Rules of Engagement — Virtual Tikkun

Virtual Tikkun is a place to practice reading Torah from your community's own scroll, on your own and with a teacher. These are the rules we ask everyone to keep, and what you can expect from us in return. Creating an account means you agree to them. How we handle your information is in our Privacy Policy.

Your account

An account is for one person. Use your own name; your teacher and your community see it on the readings you commit to.
Keep your password to yourself. What happens under your account is your responsibility, so tell us if you think someone else has used it.
A student under 13 needs a parent, guardian, teacher or community to set up the account, as our Privacy Policy explains.

Your community

When you commit to a reading, your name and the reading appear on your community's calendar. Recordings you choose to make public can be heard by your community, and messages you send in the community chat are seen by everyone in it. A teacher who is helping you sees your progress on the readings you share.

Treat the community the way you would treat people in the sanctuary. No harassment, no insults, nothing you would not say in front of the rabbi.
Keep the chat about Torah reading and the life of the community.
A community's administrators may take a reading off the calendar. Anyone who breaks these rules may be removed from a community, or from Virtual Tikkun.

The Torah scrolls

The scroll images in Virtual Tikkun belong to the communities that shared them with us. They are here for you to practice from. Please do not copy, download, publish or pass them on outside the app. The vowelled and cantillated text comes from Sefaria under its licence.

Your recordings and notes

What you record and write is yours. We keep it so you can play it back and share it with your teacher. A recording is private unless you make it public, and you can delete a recording, or your whole account, at any time from Settings. When you delete your account, your private recordings and notes go with it; a recording you shared with your community stays with the community.

Using the app

Virtual Tikkun is for your own practice and teaching, not for resale or commercial use.
Do not upload anything you do not have the right to share, and nothing unrelated to Torah reading.
Do not scrape the app, access it with automated tools, or try to get around what it allows.

Your free trial and subscription

A new account starts with a 30-day free trial. No payment details are needed for it, and we will be in touch before it ends. After the trial, keeping your account active takes a subscription, managed on the website. You can cancel at any time; your access runs to the end of the period you have paid for.

What you can expect from us

We will keep Virtual Tikkun running as well as we can, handle your information as our Privacy Policy says, and tell you about changes that affect you. The app is offered as it is: we cannot promise it will always be available or free of mistakes, and we are not responsible for a loss that comes from relying on it. If we ever close an account for breaking these rules, we will say why.

Changes to these rules

When we change these rules, we update the date at the top of this page. If a change matters to how you use Virtual Tikkun, we will ask you to agree to it again the next time you sign in.

Contact

Questions about these rules go to support@virtualtikkun.com, the same inbox Send Feedback reaches.