Studio activation disclosure
This disclosure applies to one thing: asking Praxis Percussion to change a private studio or independent teaching practice from practice records to real student records. You accept it as part of that request, before any review begins and long before anything is activated.
Read all five points. They are the parts of this arrangement that are genuinely unsettled or genuinely permanent, and none of them is improved by being discovered later.
Accepting this disclosure does not activate anything. Your workspace keeps accepting practice records only. Activation is a separate, reviewed decision that Praxis makes by hand, and it may not happen.
1. No lawyer has cleared this pilot for your situation
Praxis has researched the applicable child-privacy questions and is pursuing qualified review, including COPPA Safe Harbor scoping. That review has not happened yet. No lawyer and no Safe Harbor program has confirmed that a paid service holding structured records about named minors — entered by an adult teacher, never by the child — falls outside COPPA.
That open question is the reason this pilot stops at students age 13 or older. Praxis's position is the one comparable products in this field take: records a teacher keeps about their own student are the teacher's records, held by Praxis on their behalf. That is a position, not a ruling. Praxis is asking counsel to check it rather than treating it as settled, and is telling you which of those two it is.
2. Activation here is an owner-reviewed, risk-accepted pilot, not a cleared feature
Nothing about this is a switch you flip. Praxis's owner reads each request, makes a reasoned decision, and knowingly accepts the remaining legal, operational, security, and reputational risk for a bounded pilot. A checkbox is never activation.
Because it is a risk acceptance rather than a clearance, it can change. Praxis reviews this policy no later than 90 days after the first activation under it, and a written legal conclusion that conflicts with it suspends new activations until Praxis resolves the conflict in writing. Your studio may be narrowed, paused, or asked to stop entering new records if that happens.
3. Nobody at Praxis routinely looks at student records, and the control that would guarantee it is not built
Praxis's policy is not to inspect student records in the ordinary course of running the service. That policy is real and it is followed.
What does not exist yet is the technical control that would make it independently verifiable: a delegated, purpose-bound, expiring support-access mechanism that scopes exceptional access to one approved reason, ends it automatically, and records it where you can see it. Until that is built, this boundary holds because the operator follows it, not because the software makes anything else impossible.
You are being told this because it is the difference between a promise and a guarantee, and you are entitled to know which one you are getting.
4. Records for students under 13 — or of unknown age — are prohibited
Enter a record only for a student you affirmatively know to be 13 or older. A student under 13, or whose age you do not know, must stay out of Praxis entirely. There is no partial version of this rule and no exception for a student who is nearly 13.
Praxis cannot independently know a student's age, so this is a commitment you make and Praxis reviews rather than something the software can check. If a prohibited record is entered, or you learn that a student you have already entered is under 13, stop entering information and tell Praxis immediately at taylor@backwerdrimshot.com.
Separately, and before any named record for a minor is created, Praxis obtains direct authorization from that student's parent or legal guardian. That authorization is a pilot safeguard chosen by Praxis. It is not COPPA verifiable parental consent, and neither this disclosure nor anything you agree to here is parental consent.
5. Activation is one-way
Once your workspace holds real student records, it does not go back. There is no setting that returns it to practice-data mode, and no support request that can do it either. Praxis has deliberately built no path in that direction.
That is a safety property rather than a limitation. Several other protections depend on being able to ask "has this workspace ever held real data?" — a workspace that could round-trip to practice mode could be treated as though it never had, which is precisely how real records end up inside a process designed for fictional ones.
Removing real records after activation therefore means the reviewed export and deletion process, not a toggle. You can always ask for that process, and you can ask for a copy of your records at any time.
What Praxis records when you accept
Accepting this disclosure writes an acknowledgement naming you, your organization, the moment you accepted, and the exact version of this document and of the other documents it was accepted alongside. Those versions are identified by a digest of the published text, so what you agreed to can be reproduced word for word later rather than inferred from a date.
The acknowledgement contains no student information.
What this document is not
- It is not legal advice, and it is not a legal opinion clearing this pilot.
- It is not parental consent, and not COPPA verifiable parental consent.
- It is not a substitute for the technical support-access control described in point 3. It is a condition of activation, disclosed while that control does not exist.
- It does not replace the terms of use or the privacy notice, which continue to apply in full.
Questions
Ask before you accept, not after. taylor@backwerdrimshot.com