These Instructor Terms were last updated May 3, 2021.

You agree to abide by these Instructor Terms when you sign up to become an instructor on the HF Course platform (“Terms”). These Terms cover details about the aspects of the HF Course platform relevant to instructors. They are incorporated by reference into our Terms of Use, 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 terms of use.

As an instructor, you are contracting directly with HF Course, Inc. (a Delaware corporation in the United States), regardless of whether another HF Course subsidiary facilitates payments to you.

1. Instructor Obligations

As an instructor, you are responsible for all content you post, including lectures, quizzes, coding exercises, practise tests, assignments, resources, answers, course landing page content, labs, assessments, and announcements (“Submitted Content”).

You represent and warrant that:

you will provide and maintain accurate account information;

you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, permissions, and authority to authorize HF Course to use your Submitted Content as specified in these Terms and the Terms of Use;

your Submitted Content will not infringe or misappropriate any third party’s intellectual property rights;

you have the required qualifications, credentials, and expertise (including education, training, knowledge, and skill sets) to teach and offer the services that you provide through your Submitted Content and use of the Services; and

you will ensure a quality of service that corresponds with your industry and instruction services standards in general.

You warrant that you will not:

post or provide any inappropriate, offensive, racist, hateful, sexist, pornographic, false, misleading, incorrect, infringing, defamatory or libellous content or information;

post or transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, junk mail, spam, or any other form of solicitation (commercial or otherwise) through the Services or to any user;

use the Services for business other than providing tutoring, teaching, and instructional services to students;

engage in any activity that would require us to obtain licenses from or pay royalties to any third party, including the need to pay royalties for the public performance of a musical work or sound recording;

the frame or embed the Services (such as to embed a free version of a course) or otherwise circumvent the Services;

impersonate another person or gain unauthorized access to another person’s account;

interfere with or otherwise prevent other Instructors from providing their services or content; or

abuse HF Course resources, including support services.

2. License to HF Course

You grant HF Course the rights detailed in terms of use 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 HF Course 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, HF Course’s right to sublicense the rights in this section will terminate concerning new users 60 days after the Submitted Content’s removal. However, (1) rights given to students before the Submitted Content’s removal will continue by the terms of those licenses (including any grants of lifetime access) and (2) HF Course’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 delivery, marketing, promotion, demonstrating, or operating the Services. You grant HF Course permission to use your name, likeness, voice, and image in connection with the offering, delivering, marketing, promoting, demonstrating, and selling the Services, your Submitted Content, or HF Course’s content. You waive any rights of privacy, publicity, or other rights of a similar nature, to the extent permissible under applicable law.

3. Trust & Safety

3.1 Trust & Safety Policies

You agree to abide by HF Course’s Trust & Safety policies, Restricted Topics policy, and other content quality standards or policies prescribed by HF Course 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 HF Course’s approval, which we may grant or deny at our sole discretion.

3.2 Co-Instructors and Teaching Assistants

The HF Course platform allows you to add other users as co-instructors or teaching assistants for Submitted Content that you manage. 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 specific steps that affect your HF Course account and Submitted Content. Your co-instructor or teaching assistant’s violation of HF Course’s terms and policies may also impact your HF Courseaccount and Submitted Content. HF Course cannot advise on any questions or mediate any disputes between you and 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.

3.3 Relationship to Other Users

Instructors don’t have a direct contractual relationship with students, so the only information you’ll receive about students is provided to you through the Services. You agree that you will not use the data you receive for any purpose other than delivering your services to those students on the HF Course platform. You won’t solicit additional personal data or store students’ data outside the HF Course platform. You agree to indemnify HF Course against any claims arising from using students’ data.

3.4 Anti-Piracy Efforts

We partner with anti-piracy vendors to help protect your content from unauthorized use. To enable this protection, you appoint HF Course and our anti-piracy vendors as your agents to enforce copyrights for each of your content, through notice and takedown processes (under applicable copyright laws like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and for other efforts to enforce those rights. You grant HF Course and our anti-piracy vendor’s primary authority to file notices on your behalf to enforce your copyright interests.

You agree that HF Course and our anti-piracy vendors will retain the above rights unless you revoke them by sending an email to info@hfcourse.com 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.

4. Pricing

4.1 Price Setting

When creating Submitted Content available for purchase on the HF Course, 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 allowed to participate in specific 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.

