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Privacy policy
Guitar With Jimmy is a one-teacher guitar studio run by Jimmy Kershaw. This page explains what information the studio keeps about students and visitors, why, and what you can ask for.
Effective November 15, 2026
What we collect
- Your account: your name and email address, and if you give them, a phone number and your time zone.
- Your lessons: your schedule, attendance and lesson history; Jimmy’s lesson notes and practice assignments; files shared with you or uploaded by you; recordings made during or for your lessons; and messages between you and Jimmy.
- Payments: what you bought, when, and for how much. Card and bank details are entered on Stripe’s secure checkout and stay with Stripe; we never see or store them.
- Reviews and feedback: anything you choose to submit, such as a review or a bug report.
- Technical information: a sign-in cookie that keeps you logged in, a few settings saved in your browser (for example your metronome speed), and the standard request logs kept by our hosting provider for security.
We don’t use advertising or tracking cookies, and we don’t run third-party analytics.
How we use it
- To teach your lessons, prepare your materials and keep track of your progress.
- To schedule, reschedule and remind you about lessons.
- To take payments, keep your lesson balance and keep the studio’s financial records.
- To send you sign-in links and messages about your lessons and account.
- To keep the site secure and fix problems.
Who we share it with
We never sell your information or share it for advertising. We use a small number of service providers to run the studio, and they handle information only to provide their service:
- Cloudflare: hosts this website and stores studio data and files.
- Stripe: processes card and bank payments.
- Resend: delivers sign-in and notification emails.
- Zoom: online lessons take place on Zoom, under Zoom’s own privacy policy.
- Microsoft: Jimmy’s email.
- Anthropic (Claude): an AI assistant Jimmy uses to help prepare lesson materials and run scheduling and billing. It may process student information when Jimmy uses it for those tasks.
Information reaches these providers only electronically, over encrypted connections, and only the part each one needs: Stripe receives what’s needed to take a payment, Resend the email address and message it delivers, and so on. We may also disclose information if the law requires it, for example in response to a court order.
How long we keep it
We keep your information while you’re a student and for a reasonable time afterwards, in case you come back. Payment records are kept as long as tax and accounting rules require. You can ask for your account to be deleted sooner (see below).
Your choices
You can ask to see the information we hold about you, to correct it, to get a copy, or to have it deleted, by emailing [email protected]. We’ll respond within 30 days. Some records, such as payments, may need to be kept for legal reasons even after an account is deleted.
Children
Many students are children. For a student under 13, the account is set up and managed by a parent or guardian, who provides the student’s information and can review, change or delete it at any time by contacting Jimmy. We don’t knowingly collect information from a child under 13 without a parent’s involvement.
Security
The site is served only over encrypted connections (HTTPS). Accounts use emailed sign-in links or passwords stored only in hashed form, and access to student information is limited to the student and Jimmy. Payments go through Stripe, which is certified to the payment card industry’s security standard (PCI DSS).
Changes
If this policy changes, we’ll update the date above, and we’ll tell current students about any significant change.
Contact
Questions about privacy: [email protected].