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Site Identity

This is the website of The Salvation Army – Philippine Territory, duly registered under Philippine laws as The Salvation Army, Inc. (the “Army”, “Church”, “Organization”, “Institution”). The website address of the Army is https://www.salvationarmy.org.ph and can be expressed in its diminutives such as “salvationarmy.org.ph” or “https://salvationarmy.org.ph”. the Army possesses absolute proprietary rights on all contents displayed and/or shown in this website, digitally or in print. These rights are protected under the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines (R.A. 8942) and the Data Privacy Act of 2012 (R.A. 10173).

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year. If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. Data might be shared to authorities in the event that a violation of R.A. 8942 and/or R.A. 10173 has been committed. All data is encrypted and kept in the highest form of secrecy.

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Legal Disclaimer

The Army seeks to provide valuable information relating to its ministry expressed in its ecclesiastical, social, and educational services. Any misuse, misinterpretation, miscommunication, and/or any quasi (or non-quasi) delict arising from any wrong purview expressed in any damaging and/or maligning to the image of The Salvation Army will be dealt accordingly to the fullest extent permissible by law, but within the bounds of the fullest extent permissible by God expressed in the Bible (the “Scriptures”, “Word of God”) in the context of mediation and conciliation and not by way of penalty under the pretext of compassion with tenderness in Jesus Christ.

The views and opinions of contributing officers, soldiers, adherents, and external correspondents does not reflect the views of the Army, its trustees, its assigns, and its representatives. Viewer, reader, and surfing discretion is strongly advised.

The ministries of the Army are composite of its ecclesiastical, social, and educational services. The Army reserves its rights and privileges to operate as an Organization and an Institution with set definitions of persons to help, assist, and work with, unaffected by social, cultural, and legal pressure to comply in conflicting circumstances against its doctrines and polity unless otherwise overridden by a competent person of authority from The Salvation Army.

The Army as a quasi-military organization reserves all rights and privileges to retain its military tradition in managing its affairs, while doing regular and special business in a civilian manner. Being a quasi-military institution in foregoing its ecclesiastical duties, the Army further reserves all rights and privileges to maintain the military terminologies applicable to its polity, both within its scope of influence and in public appearances.

All officers and soldiers belonging to The Salvation Army reserve all rights and privileges to bear their rank, title, and obligations arising from their rank not limited to their office, career orientation, without prejudice to existing regular armed forces and other uniformed armed services in the Republic of the Philippines.

The Army is vested rights and privileges permissible under the laws of the Republic of the Philippines to enter into the business of providing help and assistance to its clients without prejudice to their social status, sexual orientation, economic background, and other social margins applicable both known and unknown, with utmost priority to those who needs help and assistance the most.

The Salvation Army Philippines, Inc. being a non-stock, not-profit charitable organization in the Philippines is allowed by law guaranteed by religious freedom enshrined by the Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines to accept grants, donations, offerings, tithes, and/or any monetary and non-monetary provisions, conveyances, assignments, and transfers, first from its officers, soldiers, and adherents, and second from the general public, both solicited and unsolicited.

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1843 Leon Guinto Sr. St, Malate 1004 Manila
(02) 8524 0086 | Mondays through Fridays, 09:00 a.m. to 05:00 p.m.