Terms of service
Effective 2 September 2026
These terms cover your use of AfterNote. They are written to be read. If something here does not work for you, email us before you start using it rather than after.
1. The agreement
This is an agreement between you — the tutor or studio using AfterNote — and AfterNote. Using the service means you accept it. If you are agreeing on behalf of a studio, you confirm you are authorised to bind it, and “you” means that studio.
Our privacy policy forms part of this agreement.
2. Definitions
- Service — the AfterNote application, website, and anything we provide through them.
- Student data — the student records you create.
- Lesson content — transcripts of lessons you mark for recording, the practice plans drafted from them, and your notes.
- Your content — student data and lesson content together.
3. Eligibility and your account
You must be at least 18 and able to enter a binding contract. Accounts are currently created by invitation.
AfterNote is a business tool. You are taking it for the purposes of your teaching business, not for personal, family, or household purposes, and you are not acquiring it as a consumer within the meaning of British Columbia’s Business Practices and Consumer Protection Act.
You sign in with Google, so the security of your AfterNote account is the security of your Google account. Keep it protected, do not let anyone else use it, and tell us promptly if you think someone has gained access. You are responsible for everything done under your account.
4. What AfterNote does
AfterNote joins music lessons you have marked for recording in Google Calendar, transcribes them, and drafts a practice plan for each one. You read every plan and decide whether to send it. AfterNote does not schedule lessons and does not bill your students.
5. Your licence to use it
For as long as this agreement is in force, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use the Service for running your own teaching. You may not sublicense it or make it available to anyone else.
6. Your content stays yours
You own your content. We claim no ownership of your student data, your transcripts, your practice plans, or your notes.
You grant us a limited licence to host, store, transmit, and process your content, and to pass it to the vendors named in our privacy policy, strictly to provide the Service to you. That licence exists so we can run the product lawfully, it ends when you delete the content or close your account, and it permits nothing else. We do not use your content to train AI models, to build other products, or for any purpose of our own.
As between you and us, you are the controller of your student data and we process it on your instructions.
7. Permission to record is yours to get
This is the most important clause here, so it is not buried.
Before you mark a lesson for recording:
- You must have the permission of everyone who will be recorded.
- Where a student is under the age of majority where they live, that means the permission of a parent or guardian. Where a student is under 13, United States law requires that permission to be verifiable.
- You must comply with the recording and privacy laws that apply to you and to your student, and the law that applies may be your student’s, not yours. In the United States, roughly a dozen states require every party to a conversation to consent before it is recorded. In Canada, recording a conversation you are part of is generally not a criminal offence, but privacy law still requires consent before you collect someone’s personal information, and a recording of your student is their personal information. British Columbia, Alberta and Quebec each have their own private-sector privacy statute; elsewhere in Canada the federal PIPEDA generally applies to personal information collected in the course of commercial activity.
- You must give any notice those laws require, and keep your own record that you did.
AfterNote does not ask for that permission on your behalf, does not verify that you have it, and is not responsible if you do not. If you are unsure whether you may record a particular lesson, do not mark it.
8. Student information
You decide which students to add and what to record about them. You confirm you are entitled to enter that information and to have practice plans sent to the addresses you give us, and that you have any consent required to do either.
9. The practice plans are drafts
Each plan is drafted by an AI model from a transcript of the lesson, and it can be wrong. It can attribute a remark to the wrong person, get a piece or a tempo wrong, or state something that was never said. That is why nothing is sent until you have read it and pressed send.
What you send goes out over your studio’s name, and you are responsible for it. Read every plan before sending it. Do not rely on AfterNote’s output for anything where being wrong would matter, without checking it yourself.
10. Acceptable use
Do not:
- record anyone without their permission, or a child without their parent’s;
- use AfterNote for anything other than running your own teaching;
- try to reach another studio’s data, or probe the Service for ways to;
- resell, sublicense, or provide access to anyone else;
- copy, decompile, or reverse engineer the Service;
- use it to break the law, harass anyone, or infringe anyone’s rights;
- put load on it designed to degrade it for anyone else.
