Right Music Teacher
Effective: September 30, 2026 · Version 2026-09-30
These Terms are an agreement between you and Right Music Teacher LLC, an Idaho limited liability company, which operates the Right Music Teacher service (“Right Music Teacher”, “we”). By creating an account, listing as a teacher, sending an inquiry, or paying an invoice through the service, you agree to them. Section 12 requires most disputes to be resolved by individual arbitration and waives class actions. You can opt out of arbitration within 30 days; Section 12 says how.
1. What Right Music Teacher is
Right Music Teacher is a service of Right Music Teacher LLC. It does two things: it helps students find private music teachers, and it lets teachers send invoices to their own students and collect payment. We charge teachers for listing and, above a free allowance, for invoicing. We charge students nothing.
We are not the teacher. Teachers on Right Music Teacher are independent — not our employees, contractors, or agents. Lessons are arranged directly between a student and a teacher. We do not set lesson rates, supervise instruction, schedule lessons, or guarantee any teacher’s qualifications, conduct, or results. We do not run background checks on teachers.
2. Accounts
You must provide accurate information and keep your password secure. You are responsible for activity under your account. You may sign in with a Google account; Google’s terms govern that account.
Student accounts are held by adults. When you create one you tell us which of two things is true: you are the parent or legal guardian of the student and are creating the account for them, or you are an adult creating the account for your own lessons. A parent or guardian confirms that role and their authority to consent to lessons and charges on the student’s behalf. An adult student gives a date of birth, which we use once to confirm they are 18 or older and do not keep. We rely on what you tell us and do not verify identity or age. A person under 18 may not hold an account. If we learn that an account is held by a minor, we may close it.
The account holder is responsible for all charges on the account, including invoices addressed to the student.
3. For teachers
Listing. Listing is free until the first time a student completes their information and clicks “Connect me!” on your profile. That first connection opens a window of at least seven days in which you must add a payment method to stay listed. We show you the exact date. It is never sooner than seven days, and when seven days would land on the 29th, 30th or 31st it is the 1st of the following month instead, so that your billing date is one that exists in every month. If you do nothing, you are not charged and your listing simply becomes inactive. After that, listing is $10 per month, billed on the same day each month.
Invoicing. Five invoices per calendar month are free. Beyond five, there is a flat $10 charge for that month with no further limit. This is separate from and additional to the listing fee. You are told the price before you pay it — we do not bill for usage in arrears.
Going inactive. You keep full access to invoicing, your students, and your payment history. You are removed from student searches. Re-listing starts billing immediately — or on the 1st of the following month if you re-list on the 29th, 30th or 31st, for the same reason as above — and does not restore the free first connection.
Payments to you. Card payments from students are processed by Stripe and paid to your connected Stripe account. Setting up payouts creates a Stripe account for you through us: Stripe collects your identity and bank details directly, you accept Stripe’s own agreement with you as part of that setup, and Stripe holds that information under its own Privacy Policy. Card numbers and bank credentials never reach us. What we hold about you, including what Stripe reports back to us about your account, is in our Privacy Policy. You are responsible for your own taxes. Payments you arrange directly with a student — cash, check, Venmo, or similar — are between you and that student and are not processed or tracked by us beyond a note you may record on the invoice.
Your profile. Everything on your public profile — including the instruments you teach, your experience, your location, your price, and the age groups you say you teach — is entered by you. We publish it as you enter it and do not verify it. You are responsible for keeping it accurate.
Your records. The student list you keep and the invoices you create are your business records. For each student they contain what you enter about two people: the student (first and last name, and an age if you record one) and the adult you contact about them (name, email address, and their relationship to the student). There is no field for a student’s own email address or phone number. They also contain anything you type into an invoice. They stay in your account after a student closes theirs. You are responsible for entering only what you need and for handling a family’s information lawfully.
