Terms of use

These are the terms on which you may use the Riprova app, on Android and in a browser, and the account you make in it. They do not cover this website's waitlist, which is described in the privacy notice. What we do with your data is in the app privacy notice.

Who runs Riprova and who it is for

Riprova is run by Jon Rottenbury, 25 Springbank Road, Birmingham B15 2HF, United Kingdom, and you can write to hello@ritornomusic.app about anything here. It is a practice diary and portfolio for musicians of any age, and for the teachers and guardians who support them.

If you are under 18, please read these terms with a parent or guardian. A child under 13, or anyone who has not given a date of birth, cannot use the app until a parent or guardian has been linked and has confirmed. Someone aged 13 to 17 can keep their own diary but needs a confirmed guardian before a teacher can be linked. These are rules of the app, and the app enforces them.

This is a test

Riprova is in testing. Sign-up is limited to people we have invited, it is free, and it may change, be interrupted or lose features. Keep a copy of anything you cannot afford to lose. We will tell you before the test ends or before we begin to charge anything, and you will not be charged unless you agree.

What you may and may not do

You may use the app for your own music practice, or, as a teacher or guardian, to support the people who have linked to you. You must not:

• give false details, including a false date of birth or role;
• share your password, or use someone else's account without their permission;
• upload or write anything unlawful, abusive or that infringes someone else's rights;
• try to get round the app's safeguards, such as the guardian link or a teacher's DBS check, or to contact a young person outside the ways the app provides;
• try to break, overload or gain access to parts of the service that are not yours, or to read other people's data.

There is no private chat between a teacher and a student. A teacher's comment is a note on one practice entry or recording, and the only conversation is between a teacher and a guardian. Comments and those messages cannot be edited or deleted by anyone, including us; see the app privacy notice.

A teacher must have a current Enhanced DBS check, verified by us, before linking to a student or commenting.

Your content

What you put in the app, such as your diary, goals, repertoire and recordings, stays yours. You give us only the permission we need to run the service for you: to store it, to sync it between your devices, and to show it to the teachers and guardians you choose to share it with. We do not use it for anything else, and the permission ends when the content is deleted, except for the records described in the app privacy notice that can never be deleted.

Music and recordings in copyright

You are responsible for the rights in what you add. Most printed music, and most recordings of it, are in copyright. Keep your recordings and any scans of sheet music to your own practice, and do not upload or share anything you have no right to share. Recordings you make are private to you until you share them.

Encryption and a lost key

Recordings are encrypted on your device before they are uploaded, and only your keys can open them. Your keys are kept in a form that only your password or your recovery code can unlock. This means we cannot read your recordings, and we cannot recover them for you. If you lose both your password and your recovery code, your recordings cannot be opened again by you, by us or by anyone else. Keep your recovery code somewhere safe.

Suspension and ending

You can stop using the app at any time. We have not yet built a button to delete an account, so for now write to us and we will delete it by hand, apart from the records the app privacy notice says are kept. We may suspend or close an account, or stop a feature, if these terms are broken, if it is needed to protect someone, or if the law requires it. We will say why unless the law or a person's safety stops us.

Our responsibility to you

We will provide the service with reasonable care and skill. Because it is a free test, it is provided as it is, and we do not promise it will be uninterrupted or free of faults. We are not liable for loss that was not a foreseeable result of our breach, or for loss of data you could have guarded against by keeping a copy. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or your legal rights as a consumer.

Changes to these terms

If we change these terms in a way that matters, we will say so in the app and ask you to accept the new terms the next time you sign in. If you do not accept, you can stop using the app and ask us to delete your account.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales can decide any dispute, but if you live in Scotland or Northern Ireland you can also use the courts there. To complain, see the complaints and requests page.

Version 2026-10-07. Last updated 7 October 2026.