1. Introduction

Welcome to MasterPiano. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you use our piano practice application.

2. Information We Collect

We collect the following types of information:

Account Information: Email address and authentication data when you create an account.
Practice Data: Your practice sessions, progress, and performance metrics.
MIDI Data: Input from your connected MIDI keyboard during practice sessions.
Usage Data: How you interact with our application to improve our services.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use your information to:

Provide and maintain our piano practice services
Track your progress and provide personalized practice recommendations
Improve and optimize our application
Communicate with you about updates and new features
Ensure the security of your account
Publish aggregated, de-identified statistics from practice data, for example how often notes are missed in a bar of a public piece across many players. These never include names, emails, account IDs or private uploads, and every figure combines at least 50 players.

4. Data Storage and Security

Your data is stored securely using industry-standard encryption and security practices. We use Supabase as our backend infrastructure, which provides enterprise-grade security including encryption at rest and in transit. Session recordings from our website and apps are stored on a server we run ourselves at Hetzner in Germany.

5. Data Sharing

We do not sell your personal data. We may share your information only in the following circumstances:

With service providers who assist in operating our application
When required by law or to protect our legal rights
With your explicit consent

6. Your Rights

You have the right to:

Access your personal data
Correct inaccurate data
Request deletion of your data
Export your practice data
Opt out of marketing communications

7. Cookies, Analytics and Session Recordings

We use essential cookies to keep you signed in and remember your preferences.

We measure how our website and apps are used with our own analytics, stored in our own database: for example pages visited, features used and errors. When you are signed in, this is linked to your account so we can fix problems you run into.

To find problems in the design of our product, we record how new players use it: pages, clicks, taps and scrolling. In the apps and the web app this covers the first 7 days of your account, starting at the first launch, before you create an account. We tell you about it during onboarding, and you can turn it off there or at any time in the app's Settings, under Privacy ("Share session recordings to improve MasterPiano"). On our website we record a new account's first 24 hours. What you type is never recorded, and private text such as support messages and names is hidden. All recordings, from the website and the apps, stay on a server we run ourselves. Recordings are deleted after 30 days.

8. MasterPiano in ChatGPT and Claude

When you use the MasterPiano plugin in ChatGPT or Claude, the assistant sends us what a request needs: the search words, piece, level, grade or key you asked for, and its language setting. ChatGPT also sends a rough location, which we do not keep. We keep each request with the tool used, the result, the time and the language setting for 12 months, to count use and improve answers.

We do not receive your name, email address, account or the rest of your conversation, and the plugin needs no MasterPiano account. ChatGPT sends an anonymous user code; we keep it only scrambled with our own secret key, so it cannot be matched to your ChatGPT account outside MasterPiano, and use it only to count how many people use the plugin. Your conversation itself is covered by OpenAI's or Anthropic's privacy policy. When you follow a link from the plugin to our website, the website's normal analytics apply.

9. Children's Privacy

Our service is not directed to children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us.

10. Schools, Teachers and the Free Tools

This section is for teachers, schools and districts who link students to the free tools on masterpiano.com, such as the note reading trainer, chords, scales, the circle of fifths and the sight-reading worksheets.

No account needed. The free tools work without an account, an email address or a name. We never ask students for them to use a tool.
No ads and no data sales. The tools show no ads, we run no advertising trackers on them, and we do not sell or rent any data.
What a visit records. Our own analytics, stored in our own database, record each page view and tool event (for example a game started or a worksheet printed) with: the page address, the referring site, the country, the device type, operating system and browser, the full browser details sent by the browser, the IP address, and a random visitor code kept in the browser's local storage. The country comes from our hosting provider, Vercel, based on the IP address; we do not store the city or a precise location for website visits. We use this only to count use, find errors and improve the tools, and never to identify a student.
No session recordings on the free tools. Website session recordings start only after someone creates an account, so anonymous tool visits are never recorded.
No microphone. None of the free tools on the website uses the microphone. In the MasterPiano app, when a player chooses the microphone, sound is turned into notes on their device and no audio recording is sent to us.
COPPA. The free tools do not collect names, email addresses, photos, voice or other personal information that COPPA covers from children, beyond the IP address and visitor code used for counting visits as described above. The MasterPiano app and its accounts are not directed to children under 13.
FERPA. We receive no education records from schools, and the free tools need no student roster or login. A school that uses the tools does not disclose education records to us. If a school wants a written data agreement, contact us.
Deletion on request. A school, teacher, parent or student can ask us to delete data linked to a device or account. We delete it within 30 days and confirm by email.
Who we are. MasterPiano is made by Imhura Inc. Questions and deletion requests go through our contact page below.

11. Changes to This Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any significant changes by posting the new policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date.

12. Contact Us

If you have questions about this privacy policy or your personal data, please contact us at our contact page.

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