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. Our founder, Mr Moussally, is an examiner who marks real exam papers, and a 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.

Some things stay with us whoever teaches the lesson: the personal data the platform holds (we are its data controller), what we advertise about our teachers and how we vet them, and every payment that passes through us — charges, refunds and payouts.

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’s minimum lesson price in section 3
• You may teach elsewhere, including for other platforms, provided you meet the commitments you have already accepted here
• Any insurance you hold is your own choice and your own responsibility (section 2B)

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, if your visa allows one (in the UAE these come from MOHRE or a free zone, and not every resident is eligible) — 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.

Insurance is your own decision. We do not require you to hold professional indemnity or public liability insurance to be listed, and we do not ask to see a policy. Learning Bridge holds no insurance covering you or the lessons you deliver, so if you want cover — for example public liability when you teach face to face — arrange it yourself. Where the law of the country you teach from requires insurance, that is part of your right to teach (section 2A).

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. We may remove any material at any time (section 7).

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 paid through the platform
• The commission applies to private (1-to-1) lesson revenue paid through the platform
• The commission applies to course enrollment revenue paid through the platform
• No commission is taken on a free lesson, or on a lesson organised outside the platform under section 3A — no money passes through us for either

You set your own rates. From 13 November 2026, a paid 1-to-1 lesson must be at least £25 per lesson (AED 125 for a family paying in dirhams). The platform will never change your rate without your explicit consent.

When you are paid. We pay weekly. Your share of a lesson becomes payable on the Monday after the family's payment for it has reached our bank (card payments usually take a few days to arrive). Only lessons that have actually been paid count — a lesson booked but not yet charged, or whose charge was declined, is not yet earnings. A lesson for which a refund has been requested is held out of your pay until the request is decided. Your Finance page shows what you have earned, what is due and when.

How you are paid. Your earnings are recorded in pounds sterling (GBP) on your Finance page. We pay you by bank transfer (through Wise) in the currency of your bank account: if your lessons were charged in UAE dirhams and you are paid in dirhams, you receive your share of the dirhams the families paid. Any cost of converting currency to pay you is borne by us, not deducted from you.

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.

Blocks paid up front — where the platform offers it. You may let a family pay for a block of lessons in one payment. Each lesson in the block is priced at the total divided by the number of lessons, and the family can still cancel and be refunded lesson by lesson under the parents' terms. Your share of the whole block becomes payable on the usual payday after the money reaches our bank. If a lesson you have already been paid for is refunded, your share of that lesson is deducted from your next payout; if no payout is due within 60 days, you repay it when we ask. We may later change to paying your share of each block lesson only after it has been taught — your Finance page would then show the rest as “on hold”. We will tell you in writing first, and the change would apply only to blocks booked after it. Clause 5A of your Tutor Agreement is the binding version.

Who counts as your own student. You have your own family invite code. A student whose account was created using your invite code is your own student for this section — including students who joined with your code before this section came into force. Our record of which code a student used decides it.

What you may do — where the platform offers it. For your own students only, you may mark a lesson as “Organised outside the platform”. You then agree the price and take payment with the family directly. We take no payment and no commission on that lesson and are not part of that payment arrangement, and the family sees the lesson as “Organised outside the platform”, with no price. Paying a teacher directly is otherwise not allowed: this is the only case in which the platform allows it.

What you may not do:

• Use it for any student who is not your own student — including a student we introduced to you or linked to you ourselves. Those lessons are always booked and paid through the platform, and its commission applies.
• Give your invite code to a family you met through the platform so that they become eligible.
• Book a paid lesson as “Free”. Free is for lessons that are genuinely free; a lesson you are paid for outside the platform must be marked as organised outside the platform.
• Tell a family, or let them believe, that we hold, protect or will refund their payment for these lessons.

What still applies, in full. Every lesson organised outside the platform is still scheduled and logged on the platform. Your safeguarding, conduct, criminal-record check, content and right-to-teach obligations (sections 2A, 2B, 4 and 5) apply to these lessons exactly as to any other, and any safeguarding concern in one must be reported to Mr Moussally at once. You are responsible for the price, payment, cancellation and refund terms you agree with the family, for any dispute about them, and for any tax on what you are paid.