When a student purchases using a foreign currency, we will convert the relevant Base Price or Promotional Program price into the student’s applicable cash using a system-wide foreign currency conversion rate set by HF Course and fixed periodically into a table of corresponding price tiers by currency (“Price Tier Matrix”). Since the Price Tier Matrix is selected, those conversion rates may not be identical to the applicable market rate in effect when a transaction is processed. We reserve the right to update the Price Tier Matrix at any time. The Price Tier Matrix and additional information on HF Course’s pricing tiers are available here.

The mobile platform provider’s pricing matrix will control student purchases through a mobile application. We will choose the price tier closest to the applicable Base Price or Promotional Program price. Because mobile platforms impose their currency conversion rates, conversions for mobile app prices may not match the modifications in the Price Tier Matrix.

You permit us 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.

4.2 Transaction Taxes

Suppose a student purchases a product or service in a country that requires HF Course to remit national, state, or local sales or use taxes, value-added taxes (VAT), or other similar transaction taxes (“Transaction Taxes”), under applicable law. In that case, 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 to 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).

4.3 Promotional Programs

HF Course 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 HF Course 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. However, changes you make will not apply to currently active campaigns, and specific programs may have additional requirements on termination.

5. Payments

5.1 Revenue Share

When a student purchases your Submitted Content, we calculate the gross amount of the sale as the amount received by HF Course 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 in to any of HF Course’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 37% of the Net Amount less any applicable deductions, such as student refunds. If we change this payment rate, we will provide you with 30 days notice using prominent means, such as via email or by posting a notice through our Services.

If you opt into any Promotional Programs, the relevant revenue share may be different and specified in the Promotions Policy.

HF Course makes all instructor payments in U.S. dollars (USD) regardless of the currency the sale was made. HF Course 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 (USD).

5.2 Instructor Coupons and Course Referral Links

The HF Course platform allows you to generate coupon codes and referral links to offer particular items of your Submitted Content to students at a discount, at HF Course’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. Our Trust & Safety policies outline 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 97% of the Net Amount less any applicable deductions, such as student refunds.

5.3 Receiving Payments

For us to pay you promptly, you must own a PayPal, Payoneer, or U.S. bank account (for U.S. 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 or tax documentation (such as a W-9 or W-8) necessary to pay amounts due. You agree that we have the right to withhold appropriate taxes from your payments. We reserve the right to withhold payments or impose other penalties if we do not receive proper identifying information or tax documentation from you. 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 a U.S. 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 set forth by your state, country, or other government authority in its unclaimed property laws, we may process the funds due to you following our legal obligations, including by submitting those funds to the appropriate government authority as required by law.

5.4 Refunds

You acknowledge and agree that students have the right to receive a refund, as detailed in terms of use. Instructors will not receive any revenue from transactions for which a refund has been granted under the Terms of Use.

Suppose a student asks for a refund after paying the relevant instructor payment. In that case, we reserve the right to either (1) deduct the amount of the refund from the following 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.

6. Trademarks

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:

only use the images of our trademarks that we make available to you, as detailed in any guidelines we may publish;

only use our trademarks in connection with the promotion and sale of your Submitted Content available on HF Course or your participation on HF Course; and

immediately comply if we request that you discontinue use.

You must not:

use our trademarks misleadingly or disparagingly;

use our trademarks in a way that implies that we endorse, sponsor, or approve of your Submitted Content or services; or

Use our trademarks in a way that violates applicable law or in connection with an obscene, indecent, or unlawful topic or material.

7. Deleting Your Account

Instructions on how to delete your instructor account are available here. We’ll use commercially reasonable efforts to make any remaining scheduled payments 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.

8. Miscellaneous Legal Terms

8.1 Updating These Terms

From time to time, we may update these Terms to clarify our practices or reflect new or different methods (such as when we add new features), and HF Course reserves the right in its sole discretion to modify and 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 information 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 means that you accept those changes. Any revised Terms shall supersede all previous Terms.

8.2 Translations

Any version of these Terms in a language other than English is convenient. You understand and agree that the English language will control any conflict.

8.3 Relationship Between Us

You and I agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, contractor, or agency relationship exists.

8.4 Survival

The following sections shall survive the expiration or termination of these Terms: Sections 2 (License to HF Course), 3.3 (Relationship to Other Users), 5.3 (Receiving Payments), 5.4 (Refunds), 7 (Deleting Your Account), and 8 (Miscellaneous Legal Terms).

9. How to Contact Us

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.