Instructor Terms
These Instructor Terms were last updated September 6, 2023.
When you sign up to become an instructor on the TutorWanna platform, you agree to abide by these Instructor Terms ("Terms"). These Terms cover details about the aspects of the TutorWanna platform relevant to instructors and are incorporated by reference into our Terms and Condition, the general terms that govern your use of our Services. Any capitalized terms that aren't defined in these Terms are defined as specified in the Terms and Condition.
As an instructor, you are contracting directly with TutorWanna, Ltd. (a company in Portugal), regardless of whether another TutorWanna subsidiary facilitates payments to you.
As an instructor, you are responsible for all content that you post, including lectures, quizzes, coding exercises, practice tests, assignments, resources, answers, course landing page content, labs, assessments, and announcements ("Submitted Content").
You represent and warrant that:
You warrant that you will not:
You grant TutorWanna the rights detailed in the Terms and Condition to offer, market, and otherwise exploit your Submitted Content. This includes the right to add captions or otherwise modify Submitted Content to ensure accessibility. You also authorize TutorWanna to sublicense these rights to your Submitted Content to third parties, including to students directly and through third parties such as resellers, distributors, affiliate sites, deal sites, and paid advertising on third-party platforms.
Unless otherwise agreed (including within our Promotions Policy), you have the right to remove all or any portion of your Submitted Content from the Services at any time. Except as otherwise agreed, TutorWanna's right to sublicense the rights in this section will terminate with respect to new users 60 days after the Submitted Content's removal. However, (1) rights given to students before the Submitted Content's removal will continue in accordance with the terms of those licenses (including any grants of lifetime access) and (2) TutorWanna's right to use such Submitted Content for marketing purposes shall survive termination.
We may record and use all or any part of your Submitted Content for quality control and for delivering, marketing, promoting, demonstrating, or operating the Services. You grant TutorWanna permission to use your name, likeness, voice, and image in connection with offering, delivering, marketing, promoting, demonstrating, and selling the Services, your Submitted Content, or TutorWanna's content, and you waive any rights of privacy, publicity, or other rights of a similar nature, to the extent permissible under applicable law.
You agree to abide by TutorWanna's Trust & Safety policies, Restricted Topics policy, and other content quality standards or policies prescribed by TutorWanna from time to time. You should check these policies periodically to ensure that you comply with any updates to them. You understand that your use of the Services is subject to TutorWanna's approval, which we may grant or deny at our sole discretion.
We reserve the right to remove content, suspend payouts, and/or ban instructors for any reason at any time, without prior notice, including in cases where:
The TutorWanna platform allows you to add other users as co-instructors or teaching assistants for Submitted Content that you manage, and you are required to comply with our Co-Instructor Relationship Rules and Guidelines when taking such actions. By adding a co-instructor or teaching assistant, you understand that you are authorizing them to take certain actions that affect your TutorWanna account and Submitted Content. Violations of TutorWanna's terms and policies by your co-instructor or teaching assistant may also impact your TutorWanna account and Submitted Content. TutorWanna is not able to advise on any questions or mediate any disputes between you and such users. If your co-instructors have an assigned revenue share, their share will be paid out of your earned revenue share based on the ratios you have specified in your Course Management settings as of the date of the purchase.
Instructors don't have a direct contractual relationship with students, so the only information you'll receive about students is what is provided to you through the Services. You agree that you will not use the data you receive for any purpose other than providing your services to those students on the TutorWanna platform, and that you won't solicit additional personal data or store students' personal data outside the TutorWanna platform. You agree to indemnify TutorWanna against any claims arising from your use of students' personal data.
We partner with anti-piracy vendors to help protect your content from unauthorized use. To enable this protection, you hereby appoint TutorWanna and our anti-piracy vendors as your agents for the purpose of enforcing copyrights for each of your content, through notice and take-down processes (under applicable copyright laws like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and for other efforts to enforce those rights. You grant TutorWanna and our anti-piracy vendors primary authority to file notices on your behalf to enforce your copyright interests.
You agree that TutorWanna and our anti-piracy vendors will retain the above rights unless you revoke them by sending an email to Copyright with the subject line: "Revoke Anti-Piracy Protection Rights" from the email address associated with your account. Any revocation of rights will be effective 48 hours after we receive it.
When creating Submitted Content available for purchase on TutorWanna, you will be prompted to select a base price ("Base Price") for your Submitted Content from a list of available price tiers. Alternatively, you may choose to offer your Submitted Content for free. As a premium instructor, you will also be given the opportunity to participate in certain promotional programs under the terms of our Promotions Policy ("Promotional Programs").
If you do not opt to participate in any Promotional Programs, we will list your Submitted Content for the Base Price or the closest local or mobile app equivalent (as detailed below). If you opt to participate in a Promotional Program, we may set a different discounted price or list price for your Submitted Content as described in the Promotions Policy.
Purchases by students will always be made in the EUR currency (EUROS).
When a student purchases through a mobile application, the mobile platform provider's pricing matrix will control, and we will choose the price tier closest to the applicable Base Price or Promotional Program price.
You give us permission to share your Submitted Content for free with our employees, with selected partners, and in cases where we need to restore access to accounts who have previously purchased your Submitted Content. You understand that you will not receive compensation in these cases.
