Live Grand
designed for realistic practice
and performance preparation
The controller responsible for the processing of personal data on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") is:
Dominik Schulte, trading as Musical Arts SchoolFor general enquiries and Product support, you may also use the contact form provided on this website.
We process personal data only where this is necessary to operate and secure this website, provide our Products and services, manage user accounts and Product-related services, communicate with users, provide customer support, comply with legal obligations, pursue legitimate interests, or where you have given us your consent.
Depending on how you use our website and services, the categories of personal data we may process include:
Depending on the particular processing activity, we process personal data on one or more of the following legal bases:
Where access to or storage of information on your device requires consent under applicable law, such technologies are used only after the required consent has been obtained, unless an applicable statutory exception applies.
This website is hosted using infrastructure provided by Contabo GmbH, Aschauer Straße 32a, 81549 Munich, Germany.
Where Contabo processes personal data on our behalf in connection with the hosting infrastructure, the processing is governed by a Data Processing Agreement pursuant to Article 28 GDPR.
Contabo provides its Data Processing Agreement to customers through the Contabo Customer Control Panel.
Further information: Contabo – Data Processing Agreement Information and Contabo Privacy Policy .
When you access this website, technical information is automatically transmitted by your browser to the server on which the website is hosted.
This information may include:
These data are processed for the purpose of providing the website, ensuring its stability and security, detecting technical problems, and preventing or investigating misuse or attacks.
The legal basis is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is the secure, reliable, and efficient operation of this website.
Server log data are deleted or anonymised when they are no longer required for these purposes, unless longer storage is necessary for the investigation of a security incident, the establishment or defence of legal claims, or compliance with a legal obligation.
Users may create an account on our website. When you register an account, we process the information required to create and manage that account.
Depending on the functionality provided, this may include your name, email address, login credentials, account information, registered Products, license information, and other information associated with your account.
We process these data for the purpose of providing and administering your user account and the services associated with it. The legal basis is Article 6(1)(b) GDPR.
For security purposes, we may also process the IP address and time of registration, login attempts, and other security-relevant account activity. The legal basis is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is protecting user accounts and our systems against unauthorised access, misuse, and fraud.
Account data are generally retained for as long as your account remains active and thereafter only for as long as necessary to fulfil legal, contractual, security, or documentation requirements.
In connection with our software Products, we may process information relating to Product ownership, registration, licensing, serial numbers, activation, Product versions, and associated user accounts.
We use these data to provide licensed Products and related services, verify legitimate Product ownership, administer licenses, provide Product support, prevent misuse and unauthorised distribution, and manage license transfers, refunds, or license revocations where applicable.
The legal basis is Article 6(1)(b) GDPR where processing is necessary to provide the licensed Product or related services. Where processing is necessary to protect our Products, licensing systems, or legal rights against misuse or fraud, the legal basis may also be Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.
Products purchased through the purchase links and checkout provided on this website are sold and fulfilled by FastSpring, our authorised reseller and Merchant of Record.
FastSpring processes personal data necessary to conduct the purchase transaction, including payment processing, tax handling, invoicing, fraud prevention, refunds, chargebacks, and compliance with applicable legal obligations.
Depending on the transaction and the services involved, FastSpring may process information such as your name, email address, billing address, country, order information, payment-related information, IP address, tax information, and technical information.
FastSpring may provide us with information relating to purchases of our Products. Depending on the circumstances, this may include information such as your name, email address, order identifier, purchased Product, transaction status, purchase date, refund status, and other order-related information.
We may use information received in connection with a FastSpring transaction to fulfil and administer your Product license, provide customer support, maintain records relating to purchases and licenses, prevent fraud and misuse, handle refunds or license revocations, and comply with legal obligations.
The applicable legal bases may include Article 6(1)(b) GDPR, Article 6(1)(c) GDPR, and Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, depending on the particular processing activity.
FastSpring is responsible for processing it carries out for its own purposes as Merchant of Record. Where FastSpring processes purchaser personal information in connection with services provided to us, the relationship is also governed by FastSpring's Data Processing Agreement for Vendors where applicable.
Further information: FastSpring Data Processing Agreement for Vendors .
Our Products may also be available through Native Instruments. Native Instruments processes personal data in connection with its own online store, customer accounts, Product registration, Native Access, activation, and related services in accordance with its own privacy policy.
Where you purchase, register, or activate one of our Products through Native Instruments, Native Instruments may provide us with information relating to your registration or Product license.
Depending on the applicable process and information made available to us, this may include your name, email address, Product information, serial number, registration information, and other information necessary to identify or administer your Product license.
We may process such information for the purpose of administering the Product license, verifying Product ownership, providing support, maintaining Product and license records, preventing misuse, and fulfilling our obligations relating to the Product.
The applicable legal basis is generally Article 6(1)(b) GDPR and, where necessary for fraud prevention, security, or the establishment and defence of legal claims, Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.
