Terms of Service

These terms govern your use of Etudio. They reflect how the product works today; they will be finalized with legal review before public launch.

Scope

These terms apply to the use of Etudio at etudio.app by consumers within the meaning of § 13 BGB. The provider is the operator of Etudio named in the Imprint. Terms of your own do not become part of the contract.

What Etudio is

Etudio is a tool for planning and recording your own practice: you create pieces, exercises, and tasks, log practice sessions, and review your history. Etudio does not teach, gives no music-pedagogical advice, and owes no learning outcome.

Formation of the contract and minimum age

The contract is formed on registration: you complete the sign-up form, we send you a confirmation email, and following the link in it sets up your account.

Etudio is open to people aged 14 and over.

• If you are 16 or older, you can register yourself.
• If you are 14 or 15, the consent of your parents or another legal guardian is required (§§ 106 et seq. BGB). At registration you confirm that this consent exists.
• Under 14, registration is not possible.

Your age is a self-declaration; it is not verified. [Whether self-declaration suffices for the 14-15 bracket, or whether confirmation must be obtained from the guardian directly, is to be settled during legal review.]

Your obligations

You keep your credentials confidential and do not pass your account to third parties. You do not submit content that infringes the rights of others or breaks applicable law, and you warrant that you hold the necessary rights to everything you submit.

Your content

What you create in Etudio, meaning your items, notes, and practice logs, stays yours. You grant us only the simple, royalty-free right to store, back up, and display this content to you, as far as running Etudio requires. This right ends when you delete your account; backups then remain only for the period stated in the Privacy policy.

If we are notified that content is unlawful, we review it and may block or remove it. We tell you when we do, with our reasons. Notices reach us at the email address given in the Imprint.

Availability

We aim for a continuously available service but owe no particular level of availability. Maintenance, incidents at our hosting provider, and ongoing development can cause interruptions.

Changes to Etudio

We keep developing Etudio and may change the service when there is a valid reason, such as security, new legal requirements, a changed technical environment, a growing number of users, or improvements to existing features. Such changes cost you nothing, and the core features remain: creating items, logging practice time, reviewing your history, and exporting your data.

If a change impairs your access to Etudio or its usability more than insignificantly, we tell you by email in good time beforehand what changes and when. You may then end the contract free of charge within 30 days of that notice, or within 30 days of the change if it comes later.

Pricing

[Etudio is in a public preview phase and is currently free to use. The tiers and limits shown on the pricing page are not yet enforced. This section is to be replaced when billing is introduced, together with right-of-withdrawal information, payment terms, and subscription periods.]

Term and cancellation

The contract runs indefinitely. You may delete your account at any time, without giving reasons, in your account settings; this ends the contract, and we delete your account and your content. Export anything you want to keep first. We may terminate with 30 days' notice in text form; the right to terminate for cause remains unaffected.

Liability

We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for damages arising from injury to life, body, or health, and under the German Product Liability Act. For simple negligence we are liable only for breach of a material contractual obligation, limited to the foreseeable damage typical for this type of contract. A material obligation is one whose fulfillment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose observance you may regularly rely. [The liability clause is to be confirmed during legal review.]

Etudio is not a backup service. Keep your own copy of anything that matters to you, for example through the data export in your account settings.

Changes to these terms

New terms apply to you only once you agree to them. We will email you about the changes at least 30 days before they are meant to take effect and ask for your agreement. If you do not agree, the previous terms continue to apply to you; we may then end the contract under the rules in "Term and cancellation".

Without your agreement we adjust these terms only where a law, a court, or an authority requires it, or where the change is solely to your benefit. We tell you about such changes by email beforehand as well. [The amendment clause is to be confirmed during legal review.]

Final provisions

German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods; mandatory consumer protection provisions of the country where you have your habitual residence remain unaffected.

How we handle your data is set out in the Privacy policy.