Terms of Service

Version 2026-05-25 · CIS, Diocese and Parish Church Information System · cis.rccph.org

1. Who we are

CIS (the Diocese and Parish Church Information System, in these terms the "Service") is operated by Amta Systems as part of the Amta Cloud platform. You can reach us at amtasystems@gmail.com.

2. What the Service does

The Service is an accounting and canonical-records system built for Roman Catholic parish churches and dioceses in the Philippines. It is freely developed and offered as a service to the Church, with the annual subscription set to cover only hosting and ongoing care. The Service includes a shared chart of accounts, collections and disbursements, mass schedules, and sacramental registers (Baptism, with other rites to follow).

The chart of accounts, books, and financial reports follow The Temporal Administration System National Accounting Manual (2nd edition), the standard accounting manual for Catholic parishes and dioceses in the Philippines.

3. Your data is yours

All records the parish enters or imports (financial transactions, partners, mass schedules, sacramental registers) remain the property of the parish. We act as custodian. We do not share or use parish data for any purpose other than running the service for you.

4. Subscriber and users

The Subscriber is the parish or diocese that signs up. The Subscriber may invite users (e.g. parish secretary, bookkeeper, finance council member) and assign them roles. The Subscriber is responsible for who it gives access to.

5. Subscription fee

The standard subscription is PHP 1,000 per year per subscribing parish or diocese, billed annually. A diocese may sign up on behalf of multiple parishes; in that case the fee is per parish covered. Fees are deliberately set at near-cost.

6. Leaving the service

On cancellation the parish has 60 days to export its records using the formats we provide (CSV for tables, PDF for certificates and reports). After 60 days we delete the live data; backups roll off within another 90 days. Custom exports are available as paid consulting work.

7. Sacramental records

Sacramental records (Baptism, and future rites) are canonical records of the parish of celebration. The parish remains the ecclesiastical record-holder; the Service is only the platform that stores and prints them.

8. Uptime and liability

We work to keep the service available but make no formal uptime guarantee at this price tier. Our total liability to any Subscriber, for any claim, is limited to the fees that Subscriber paid us in the 12 months before the claim.

9. If we shut down the Service

We will give the parish at least 90 days written notice and a final data export window before discontinuing the Service. For sacramental records, we will cooperate in good faith with the diocese to transfer the data to a successor system or back to the parish.

10. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. Material changes will require re-acceptance on next login. Minor wording fixes will be published with a new version date.

11. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of the Philippines.