Native Instruments remains responsible for processing carried out for its own purposes.
Further information: Native Instruments Privacy Policy .
If you contact us through our contact form, by email, or through another communication channel, we process the information you provide in order to respond to and manage your enquiry.
This may include your name, email address, the contents of your message, information about the Product concerned, technical information you provide for troubleshooting, and any other information you voluntarily submit.
Where your enquiry relates to an existing or prospective contractual relationship, the legal basis is Article 6(1)(b) GDPR. For other enquiries, processing is based on our legitimate interest in responding to communications and administering our business pursuant to Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.
Information contained in enquiries is retained only for as long as necessary to process the enquiry and for any subsequent period required for legal, contractual, security, or documentation purposes.
We use email to communicate with users in connection with enquiries, user accounts, Product registrations, licenses, technical support, security matters, and other Product-related or contractual matters.
Email messages generated by our systems are processed through our own mail server infrastructure using Postfix.
For the external delivery of outgoing email, our mail server uses SMTP relay services provided by STRATO GmbH, Otto-Ostrowski-Straße 7, 10249 Berlin, Germany.
As part of the technical transmission of an email, STRATO may process information necessary to deliver the message. Depending on the individual email, this may include sender and recipient email addresses, message routing information, timestamps, technical transmission data, IP-related information, and the contents of the email where technically required for transmission.
Where STRATO processes personal data on our behalf, such processing is governed by a Data Processing Agreement pursuant to Article 28 GDPR.
Further information: STRATO Data Processing Agreement and STRATO Privacy Policy .
Transactional and service-related messages that are necessary for the provision of our Products or services are processed on the basis of Article 6(1)(b) GDPR or, where applicable, Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.
Where we send marketing communications by email, we do so only where permitted by applicable law and, where required, on the basis of your consent pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) GDPR.
This website uses cookies and may use similar technologies such as local storage, pixels, tags, or other identifiers.
Some of these technologies are technically necessary to provide the website and functions expressly requested by you. These may include, for example, technologies required for security, session management, login functionality, and storing your privacy preferences.
Other technologies are used for analytics, advertising, conversion measurement, or embedded third-party content. Where consent is required by applicable law, these technologies are not activated until you have given the corresponding consent.
When you first visit our website, our consent management interface is displayed. You can use it to decide whether optional categories of cookies and other technologies may be used.
Your consent choices are stored so that we can respect and document your privacy preferences during subsequent visits.
You may change or withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future using the privacy or cookie settings available on this website.
Subject to your consent, we use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, to analyse how visitors use our website and to improve its content, performance, and usability.
Google Analytics may process information such as pages viewed, interactions with the website, approximate location, device and browser information, referring sources, online identifiers, and IP-related information.
Google Analytics is activated only after you have given the required consent through our consent management system.
The legal basis for our processing is your consent pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) GDPR and the applicable provisions governing the storage of or access to information on your device.
You may withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future through the privacy or cookie settings provided on this website.
Google may process data outside the European Economic Area. Where required, such transfers are based on an applicable mechanism under Chapter V of the GDPR.
Further information: Google Privacy Policy .
Subject to your consent, we use Google Ads and related conversion measurement technologies to measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.
These services may process information about your interactions with advertisements and our website, including online identifiers, cookie data, device and browser information, referring sources, pages visited, and information indicating whether an advertising interaction resulted in a particular action on our website.
Google Ads and associated advertising or conversion technologies requiring consent are activated only after you have given the corresponding consent through our consent management system.
The legal basis for our processing is your consent pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) GDPR and the applicable provisions governing the storage of or access to information on your device.
You may withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future through the privacy or cookie settings provided on this website.
Google may process data outside the European Economic Area. Where required, such transfers are based on an applicable mechanism under Chapter V of the GDPR.
Further information: How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services .
This website uses fonts provided by Google Fonts.
The font files are hosted locally on our own server and are delivered directly from our website. No connection to Google is established merely for the purpose of loading these locally hosted font files.
Our website contains embedded videos provided through YouTube, a service operated by Google.
Embedded YouTube content is blocked until you have given the required consent. Before consent is given, the YouTube video itself is not loaded from Google's servers.
If you consent to and load a YouTube video, information about your visit may be transmitted to Google. This may include your IP address, device and browser information, information about the page on which the video is embedded, and information about your interaction with the video.
If you are logged into a Google account, Google may associate information about your interaction with that account.
The legal basis for our processing is your consent pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) GDPR and the applicable provisions governing the storage of or access to information on your device.
You may withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future through the privacy or cookie settings provided on this website.
Further information: Google Privacy Policy .
Our website contains links to our presence on Instagram.
These links are implemented as ordinary external links. Merely displaying an Instagram link on our website does not establish a connection between your browser and Instagram.
