessary administrative or transactional messages.

16. Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” setting. Because there is not a universally accepted standard for responding to these signals, our website may not respond to every Do Not Track request.

You may use your browser and device privacy settings to limit cookies and certain forms of tracking.

17. Users Outside the United States

Mount Calvary is located in Minnesota, United States. If you access our services from outside the United States, your information may be transferred to, processed in, and stored in the United States, where privacy laws may differ from those in your location.

18. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our website, app, ministry operations, technology, legal requirements, or privacy practices.

The updated policy will be posted on our website with a revised “Last Updated” date. Material changes may also be communicated through the app, website, email, or another appropriate method.

Your continued use of the website or MC Connect after an updated policy is posted indicates your acknowledgment of the revised policy.

19. Contact Us

Questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy may be directed to:

Mount Calvary Lutheran Church
301 County Road 19
Excelsior, Minnesota

Phone: 952-474-8893
Email: info@mountcalvary.org