Terms of Service

Recital is software for music schools and teaching studios. A school uses it to schedule lessons, keep track of families, students and teachers, send messages and homework, and send invoices that families can pay by card.

A school is the business that signs up and subscribes. The person who creates the school's account (the owner) agrees to these terms on the school's behalf and confirms they're allowed to. A school can invite teachers and families (parents and guardians) to sign in; they agree to these terms too, as far as they apply to them.

• You must be at least 18 (or the age of majority where you live) to have a Recital account. Students don't have their own accounts; a parent or guardian signs in for the family.
• Give accurate information and keep your password to yourself. You're responsible for what happens under your account.
• The owner decides who in the school can sign in and can remove a teacher's or family's access at any time.
• Tell us right away at hello@recitalmusic.com if you think someone has got into your account.

• Every new school gets a 60-day free trial. We don't ask for a card to start, and nothing is charged unless you choose to subscribe.
• The subscription is $20 a month per school, billed monthly in advance by card through Stripe. It renews automatically each month until you cancel. Taxes may be added where required.
• You can cancel anytime from the Billing page. You keep access until the end of the month you've paid for. We don't give refunds for partial months, but if something went wrong, write to us and we'll be fair about it.
• If we change the price, we'll tell the owner by email at least 30 days before it applies to you, so you can cancel first if you prefer.
• If a payment fails and isn't sorted out, we may pause the school's access until it is. The school's information is kept and comes back when the subscription restarts.

Schools can connect their own Stripe account to collect tuition. When a family pays an invoice, the payment goes from the family to the school through Stripe. Recital is not a party to that payment: we don't hold the money, we take no cut, and we aren't the seller of the lessons.

• The school is responsible for its prices, invoices, refunds, cancellation and make-up policies, receipts and taxes, and for handling any disputes or chargebacks with its families.
• Stripe's own terms apply to payments, including the Stripe Connected Account Agreement for schools. Stripe's card fees are charged to the school by Stripe.
• Families with a question about a charge should contact their school first.

Everything a school puts into Recital (students, families, teachers, lessons, notes, messages, invoices, its logo and so on) belongs to the school. The school gives us permission to store, copy and display it only as needed to run Recital for the school and the people it invites. We don't sell it and we don't use it for advertising. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle it.

The school is responsible for that information. In particular, the school confirms that:

• it has the right to put it into Recital, including any permission it needs from parents or guardians for information about children;
• it follows the laws that apply to it, including privacy and consumer laws and any rules about messaging families;
• the messages, notes and files it and its teachers send through Recital are lawful and appropriate.

The owner can ask for a copy of the school's information, or for it to be deleted, by emailing hello@recitalmusic.com.

Please don't use Recital to:

• break the law, or harass, threaten or harm anyone;
• send spam or messages to people who haven't agreed to hear from you;
• upload viruses, or try to get into accounts, schools or parts of Recital that aren't yours;
• copy, resell or reverse-engineer Recital, or overload it with automated traffic.

We may suspend or close an account that does these things. Where it's reasonable, we'll warn you first.

We work hard to keep Recital running, secure and backed up, and we keep improving it. We may add, change or remove features over time. If we ever plan to shut Recital down, we'll give schools at least 30 days' notice and a way to get a copy of their information.

Recital and its design, code and name belong to us. Using Recital doesn't give you any ownership of it.

Recital is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent the law allows, we make no promises beyond those in these terms, including any implied promises that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or fit for a particular purpose. Recital is a tool to help run a school; it doesn't give legal, tax or financial advice, and the school stays responsible for its own business decisions.

To the fullest extent the law allows, Recital won't be liable for indirect or consequential losses, such as lost profits, lost revenue, lost data or lost goodwill, even if we were told they might happen. Our total liability for any claims about Recital is limited to the amount the school paid us in the 12 months before the claim (or $50 if that's more). Some places don't allow these limits, so they may not all apply to you.

If someone makes a claim against Recital because of information a school put into Recital, or because of the school's dealings with its families, teachers or students (including tuition and refunds), the school agrees to cover Recital's reasonable costs of that claim, including legal fees.

A school can cancel its subscription at any time, and anyone can stop using Recital. We may close an account that breaks these terms. After a school cancels, we keep its information so it can come back, unless the owner asks us to delete it.

We may update these terms as Recital grows. If a change is important, we'll tell owners by email or in the app before it takes effect. The date at the top shows when they last changed. Continuing to use Recital after a change means you accept the new terms.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. If any part of these terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies. If we don't enforce something right away, we haven't given up the right to later. These terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the whole agreement between you and Recital about using it.