These Instructor Terms were last updated February 25, 2021.

When you sign up to become an instructor on the Horse Liberty Training platform, you agree to abide by these Instructor Terms (“Terms”). These Terms cover details about the aspects of the Horse Liberty Training platform relevant to instructors and 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 the Terms of Use. As an instructor, you are contracting directly with Horse Liberty Training. (a Maryland corporation in the United States), regardless of whether another Horse Liberty Training subsidiary facilitates payments to you.

1. Instructor Obligations
As an instructor, you are responsible for all content that you post, including lectures, videos, images, quizzes, exercises, practice tests, assignments, resources, answers, course landing page content, 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 Horse Liberty Training 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 offer through your Submitted Content and use of the Services; and * you will respond promptly to students and ensure a quality of service that corresponds with the standards of your industry and instruction services in general.

You warrant that you will not:

• post or provide any inappropriate, offensive, racist, hateful, sexist, pornographic, false, misleading, incorrect, infringing, defamatory or libelous 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;
• impersonate another person or gain unauthorized access to another person’s account;
• interfere with or otherwise prevent other instructors from providing their services or courses; or
• abuse Horse Liberty Training resources, including support services.

2. License to Horse Liberty Training
Our marketplace model means that when you publish a course on our platform, you retain all the rights to your content. You grant us a license to host the course and make it available to our users, and to advertise your course on our platform and on third party services. You grant Horse Liberty Training the rights detailed in the Terms of Use to offer and market your Submitted Content, and to sublicense it to students for these purposes directly or through third parties. This includes the right to add captions or otherwise modify content to ensure accessibility. 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, Horse Liberty Training’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) Horse Liberty Training’s right to use such Submitted Content for marketing purposes shall survive termination. We may review all or any part of your Submitted Content for quality control and for delivering, marketing, promoting, demonstrating, or operating the Services. You grant Horse Liberty Training 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 Horse Liberty Training’s content, and 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 Horse Liberty Training’s Restricted Topics policy, and other course quality standards or policies prescribed by Horse Liberty Training 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 Horse Liberty Training’s approval, which we may grant or deny at our sole discretion.
We reserve the right to remove courses, suspend payouts, and/or ban instructors for any reason at any time, without prior notice, including in cases where:

• an instructor or course does not comply with our policies or legal terms (including the Terms of Use);
• a course falls below our quality standards or has a negative impact on the student experience;
• an instructor engages in behavior that might reflect unfavorably on Horse Liberty Training or bring Horse Liberty Training into public disrepute, contempt, scandal, or ridicule;
• an instructor engages the services of a marketer or other business partner who violates Horse Liberty Training’s policies; or
• as determined by Horse Liberty Training in its sole discretion.

3.2 Relationship to Other Users
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 Horse Liberty Training platform, and that you won’t solicit additional personal data or store students’ personal data outside the Horse Liberty Training platform. You will indemnify Horse Liberty Training against any claims arising from your use of students’ personal data.

4. Pricing
4.1 Price Setting
When creating a course, you will be prompted to select a base price (“Base Price”) for your course from a list of available price tiers. Alternatively, you may choose to offer your course 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”).

4.2 Transaction Taxes
If a student purchases a product or service in a country that requires Horse Liberty Training 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).

4.3 Promotional Programs
Horse Liberty Training 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 Horse Liberty Training by finding the optimal price point for your courses and promoting them through additional marketing channels. 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.

5. Payments
5.1 Revenue Share
When a student purchases your course, we calculate the gross amount of the sale as the amount actually received by Horse Liberty Training from the student (“Gross Amount”). From this, we subtract any Transaction Taxes and a 5% administrative and handling fee to calculate the net amount of the sale (“Net Amount”).
Your revenue share will be 80% of the Net Amount less any applicable deductions, such as student refunds or promotional discounts. 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. Horse Liberty Training makes all instructor payments in U.S. dollars (USD) regardless of the currency with which the sale was made. Your revenue report will show the sales price (in local currency) and your converted revenue amount (in USD).

5.2 Receiving Payments
For us to pay you in a timely manner, you must own a PayPal account 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 for payment of amounts due, and 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.  Payment will be made to your PayPal account within 14 days of requesting a withdrawal for your earned revenue share.
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 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.

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

6. 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 that are owed to you before deleting your account. You understand that if students have previously enrolled in your courses, your name and that Submitted Content will 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.

7. Miscellaneous Legal Terms
7.1 Updating These Terms
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 Horse Liberty Training 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.

7.2 Relationship Between Us
You and we agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, contractor, or agency relationship exists between us.

7.3 Survival
The following sections shall survive the expiration or termination of these Terms: Sections 2 (License to Horse Liberty Training), 3.3 (Relationship to Other Users), 5.2 (Receiving Payments), 5.3 (Refunds), 8 (Deleting Your Account), and 9 (Miscellaneous Legal Terms).

8. 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.