Your obligations. Respond to student inquiries in a reasonable time; hold any license or certification your jurisdiction requires; invoice accurately; and comply with law in your dealings with students and their families.
4. For students and parents
Finding a teacher. Match scores are a suggestion based on the preferences you enter. They are not a rating of a teacher’s competence and not a guarantee of fit. Profile information, including the age groups a teacher lists, is self-reported by the teacher and not checked by us.
Paying invoices. Invoices come from your teacher, not from us. Card payments are processed by Stripe. You do not need an account to pay an invoice. Questions about an amount go to your teacher, whose reply-to address is on every invoice.
Refunds. Lesson refunds are between you and your teacher. We do not hold your money and cannot issue a refund on a teacher’s behalf.
5. Text messages
Optional throughout. See the Privacy Policy for what we send and how often. Reply STOP to cancel at any time. Consent to texts is never required to use the service or to pay an invoice. Message and data rates may apply. If the student is under 18, the mobile number and the consent must be the parent or guardian’s.
6. Reviews
Only a student who has connected with a teacher may review that teacher, one review per teacher. We review submissions before they appear publicly. We decline a review only if it is not from a student who connected with that teacher, is not an honest account of their own experience, is abusive or discriminatory, is off topic, or identifies a third party. We do not decline a review because it is critical of a teacher, or because of the rating it gives. Reviews must be your honest experience and must not include anything unlawful, harassing, or personally identifying about a third party.
7. Acceptable use
Don’t use the service to break the law, impersonate anyone, harass anyone, scrape or copy our data, interfere with the service’s operation, or list a teacher profile you are not entitled to list.
8. Fees and taxes
Fees are stated above and in your account. We may change them with at least 30 days’ notice by email to the address on your account. You are responsible for taxes on your own income.
9. Intellectual property
We own the service. You own what you upload — your profile, bio, photograph, and reviews — and you grant us permission to display it as part of operating the service.
10. Disclaimers and limitation of liability
Please read this section carefully. It limits what Right Music Teacher is responsible for.
We are a marketplace, not a music school. WE DO NOT EMPLOY TEACHERS, DO NOT SUPERVISE OR ATTEND LESSONS, DO NOT CONTROL WHERE OR HOW LESSONS HAPPEN, AND DO NOT GUARANTEE ANY LESSON, TEACHER, STUDENT, OUTCOME, OR PAYMENT. TEACHER PROFILE INFORMATION — INCLUDING QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, LOCATION, PRICE, AND THE AGE GROUPS A TEACHER SAYS THEY TEACH — IS SELF-REPORTED BY THE TEACHER AND IS NOT VERIFIED BY US. WE DO NOT RUN BACKGROUND CHECKS. Deciding whether a teacher is suitable for a student, including a child, is your decision.
The service is provided as is. THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR SECURE, OR THAT MATCH SCORES OR SEARCH RESULTS WILL BE ACCURATE OR SUITABLE.
Disputes about lessons are between student and teacher. Claims about lesson quality, conduct during a lesson, scheduling, refunds, or amounts owed are between the student (or the account holder) and the teacher. We are not a party to them.
Limitation of liability. EXCEPT FOR THE CLAIMS LISTED UNDER “WHAT THESE LIMITS DO NOT COVER” BELOW, AND TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, RIGHT MUSIC TEACHER LLC AND ITS OWNERS AND STAFF ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, OR LOSS OF GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR ANY LESSON, TEACHER, OR STUDENT FOUND THROUGH IT, HOWEVER CAUSED AND UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF THE FEES YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE OR ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100).
What these limits do not cover. The exclusions and limits in this section do not apply to:
- any claim for death or personal injury, including a claim brought by or on behalf of a person who was under 18 at the time of the events the claim is about;
- any claim for gross negligence, willful misconduct, or fraud;
- any consumer-protection right that the law of the state where you live gives you and does not let you waive;
- anything else that cannot be limited by the law that applies to you.