If a student purchases a product or service in a country that requires TutorWanna to remit national, state, or local sales or use taxes, value added taxes (VAT), or other similar transaction taxes ("Transaction Taxes"), under applicable law, we will collect and remit those Transaction Taxes to the competent tax authorities for those sales. We may increase the sale price at our discretion where we determine that such taxes may be due. For purchases through mobile applications, applicable Transaction Taxes are collected by the mobile platform (such as Apple's App Store or Google Play).
TutorWanna offers several optional marketing programs (Promotional Programs) in which you can choose to participate, as detailed in our Promotions Policy. These programs can help increase your revenue potential on TutorWanna by finding the optimal price point for your Submitted Content and offering them through subscriptions collections.
There is no up-front cost to participate in these programs, and you can modify your participation status at any time, though changes you make will not apply to currently active campaigns and certain programs may have additional requirements on termination.
When a student purchases your Submitted Content, we calculate the gross amount of the sale as the amount actually received by TutorWanna from the student ("Gross Amount"). From this, we subtract any Transaction Taxes, any mobile platform fees applied to mobile provider checkout sales, a 3% service and processing fee (except in Japan, where we subtract a 4% fee) for any non-mobile provider checkout sales, and any amounts paid to third parties in connection with the Promotional Programs to calculate the net amount of the sale ("Net Amount").
If you have not opted into any of TutorWanna's optional Promotional Programs, and except for sales through instructor-generated coupon codes or course referral links as described below, your revenue share will be 50% of the Net Amount less any applicable deductions, such as student refunds. If we change this payment rate, we will provide you 30 days notice using prominent means, such as via email or by posting a notice through our Services.
If you opt into any of the Promotional Programs, the relevant revenue share may be different and will be as specified in the Promotions Policy.
TutorWanna makes all instructor payments in Euros (EUR) regardless of the currency with which the sale was made. TutorWanna is not responsible for your foreign currency conversion fees, wiring fees, or any other processing fees that you may incur. Your revenue report will show the sales price (in local currency) and your converted revenue amount (in EUR).
The TutorWanna platform allows you to generate coupon codes and referral links to offer certain items of your Submitted Content to students at a discount, at TutorWanna's current price, or for free, as permitted within the Services. These coupon codes and referral links are subject to limits, and you may not sell them on third-party websites or otherwise offer them in exchange for compensation. Additional information and restrictions on these coupon codes and referral links are outlined in our Trust & Safety policies.
Where a student applies your coupon code or referral link at checkout, your revenue share will be 75% of the Net Amount less any applicable deductions, such as student refunds.
For us to pay you in a timely manner, you must own a PayPal or Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) (for EU residents only) in good standing and must keep us informed of the correct email associated with your account. You must also provide any identifying information for payment of amounts due. You understand and agree that you are ultimately responsible for any taxes on your income.
Depending on the applicable revenue share model, payment will be made within 45 days of the end of the month in which (a) we receive the fee for a course or (b) the relevant course consumption occurred.
As an instructor, you are responsible for determining whether you are eligible to be paid by an EU company. We reserve the right not to pay out funds in the event of identified fraud, violations of intellectual property rights, or other violations of the law.
If we cannot settle funds into your payment account after the period of time set forth by your state, country, or other government authority in its unclaimed property laws, we may process the funds due to you in accordance with our legal obligations, including by submitting those funds to the appropriate government authority as required by law.
You acknowledge and agree that students have the right to receive a refund, as detailed in the Terms and Condition. Instructors will not receive any revenue from transactions for which a refund has been granted under the Terms and Condition.
If a student asks for a refund after we have paid the relevant instructor payment, we reserve the right to either (1) deduct the amount of the refund from the next payment sent to the instructor or (2) where no further payments are due to the instructor or the payments are insufficient to cover the refunded amounts, require the instructor to refund any amounts refunded to students for the instructor's Submitted Content.
While you are a published instructor and subject to the requirements below, you may use our trademarks where we authorize you to do so.
You must:
You must not:
Instructions on how to delete your instructor account are available here. We'll use commercially reasonable efforts to make any remaining scheduled payments that are owed to you before deleting your account. You understand that if students have previously enrolled in your Submitted Content, your name and that Submitted Content may remain accessible to those students after your account is deleted. If you need help or encounter difficulty deleting your account, you can contact us via our Support Center.
From time to time, we may update these Terms to clarify our practices or to reflect new or different practices (such as when we add new features), and TutorWanna reserves the right in its sole discretion to modify and/or make changes to these Terms at any time. If we make any material change, we will notify you using prominent means such as by email notice sent to the email address specified in your account or by posting a notice through our Services. Modifications will become effective on the day they are posted unless stated otherwise.
Your continued use of our Services after changes become effective shall mean that you accept those changes. Any revised Terms shall supersede all previous Terms.
Any version of these Terms in a language other than English is provided for convenience, and you understand and agree that the English language will control if there is any conflict.
You and we agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, contractor, or agency relationship exists between us.
The following sections shall survive the expiration or termination of these Terms: Sections 2 (License to TutorWanna), 3.3 (Relationship to Other Users), 5.3 (Receiving Payments), 5.4 (Refunds), 7 (Deleting Your Account), and 8 (Miscellaneous Legal Terms).
The best way to get in touch with us is to contact our Support Team. We'd love to hear your questions, concerns, and feedback about our Services.
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