Instructor Terms

When you sign up to become an instructor on the examBrains platform, you agree to abide by these Instructor Terms (“Terms“). These Terms cover details about the aspects of the examBrains 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 examBrains.com.

1. Instructor Obligations

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, 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 examBrains 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;
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 courses; or
abuse examBrains resources, including support services.

2. License to examBrains

You grant examBrains the rights detailed in the Terms of Use to offer, market, and otherwise exploit 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, you have the right to remove all or any portion of your Submitted Content from the Services at any time. Except as otherwise agreed, examBrains right to sub license 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) examBrains right to use such Submitted Content for marketing purposes shall survive termination.

We may record all or any part of your Submitted Content for quality control and for delivering, marketing, promoting, demonstrating, or operating the Services. You grant examBrains 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 examBrains 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 examBrains, Restricted Topics Policy, and other course quality standards or policies prescribed by examBrains from time to time. You should check these policies periodically to ensure that you comply with any updates to them. You understand that our use of the Services is subject to examBrains 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 examBrains or bring examBrains into public disrepute, contempt, scandal, or ridicule;
an instructor engages the services of a marketer or other business partner who violates examBrains policies; or
as determined by examBrains in its sole discretion.

3.2 Co-Instructors and Teaching Assistants

The examBrains platform allows you to add other users as co-instructors or teaching assistants for courses that you manage. By adding a co-instructor or teaching assistant, you understand that you are authorizing them to take certain actions that affect your examBrains account and courses. examBrains 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.

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 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 examBrains platform, and that you won’t solicit additional personal data or store students’ personal data outside the examBrains platform. You will indemnify examBrains 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 input a base price (“Base Price“) for your course. Alternatively, you may choose to offer your course for free. We will list your course for the Base Price on our web and mobile.

4.3 Promotional Programs

examBrains offers an optional marketing & promotional program in which you can choose to participate. These program can help increase your revenue potential on examBrains by promoting your course through additional marketing channels.

There is no up-front cost to participate in these program, you can quit the program at anytime you wish.

5. Payments

5.1 Revenue Share

When a student purchases your course, revenue generated from student for course sale is splitted between examBrains and the Instructor.

If we change our revenue sharing formula between examBrains and Instructor, we will provide you 30 days notice using prominent means, such as via email or notification via our web and mobile app.

examBrains makes all instructor payments in (in local currency) regardless of the currency with which the sale was made. We will assume transaction processing fees, excluding foreign currency conversion fees and wiring fees. Your revenue report will show the sales price (in local currency).

5.2 Receiving Payments

For us to pay you in a timely manner, you must own a local bank account in good standing and must keep us informed of the correct email associated with your account.

Depending on the applicable revenue share model, payment will be made within 30 days of the end of the month in which (a) we receive the fee for a course or (b) the relevant course consumption occurred.

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. 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.
only use our trademarks in connection with the promotion and sale of your examBrains courses or your participation on examBrains; and
immediately comply if we request that you discontinue use.

You must not:

use our trademarks in a misleading or disparaging way;
use our trademarks in a way that implies that we endorse, sponsor, or approve of your courses 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

Instructors can delete there account from there dashboard by clicking Settings >> Delete Account. 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.

8. Miscellaneous Legal Terms

8.1 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 examBrains 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 web and mobile app messaging system. 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.

8.2 Translations

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.

8.3 Relationship Between Us

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

8.4 Survival

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

9. How to Contact Us

The best way to contact us is email [email protected]. We’d love to hear your questions, concerns, and feedback about our Services.