If it is misused. Marking a lesson as organised outside the platform for a student who is not your own student is a breach of these terms in a material way. We may withdraw the option from you or for a particular student, rebook the affected lessons through the platform, and suspend or remove your profile (section 9). Clause 5B of your Tutor Agreement is the binding version.

You have invite links for families and for other teachers. When someone joins with one, we record that you invited them and what they joined as (student, parent or teacher).

Where the platform offers it, we may run a referral programme that rewards you when the people you invited reach milestones we set — for example a number of lessons taught or taken. If we do, we will publish the amounts and conditions at the time. No reward is due until every condition is met, and we may change or end the programme; a reward you have already earned is kept. There is no reward for inviting yourself or an account you control, for anyone who already had an account, or for any invitation made dishonestly or by spamming, and we can take back a reward paid in those cases, including from a later payout. A reward is income for you to declare. While a reward is on offer, tell the people you invite that you may be rewarded if they join. Clause 5C of your Tutor Agreement is the binding version.

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 school teacher
• Have an accurate and up-to-date criminal-record check — an Enhanced DBS, or the equivalent where you live (see section 5)
• 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 standards. Material for the platform's own scheme of work is reviewed before publication; what you share with your own students is yours (section 7)

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 check is no longer current 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. Mr Moussally can open any conversation on the platform, and does so only 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. He cannot post into a conversation he is not part of, and opening one does not mark it as read for you. A new-message notification email may include a short preview of the message.

Do not use messaging to share personal contact details in order to arrange lessons outside the platform, other than with your own students under section 3A. Doing so with anyone else is a breach of section 3 (Platform commission) and may result in deactivation.

You see a student's information only while you have a teaching relationship with them — they are in your course, have a 1-to-1 booking with you, joined with your invite code, or have been linked to you by us — and only for the subjects you teach. Students are shown to you by first name and the initial of their surname. Use what you see only to teach that student, keep it confidential, and do not keep it once you stop teaching them (Clause 8 of your Tutor Agreement). We can remove your access to a student at any time.

Any revision notes, practice questions, or teaching materials you create on the platform remain your intellectual property.

We review platform-wide material; what you upload for your own students is yours. Our own notes, questions and scheme-of-work resources — and anything you send us to add to them — are reviewed before students see them. Worksheets and files you share with your own students go live when you upload them: we do not check them first, and they are your responsibility, not ours. By accepting these terms you promise, for everything you upload or link, that you own it or have permission to share it with your students — there is no separate tick. A licence through your school does not cover private tuition.

You grant us a non-exclusive licence to store, host and show your material to the students you share it with and their parents, and to look at it ourselves to run the platform and deal with any report. Once we switch on private storage for teacher uploads (we will tell you the date), files you upload from then on can be opened only by your own students, their parents and us. A file uploaded before then can be opened by anyone who has its link, although we show the link only to the people you share it with.

We may remove any material at any time, without notice, if we think it may infringe someone's rights, breaks these terms, or has been reported. We will normally tell you why. If we remove your material for copyright reasons 3 times in 12 months — or once for a serious case — we may stop you uploading or end your account. If a claim is made against us because of your material, you are responsible for it (Tutor Agreement, Clauses 6 and 14.2(f)). We keep a record of each upload, report and removal for 6 years after you leave the platform.

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.

Families you teach may review you, and past families, colleagues or schools may write a testimonial for you through your link. Nothing is published until Mr Moussally has approved it, and he may decline or hide any review or testimonial. You cannot edit or remove a review. Ask for reviews only through the platform's own links, and do not write a review or testimonial about yourself, have one written for you, offer anything in return for one, or ask for it to be positive.

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 family has already paid for, they are refunded in full for that session — including a lesson in a block paid up front. When you cancel, you confirm the refund from Private Lessons, and it is recorded against the lesson. If you have already been paid for that lesson, your share is deducted from your next payout. 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
• You repeatedly or seriously upload material that infringes someone else's rights (section 7)
• 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.

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales. We will first try to resolve any dispute with you by good-faith discussion; if it is not resolved within 30 days, either of us may refer it to the courts of England and Wales.