If you follow an Instagram link, you leave our website and establish a connection with Instagram. The processing of personal data that occurs after following the link is subject to the privacy practices and terms of the operator of Instagram.
If you communicate with us through Instagram, we may process the information contained in your communication for the purpose of responding to and managing your enquiry.
This website contains affiliate links to products offered by Amazon and Thomann.
We use these links to recommend hardware and other products that may be useful in connection with our Products.
Affiliate links contain an identifier that allows the respective provider to determine that a visitor was referred from our website. If you follow an affiliate link and subsequently make a qualifying purchase, we may receive a commission from the respective provider. This does not increase the price you pay for the product.
The affiliate links on our website are implemented as ordinary external links. Merely viewing a page on our website that contains such a link does not, by itself, establish a connection with Amazon or Thomann, provided that no external affiliate widgets, tracking scripts, pixels, images, or other resources from those providers are embedded on the page.
When you click an affiliate link, you leave our website and establish a connection with the respective provider. The affiliate identifier contained in the link is transmitted to that provider together with information normally transmitted when accessing an external website, such as your IP address, browser information, referring information, and other technical request data.
The respective provider may use cookies, server-side tracking, or other technologies to attribute purchases or other actions to the affiliate referral. The subsequent processing of personal data is carried out by the respective provider in accordance with its own privacy policy and applicable terms.
We participate in the Amazon Associates Program. Amazon affiliate links contain our assigned affiliate identifier so that qualifying purchases may be attributed to referrals from our website.
As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.
Further information about Amazon's processing of personal data is available in Amazon's privacy information.
We participate in the Thomann Affiliate Program. Thomann affiliate links contain a partner identifier that allows Thomann to attribute referrals and qualifying purchases to our website.
The respective tracking and attribution technologies are operated by Thomann after you follow the affiliate link. Further information about the processing of personal data is available in Thomann's privacy information.
In addition to the services specifically described in this Privacy Policy, our website may contain links to third-party websites or services.
When you follow an external link, the respective third-party provider is responsible for the processing of personal data on its website or service in accordance with its own privacy policy.
Where third-party content is technically embedded in our website and its loading requires consent under applicable law, the content is not loaded until the required consent has been obtained.
We process personal data where necessary for the administration of our business, accounting, tax compliance, record keeping, and compliance with other legal obligations.
Such data may include transaction records, invoices, correspondence, contractual information, license information, and other business records.
The legal basis is Article 6(1)(c) GDPR where processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation. Where processing is necessary for internal administration or the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims, Article 6(1)(f) GDPR may also apply.
Where required, information may be disclosed to tax authorities, professional advisers, accountants, auditors, legal advisers, or other competent authorities.
We use external service providers and business partners where necessary to operate our website, communicate with users, distribute our Products, administer licenses, and conduct our business.
Relevant recipients and service providers may include in particular:
Personal data are disclosed to such recipients only where this is necessary for the relevant purpose and where there is an appropriate legal basis.
Where a provider processes personal data on our behalf as a processor, an appropriate Data Processing Agreement pursuant to Article 28 GDPR is used where required.
Some service providers used in connection with this website or our Products may process personal data outside the European Union or the European Economic Area.
Where personal data are transferred to a country outside the European Economic Area, the transfer is made on the basis of an applicable mechanism under Chapter V of the GDPR.
Depending on the recipient and destination country, this may include an adequacy decision by the European Commission, participation in an applicable recognised data protection framework, Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission together with any required supplementary measures, or another legally recognised transfer mechanism.
We retain personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes for which they were collected, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
The applicable retention period depends on the type of data and the purpose of processing. In particular, contractual, accounting, and tax records may be retained for the periods required under applicable commercial and tax law.
When personal data are no longer required and no legal basis for continued retention exists, they are deleted or anonymised.
We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure, or unauthorised access.
These measures are selected taking into account the state of the art, implementation costs, the nature, scope, context, and purposes of processing, and the risks to the rights and freedoms of individuals.
Subject to the requirements and limitations provided by applicable data protection law, you may have the following rights:
Where processing is based on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, you have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you in accordance with Article 21 GDPR.
Where personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to processing for such marketing.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of your personal data infringes applicable data protection law.
The supervisory authority responsible for our place of establishment is:
State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information
North Rhine-Westphalia
(Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit
Nordrhein-Westfalen – LDI NRW)
Where processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time with effect for the future.
You can change or withdraw consent relating to Google Analytics, Google Ads, YouTube, cookies, and other optional technologies through the privacy or cookie settings provided on this website.
Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out on the basis of consent before its withdrawal.
We may update this Privacy Policy where necessary to reflect changes in our website, Products, services, data processing activities, service providers, or applicable law.
The current version of this Privacy Policy is available on this website. The date of the latest revision is stated at the beginning of this Privacy Policy.
Last updated: August 2026