Platform Terms for Tutors

This platform is operated by Learning Bridge LTD, a company registered in England and Wales. The platform currently trades under the Mr Moussally brand. Mr Moussally is an Edexcel Examiner and qualified secondary maths teacher.

By applying to teach on the platform you are entering into a self-employed engagement with Learning Bridge LTD and agreeing to meet the platform's quality standards in every session you deliver.

You provide the tuition; we provide the platform. Your contract for a lesson is with the student or parent who books it. Learning Bridge acts as your agent to market your availability, take the booking and collect the payment — we keep our commission and pass the rest to you. That means you are responsible to your students for the lessons you deliver, and we are responsible for the platform. See Recital A1 and Clause 2 of your Tutor Agreement.

You provide your services as a self-employed independent contractor. You are not an employee, worker, agent, or partner of Learning Bridge LTD, and nothing in these terms creates an employment relationship, partnership, or joint venture between us.

• You are responsible for your own tax, National Insurance (or the equivalent in your country of residence), and any business registration your jurisdiction requires
• You are not entitled to holiday pay, sick pay, pension contributions, or any other employee benefit
• You decide your own availability and set your own rates above the platform minimum
• You may teach elsewhere, including for other platforms, provided you meet the commitments you have already accepted here
• You are responsible for your own insurance — see your Tutor Agreement

Because teachers on this platform are based in more than one country, your own tax and self-employment obligations depend on where you live. If you are unsure how these terms apply to you, take your own professional advice before signing your Tutor Agreement.

You teach from wherever you are in the world. The law that applies to you is the law of the country you are physically in when you deliver the lesson — not the law of the country this platform is registered in. Being contracted to a UK company, and being paid from the UK in pounds, does not change that.

So, before you deliver a single session, you confirm that you are legally entitled to provide tutoring services from where you are, and that you hold everything the law there requires of you. Depending on where you live that may include:

• A valid visa or residence permit
• A work permit or freelance permit (in the UAE, from MOHRE or your free zone) — or your sponsor's or employer's permission to do outside work
• A tutoring or private-tuition permit, or an educational approval (in the UAE, from KHDA in Dubai, ADEK in Abu Dhabi, or the Ministry of Education)
• A professional licence or registration
• A tax or business registration
• Insurance, and a criminal-record or safeguarding check

We do not check any of this, and we cannot advise you on it. Our review is about your teaching — your qualifications, your subject knowledge, whether you are someone we want teaching on this platform. It is not a check of your immigration, permit or tax position, and being accepted onto the platform is not us confirming that you are allowed to tutor where you live. If you are not sure, take local advice before you start, not after.

You also agree that:

• You will tell us immediately if your right to teach changes, expires, is withdrawn, or comes into question — or if you move to a different country
• You will not deliver a session at a time when you do not hold that right
• We can ask you for evidence of it at any time, and you will provide it within 14 days
• We can suspend or remove your profile if you cannot show it, or if we reasonably believe you do not hold it
• You will re-confirm all of this once a year, in the Annual Compliance Declaration we send you
• Your taxes, social security, licences and permits are yours to deal with — we deduct nothing and file nothing on your behalf

If you break this and it costs us money — a fine, a penalty, a claim, or the legal cost of dealing with one — you are responsible for that cost. That is Clause 14 of your Tutor Agreement, and it is worth reading before you sign.

If you teach from the UAE, read this twice. The fact that your agreement is with a UK company, and that we pay you from the UK, does not remove any obligation you may have under UAE law — including any permit or licence needed to provide paid tutoring in the Emirate you live in — a MOHRE work or freelance permit, and a KHDA, ADEK or Ministry of Education private-tuition permit. We are telling you this because people assume the opposite. Check your own position.

You must hold professional indemnity insurance appropriate to private tutoring, in force for the whole time you are listed, and you must not deliver a session when it is not. If you teach face-to-face you also need public liability cover. This is a condition of being on the platform, not a suggestion.

Learning Bridge holds no insurance covering you or the lessons you deliver. We may ask for evidence of your cover at any time, and you must tell us immediately if a policy lapses, is cancelled, or is not renewed — we may suspend your profile until valid cover is shown.

Anything you upload is yours, and is your responsibility. You confirm that your notes, questions and materials are your own work, or material you are licensed to use, and that they infringe nobody else's rights. Exam board papers, mark schemes and publishers' material must not be uploaded unless you hold a licence permitting it. If a complaint is made we may remove content immediately while we look into it, and that removal is not an admission that the complaint is justified.

The platform retains a commission (a percentage of revenue) as a platform fee, and you keep the majority of what you earn. Commission is agreed individually — your exact rate is set out in your Tutor Agreement, and you can see it any time on your Finance page.

