Terms of use

1About us and these terms

ClearyKeys is a trade name of Cleary Piano Lessons, the sole proprietorship (eenmanszaak) of Lorcan Cleary in Amsterdam, registered with the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce (KvK) under number 90984757. In these terms, “we” and “us” mean Cleary Piano Lessons, trading as ClearyKeys, and “you” means the person using the app or this website.

These terms apply to the ClearyKeys app and to clearykeys.com. By using either, you agree to them. Premium subscriptions are also covered by our subscription terms, and how we handle personal data is set out in our privacy policy.

2Using ClearyKeys

We give you a personal, non-exclusive and non-transferable licence to use ClearyKeys on devices you own or control, for your own practice and study. Teachers are welcome to use it in their lessons, for example to show a student an exercise or to generate a sight-reading piece together.

You download ClearyKeys from Google Play. The app opens from app.clearykeys.com, where its updates come from, so it stays up to date without a new download. The Google Play Terms of Service also apply to the download and to anything you buy through Google Play.

3Age

ClearyKeys is designed for teenagers and adults. If you’re under 18, a parent or carer should read these terms with you, and you’ll need their permission to subscribe to Premium once it’s on sale.

An account is optional. If you’re under 16, a parent or carer needs to agree before you make one: the app asks your age first, and a parent or carer ticks a box to say they agree. Our privacy policy explains what this means.

4Premium

Every tool in ClearyKeys can be used for free. Premium isn’t on sale yet. When it is, it will be an optional monthly subscription, at €6.49 a month in the Netherlands including VAT. Prices differ by country, and Google Play shows yours, with VAT, before you confirm. It will renew automatically until you cancel, and you’ll be able to cancel at any time in Google Play. Refunds for Premium bought through Google Play are made through Google Play, and your legal rights as a consumer still apply. We also give some people a code for Premium. The full details, including codes, renewal, refunds and your right of withdrawal, are in the subscription terms.

5Your data and recordings

Your pieces, plans, practice history and recordings are yours. They’re stored on your phone, in Chrome’s storage for app.clearykeys.com. If you make an account, a copy of your progress is kept in it as well, but not your recordings or scanned scores. Without an account, we can’t restore anything if your phone is lost, reset or replaced, or if that storage is cleared.

Use Settings → Your data → Save a backup to keep a copy. A backup includes your plan, pieces, progress and settings. Recordings and scanned scores aren’t part of it, so download the ones you want to keep: scores as PDFs, and recordings as audio files.

6Practising safely

The Practice Lab and the rest of ClearyKeys offer practice approaches and exercises. They are not a medical diagnosis or treatment. Take breaks, and stop playing if something hurts. If pain, numbness or tension keeps coming back, see a doctor or a physiotherapist who works with musicians.

7What you may not do

• copy, sell, rent or pass on the app or its content
• get around the Premium check, or help others to
• take the app apart or copy its code, except where the law allows it
• use ClearyKeys or its content to build a competing product
• add scores, photos, PDFs or recordings that you don’t have the right to use, such as a copy of someone else’s music you weren’t allowed to make. What you add stays on your phone, and you’re responsible for it

If you seriously or repeatedly break these rules, we may end your licence to use the app.

8Ownership

The app, its text, exercises, courses and design, the name ClearyKeys and the ClearyKeys logo belong to Lorcan Cleary. Sight-reading pieces are generated by the app for you, and you’re free to print and use them in your own practice and teaching.

ClearyKeys also uses material shared under open licences, such as its piano sound and typefaces. These are listed with their licences on our credits page.

9Our responsibility to you

We work to make ClearyKeys accurate and reliable. As a consumer, you have legal rights if the app or Premium doesn’t work as described, and these terms don’t limit them.

As far as the law allows, we aren’t responsible for indirect loss, or for practice data lost because it wasn’t backed up. Our total responsibility to you is limited to what you paid for Premium in the 12 months before the claim. None of this limits our responsibility for loss caused by our intent or gross negligence, or anything else the law doesn’t allow us to limit.

10Updates, changes and ending

We update ClearyKeys to fix problems and add features, and some updates may be needed to keep using it.

You can stop using ClearyKeys at any time by cancelling any subscription and deleting the app. To delete your practice as well, use Settings → Your data → Delete everything first.

If we change these terms, we’ll update the date at the top. If a change matters to you, we’ll tell you in the app before it takes effect. If you don’t agree with a change, you can cancel and stop using the app.

11Law and disputes

These terms are governed by Dutch law. If you’re a consumer living elsewhere in the EU, you also keep the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of your own country, and you can bring a claim in the courts where you live.

If something goes wrong, please email us first. Most problems can be sorted out quickly.

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