Where a state does not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of certain damages, the exclusions and limits above apply only to the extent that state’s law allows. Claims by or on behalf of a person under 18 are also outside the arbitration agreement in Section 12.
11. Termination
You may close your account at any time by emailing info@gemstatemusic.com from the address on the account. We will delete your login and your account record within 30 days. Records that are not yours are not deleted with it: a teacher’s invoices and student list, payment records held by Stripe, and messages already sent. The Privacy Policy describes this in detail. We may suspend or terminate an account that breaches these Terms or creates risk for other users. Invoices already owed remain owed.
12. Disputes, arbitration, and governing law
Please read this section carefully. It affects how disputes between you and Right Music Teacher are resolved.
Governing law. These Terms and any dispute between you and Right Music Teacher LLC are governed by the laws of the State of Idaho and the Federal Arbitration Act, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. If you live in another state, nothing in these Terms takes away consumer-protection rights that the law of the state where you live gives you and does not let you waive; those rights apply notwithstanding the choice of Idaho law.
Talk to us first. Before starting arbitration or a court case, you agree to email us at info@gemstatemusic.com with your name, the email on your account, and a description of the problem and what you want, and to give us 30 days to resolve it. We will do the same before bringing a claim against you.
Arbitration. IF A DISPUTE IS NOT RESOLVED WITHIN THOSE 30 DAYS, YOU AND RIGHT MUSIC TEACHER LLC AGREE THAT IT WILL BE RESOLVED BY BINDING INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION RATHER THAN IN COURT, EXCEPT AS THIS SECTION SAYS OTHERWISE. This covers any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the service, whether based in contract, tort, statute, or anything else, including disputes about whether this section applies. The arbitration will be run by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, before one arbitrator. The arbitrator, not a court, decides whether a claim is covered by this section, except that only a court may decide whether the class-action waiver below is enforceable. The arbitrator can award the same remedies a court could award to you individually. The arbitration will be held in the county where you live, or by phone or video if you prefer. For a claim of $10,000 or less, we will pay the arbitration filing and arbitrator fees, unless the arbitrator finds the claim was brought for an improper purpose. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court with jurisdiction.
What is not covered. This section does not apply to:
- any claim brought by or on behalf of a person who was under 18 at the time of the events the claim is about;
- a claim that qualifies for small-claims court, which either of us may bring there instead, so long as it stays there and stays individual.
No class actions. YOU AND RIGHT MUSIC TEACHER LLC AGREE THAT EACH OF US MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY CLASS, COLLECTIVE, CONSOLIDATED, OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person’s claims or preside over any form of class or representative proceeding. If a court decides that this waiver cannot be enforced for a particular claim, then that claim, and only that claim, will be heard in court under “If a claim goes to court” below, and this section still applies to every other claim.
Your right to opt out. You can reject this arbitration agreement by emailing info@gemstatemusic.com with “Arbitration opt-out” in the subject line, your name, and the email on your account, within 30 days after you first accept these Terms (or, if you accepted an earlier version, within 30 days after the effective date above). Opting out does not affect any other part of these Terms and does not affect your use of the service. If we change this section in the future, the change applies only to disputes that arise after the change, and you can opt out of the change the same way within 30 days after we tell you about it.
If a claim goes to court. If a claim is not covered by this section, or you have opted out, or a court has found this section unenforceable for the claim, the claim will be brought, at your election, either in the United States District Court for the district where you live or in the state or federal courts located in Ada County, Idaho, and you and we consent to the personal jurisdiction of the court you choose.
13. Changes
We will post changes here and update the effective date and version at the top. When the Terms change, we will ask you to accept the new Terms the next time you sign in, before you can continue using your account — whether you are a teacher or a student account holder. Your acceptance, and the version you accepted, is recorded on your account. If you do not want to accept, do not sign in; you can close your account at any time (Section 11). Changes to Section 12 are handled as that section says.
14. Contact
Right Music Teacher LLC