We may change your rate only on at least 30 days' written notice(Clause 5 of your Tutor Agreement). A change never affects work you have already done: every course and lesson booking keeps the commission rate it was created with, so your past earnings are never recalculated.

• The commission applies to group session revenue
• The commission applies to private (1-to-1) lesson revenue
• The commission applies to course enrollment revenue

Payouts are calculated monthly. Minimum rates are set in the platform configuration and you may not advertise sessions below these minimums through the platform.

You set your own rates above the platform minimum. The platform will never change your advertised rate without your explicit consent.

You are paid in pounds sterling (GBP). Your earnings are shown in GBP throughout your Finance dashboard, and that GBP figure is what you are paid.

Some lessons are agreed and charged to the parent in another currency (for example UAE dirhams for a family based in the UAE). Where that happens, the amount is converted to GBP and your GBP earnings are based on the amount actually received after currency conversion, recorded at the time the payment is taken. Because exchange rates move, the GBP figure for a lesson priced in another currency is fixed when the payment is collected, not when the lesson is booked.

By joining the platform you confirm that you:

• Hold a recognised UK teaching qualification (QTS, PGCE, BEd, or equivalent)
• Are a practising or recently practising secondary school teacher
• Have an accurate and up-to-date criminal-record check — an Enhanced DBS, or the equivalent where you live (see §4)
• Will deliver sessions on time and to a professional standard
• Will not mislead students or parents about your qualifications or experience
• Will keep your profile information accurate at all times
• Will give at least 24 hours' notice for any session cancellation
• Will follow the platform's content quality standards when creating notes or questions (reviewed by Mr Moussally before publication)

All tutors must hold a current criminal-record check — an Enhanced DBS certificate or, if you live outside the UK and so cannot obtain one, the equivalent police-clearance or good-conduct certificate in your country of residence — before delivering their first session to a student under 18. This is a non-negotiable requirement with no exceptions.

You are responsible for maintaining that check. The platform may request a copy of your DBS certificate at any time. If your DBS expires or is revoked, you must notify Mr Moussally immediately and you will not be permitted to deliver sessions until a valid certificate is in place.

The platform operates a safeguarding-first policy. Any safeguarding concern — however minor — must be reported to Mr Moussally immediately. Do not attempt to resolve safeguarding concerns independently.

Mr Moussally reserves the right to suspend or permanently deactivate any tutor account where a safeguarding concern is raised, with immediate effect and without prior notice, pending investigation.

The platform provides a messaging service between you and the parents of students you teach. You may reply to any parent who contacts you, but you may only start a new conversation with a parent whose child you already teach. Students have no access to messaging — you cannot message a student directly through the platform.

Messages are not private from the platform. All messages are stored, and Mr Moussally may read them where necessary to investigate a safeguarding concern, resolve a dispute, respond to a report of misuse, or comply with a legal obligation. Messages are not read routinely.

Do not use messaging to share personal contact details in order to arrange lessons outside the platform. Doing so is a breach of section 3 (Platform commission) and may result in deactivation.

Any revision notes, practice questions, or teaching materials you create on the platform remain your intellectual property. You grant the platform a non-exclusive licence to display your content to students enrolled in your sessions or courses for as long as you are active on the platform.

All new content is subject to a review process before it is visible to students. Mr Moussally or a designated reviewer may request edits to ensure accuracy and consistency with platform standards. You will always be consulted before any substantive change is made to your content.

If you deactivate your account, your content will be removed from student-facing pages within 30 days. Content already embedded in completed session logs (for the student's own records) will not be removed.

You must give at least 24 hours' notice to cancel or reschedule any session. Cancellations within 24 hours without a genuine emergency reason are a breach of these terms, and repeated breaches may lead to deactivation.

If a student does not attend a session and you have not been notified in advance, the session is still payable to you at the agreed rate.

If you cancel a session, the student is entitled to a full automatic refund for that session. You should also offer to reschedule at no additional cost.

The full cancellation and refund policy for students is at /terms.

Either party may end this engagement with 30 days' written notice (email is sufficient), subject to the completion of any sessions already booked by students. Neither side needs to give a reason.

The platform may deactivate your account and remove your listings immediately and without prior notice in any of the following circumstances:

• A safeguarding concern is raised against you
• Your DBS certificate is found to be expired, invalid, or revoked
• You provide false information on your application or profile
• You breach these terms in a material way
• A student or parent complaint is upheld following investigation

In all other cases we will give you 7 days' written notice before deactivation takes effect, and will tell you why.

Deactivation ends your access to the platform. It is not a disciplinary process and does not imply any employment relationship — see section 2.