Instructor & Tutor Agreement

This Agreement applies to you if you apply to teach, publish a course, or deliver tutoring on Education Labs AI. It is in addition to our Terms of Service, which continues to apply to you as a user. Where the two conflict in relation to your instructor activities, this Agreement prevails.

By submitting an instructor application or publishing content, you accept this Agreement. If you are under 18, you may not be an instructor.

You are an independent contractor, not an employee, worker, partner, agent or joint venturer of Education Labs AI. Nothing in this Agreement creates an employment relationship.

• You decide how and when you prepare and deliver your teaching, subject to the standards in this Agreement and any availability you publish.
• You are solely responsible for your own income tax, self-employment tax, social contributions, insurance and any business registration required where you live.
• You receive no salary, holiday pay, sick pay, pension or other employment benefit from us.
• You may teach elsewhere. This Agreement is non-exclusive.
• You must not hold yourself out as authorised to bind or represent us.

Where required, we may ask you to complete a tax form (for example a W-9 or W-8BEN) before payouts begin, and we may report payments to tax authorities as the law requires.

Instructor accounts require approval. By applying you represent that everything in your application and profile — your name, qualifications, experience, subject expertise and credentials — is true and current, and you agree to update it if it changes.

You must hold every qualification, licence, certification and clearance you claim or that the law of your location requires for teaching, including any background check or clearance required to work with people under 18. You must tell us promptly if any of these lapse, are refused or are revoked, or if you become subject to any investigation, restriction or barring decision relevant to working with children.

Approval is at our discretion, is not an endorsement, and may be withdrawn. We may verify your claims and, where lawful, require evidence.

• You keep ownership. You retain all intellectual property rights in the course material you create (“Instructor Content”).
• Licence to us. You grant Education Labs AI a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable licence to host, store, encode, reformat, reproduce, publicly display, publicly perform, distribute and make available your Instructor Content through the Services, and to use extracts, your name, image and profile for marketing and promoting the Services and your courses.
• Duration. The licence lasts while your content is published, and continues after removal only to the extent needed to (a) provide continued access to learners who purchased the content before removal, (b) keep backups, and (c) meet legal obligations.
• Learner access after withdrawal. If you unpublish a course, learners who already bought it keep access for at least 12 months, unless we agree otherwise or removal is required by law or a rights complaint.

You represent and warrant, for all Instructor Content, that:

• you own it, or hold all rights and licences necessary to grant the licence above;
• it does not infringe any copyright, trademark, database right, privacy, publicity or other right;
• you have permission for every third-party element you include — images, diagrams, audio, video, past-paper extracts, textbook excerpts and exam-board material, which are usually protected by copyright;
• it is accurate to the best of your professional knowledge and appropriate for the audience, including minors;
• it complies with our Acceptable Use Policy and with all applicable law;
• it does not contain confidential, embargoed or leaked assessment material.

We may remove or disable content that we reasonably believe breaches these warranties, and will tell you why. Repeat infringement leads to termination — see our Copyright & DMCA Policy.

• Teach only subjects you are genuinely competent to teach, and describe courses accurately, including level, syllabus coverage and what is and is not included.
• Deliver booked sessions punctually, from a quiet and appropriate environment, using equipment adequate for clear audio and video.
• Respond to reasonable learner questions within a reasonable time.
• Keep all interaction professional, respectful and free of discrimination or harassment.
• Do not solicit payment outside the platform, or direct learners to competing services.
• Do not manipulate ratings, post or solicit fake reviews, or offer incentives for positive reviews.
• Do not help any learner cheat, complete assessed work for them, or breach the rules of an awarding body.

You receive limited learner data solely to deliver teaching and support. You must use it only for that purpose; must not export, retain, sell or use it for your own marketing or any other service; must keep it confidential and secure; must delete it when it is no longer needed or when we ask; and must tell us immediately at support@educationlabsai.com if it is lost or disclosed. In data-protection terms you act on our documented instructions in respect of that data, and you must cooperate with us in responding to any learner request or regulator enquiry.

• Pricing. Course and session prices are set on the platform in USD. We may run promotions or discounts; where a sale is made at a promotional price, earnings are calculated on the amount actually paid by the learner.
• We collect payment. We (through our payment provider) collect learner payments. Your earnings dashboard reports amounts attributable to your courses and sessions.
• Revenue share. The share payable to you, and any platform fee or payment processing deduction, is the rate communicated to you in writing or shown in your instructor dashboard at the time of the relevant sale. Amounts displayed as gross are the amounts learners paid, before any applicable deduction. We will give you at least 30 days’ written notice before changing the rate, and the change will not apply retrospectively to sales already made.
• Payout details. You must maintain a valid payout account. We are not responsible for payments delayed or lost because your payout details are missing, wrong or unverified.
• Refunds and chargebacks. Where a learner is refunded under our Refund & Cancellation Policy, or a payment is charged back, the corresponding amount is reversed from your earnings, and may be offset against future earnings or reclaimed if already paid.
• Withholding. We may withhold or delay a payout while investigating suspected fraud, a rights complaint, a safeguarding concern or a material breach of this Agreement, and will tell you the reason.
• Taxes. Amounts payable to you may be subject to withholding where the law requires. You are responsible for your own tax obligations.

Keep your published availability accurate. If you must cancel a booked session, give the learner at least 24 hours’ notice wherever possible and offer a reschedule. Late cancellations and no-shows by you entitle the learner to a full refund at your cost, and a pattern of them may lead to restricted availability, delisting or termination.

You may receive non-public information about our business, systems, pricing or roadmap. You must keep it confidential, use it only to perform this Agreement, and not disclose it without our written consent. This obligation survives termination and continues for as long as the information remains confidential. It does not apply to information that is public through no fault of yours, that you already lawfully held, or that you are legally compelled to disclose — in which case tell us first where lawful.

You will indemnify and hold harmless Education Labs AI and its personnel against any claim, liability, damage, loss or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your Instructor Content, your teaching, your breach of this Agreement or of any law, or any claim that you are or were an employee rather than an independent contractor.

Our total aggregate liability to you under or in connection with this Agreement will not exceed the total earnings we paid or owed to you in the twelve (12) months before the event giving rise to the claim. We are not liable for lost profits, lost learners or indirect or consequential loss. Nothing limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

You may stop teaching and close your instructor account at any time by contacting support@educationlabsai.com, subject to honouring sessions already booked and to the learner-access commitment in Section 4.

We may suspend or terminate your instructor status immediately if you materially breach this Agreement, breach a safeguarding obligation, are the subject of a credible rights or conduct complaint, misrepresent your credentials, or where we are required to act by law. Otherwise we will give you 30 days’ notice.

On termination we will pay any earnings properly due, subject to refunds, chargebacks and any amounts withheld under Section 9. Sections 4 (to the extent stated), 5, 8, 11, 12 and 15 survive.

We may update this Agreement. We will give at least 30 days’ notice of material changes by email to the address on your account. Continuing to teach after the change takes effect means you accept it. If you do not accept it, you may terminate under Section 13 without penalty.

This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Florida, United States, and the dispute resolution, arbitration and class action waiver provisions in Section 21 of the Terms of Service apply to it in full, including your right to opt out within 30 days.