Privacy Policy

Ascension Lutheran Church, St. Louis, MO (Content Derived from The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod)

Purpose of this policy

The purpose of this policy is to explain the types of information Ascension Lutheran Church may gather about you, how we may use that information, whether we disclose it to anyone, and the choices you have regarding our use of, and your ability to change or correct, the information.

Credit card transactions

For your convenience, Ascension Lutheran Church is pleased to accept a number of major credit cards for online giving and charitable contributions in support of our ministry. Ascension Lutheran Church has partnered with Vanco Payments for the processing of such information. Access to any personal information is restricted to authorized employees, who use credit card information only to process contributions you initiate and authorize.

Safeguarding your personal information

Some pages on our website request and collect information that personally identifies you or allows us to contact you personally. The data may be used to inform you of events and activities in which we think you may have an interest, or it may be used to note opportunities to support the work of Ascension Lutheran Church. We may also use the data to evaluate our programs and design future offerings. The Ascension Lutheran Church website will only collect personal information that you knowingly and voluntarily provide. Although the information collected is used primarily for purposes specified on the submission page, we may add that information to our records and use it to enhance our future contact with you.

When you provide us with personal information, we will normally respond to your inquiry, request or order. We may also contact you to provide information about activities, programs, or special events we believe may interest you. When we send you such information by email, you will always have an immediate opportunity to modify the frequency of or decline any further such communication. Ascension Lutheran Church will not share any of your personal information with any third parties, except as required by law. We do not rent, sell, lend or otherwise provide mailing lists, telephone numbers, mailing addresses or email addresses to other individuals or organizations.

Use of links

Throughout our web pages, we provide links to other sites that may contain information of interest to visitors and members of the Ascension Lutheran Church online community. We take no responsibility for, and exercise no control over, the organizations, views, or accuracy of the information contained on or provided by other servers.

Use of text and images

If you would like to publish information you find on our site, please ask permission by sending your request to commteam@ascensionstl.com. A copyright statement appears at the bottom of pages where text or images are posted on our site with the permission of the original copyright holder. Information about using the Ascension Lutheran Church logo and images is available upon request.

For more information

If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy, please contact us at (314) 832-5600.