11. Third-party services
AfterNote depends on Google, Recall.ai, Anthropic, and Amazon Web Services. Your use of AfterNote is also subject to Google’s terms for the Google account and calendar you connect. We are not responsible for those services, and if one of them changes or withdraws something, the Service may change with it.
12. Fees
AfterNote is currently offered to invited tutors at no charge. If we introduce charges we will tell you before they apply to you, and you will be free to stop using it instead.
13. Availability, and changes to the Service
We work to keep AfterNote running but do not promise any level of uptime. It depends on the third parties named above and any of them can fail. A recorder can fail to join, a transcript can come back unusable, and a lesson can pass through with nothing to show for it.
Do not rely on AfterNote as your only record of a lesson.
We may change, add, or remove features. If we remove something you materially depend on, we will tell you first where we reasonably can.
14. Ending it
You can stop using AfterNote whenever you like and ask us to delete your studio and its records. We may suspend or close an account that breaches section 7 or section 10, or where the law requires it. If we close your account without cause we will give you reasonable notice.
For 30 days after an account closes you can ask us for a copy of your content. After that we delete it, except anything we are required to keep.
Sections 6, 9, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22 and 23 survive the end of this agreement — in particular the indemnity and the limits on liability, which would be worth nothing if they ended the moment an account closed.
15. Feedback
If you send us an idea or suggestion, we may use it without owing you anything for it. You keep the right to use your own idea however you like.
16. Our intellectual property
The Service, its software, its design, the AfterNote name and the AfterNote mark are ours and stay ours. Nothing here transfers any of it to you beyond the licence in section 5.
17. Indemnity
You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless AfterNote and the people who run it against any third-party claim, and any resulting loss, liability, damages, penalty, or reasonable legal cost, arising from:
- your recording of anyone without the permission section 7 requires, or in breach of any recording, wiretap, or privacy law;
- the student data you put into AfterNote, or a practice plan you chose to send;
- your breach of this agreement or of any law;
- your misuse of the Service.
This does not apply to the extent a claim is caused by our own breach of this agreement, our negligence, or our wilful misconduct. You are indemnifying us for what you do, not for what we do.
We will tell you promptly about any such claim and let you control the defence, except that you may not settle anything that admits fault on our part or requires anything of us without our agreement. We may participate at our own cost.
18. Disclaimers
THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW WE DISCLAIM ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT ANY LESSON WILL BE RECORDED OR TRANSCRIBED, OR THAT ANYTHING IT DRAFTS WILL BE ACCURATE OR COMPLETE.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of this may not apply to you.
19. Limitation of liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, AFTERNOTE IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR EXEMPLARY LOSS, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, LOST GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, EVEN IF WE WERE TOLD IT WAS POSSIBLE.
OUR TOTAL LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR ONE HUNDRED CANADIAN DOLLARS.
Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence. Some jurisdictions do not allow some of these limits, so they may not all apply to you.
20. Disputes
If something goes wrong, email info@afternote.studio first. Most things can be sorted out that way, and we would rather sort them out than argue about them.
If that does not work, any dispute will be decided by the courts named in section 22, and you and we each submit to their jurisdiction.
21. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. Changes get posted here with a new date, and if a change materially affects you we will email you at least 14 days before it takes effect. Continuing to use AfterNote after that means you accept it. If you do not, stop using it and ask us to close your account.
22. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of British Columbia and the laws of Canada that apply there, without regard to conflict of laws rules. The courts of British Columbia have exclusive jurisdiction, and you and we each submit to them.
The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply. If you are in the United States, you are agreeing to bring any dispute in British Columbia rather than where you live.
23. General
- Entire agreement. These terms and the privacy policy are the whole agreement between us about the Service, and replace anything said before.
- Severability. If any part is unenforceable, the rest still stands.
- Waiver. If we do not enforce something straight away, we have not given it up.
- Assignment. You may not assign this agreement without our written consent. We may assign it to a successor of our business.
- Notices. We will write to the email address on your account. You can write to info@afternote.studio. Keep your address current — it is the only way we have of reaching you.
- Force majeure. Neither of us is liable for a failure caused by something genuinely outside our control.
- No partnership. This agreement does not make us partners, or either of us the other’s agent or employee.