← All documents

DubloLearn Tutor Agreement

Effective date: 1 September 2026 Version: 1.0

This Agreement is between Konit, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Konit”, “we”, “us”), registered at 131 Continental Dr, Suite 305, Newark, DE 19713, United States, and you, the person or business who registers to offer tutoring through DubloLearn (“you”, “your”).

By registering as a tutor you accept this Agreement. Please read section 4 (how you get paid and what we charge), section 13 (how and when we can change these terms), and section 20 (how disputes are resolved) with particular care.

1. What this relationship is

1.1 You run your own business. You are not an employee, worker, agent, partner or joint venturer of Konit, and nothing in this Agreement creates any of those relationships. You are engaged by your students, not by us.

1.2 Konit does not provide tutoring. We operate a marketplace and the tools around it: your public listing, search and discovery, scheduling, the video classroom, messaging, payment collection on your behalf, and dispute handling. The teaching is yours.

1.3 When a learner books you, the contract for that lesson is between you and the learner. Konit is not a party to it.

1.4 You are in control of your own work. Specifically:

1.5 You are free to work anywhere else. You may teach on other platforms, teach privately, and run any other business or occupation. This Agreement imposes no exclusivity and does not restrict what you charge or offer elsewhere.

1.6 Because you are not an employee, we do not withhold employment taxes, and you are not entitled to employee benefits, paid leave, workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance or pension contributions from us. Section 9 covers tax.

2. Joining, and staying

2.1 You must be at least 18, legally able to work as a self-employed person where you live, and able to teach the language you list.

2.2 We verify identity, and where the law allows we obtain background check reports. We may decline an application. If we decline, we tell you why and how to ask us to look again, unless the law prevents us.

2.3 Everything on your profile must be true — your name, credentials, experience, and the languages you speak. You are responsible for holding any licence or registration your own country requires for what you do.

3. We collect payment for you

3.1 You appoint Konit as your limited payment collection agent, for the sole purpose of accepting payment from learners on your behalf for lessons you supply through DubloLearn. This appointment takes effect when you accept this Agreement and before any learner pays you through us.

3.2 A learner’s payment to Konit is treated as payment made directly to you. The learner’s obligation to pay you for that lesson is satisfied and extinguished at the moment Konit receives the money, and the learner bears no loss if Konit fails to pay it onward to you. You will not seek payment for that lesson from the learner again.

3.3 You will hold Konit out publicly as accepting payment for your lessons on your behalf. We display this on your public profile in the following form, and you agree to it being displayed:

“[Your name] accepts payment for lessons through DubloLearn. DubloLearn collects payment on their behalf; paying DubloLearn is the same as paying [Your name] directly.”

3.4 You will not ask a learner you met on DubloLearn to pay you outside the platform for a lesson booked through it. This is the one commercial restriction in this Agreement, and it exists so that section 3.2 remains true. It does not apply to learners you find elsewhere, and it does not stop a learner from leaving the platform and engaging you privately after your relationship with them here ends.

4. What you earn and what we charge

4.1 You are paid the price you set for each lesson, less our commission.

4.2 Our commission is 30% of the lesson price. It is stated in your dashboard before you list, shown on every booking before you accept it, and itemised on every payout statement.

4.3 Trial lessons.

You may offer a trial lesson to a learner you have never taught before. You set its price, like every other price on DubloLearn.

Konit retains the full price of a trial lesson. You are not paid for that lesson. In exchange, every lesson that learner books with you afterwards is charged at the ordinary commission rate in 4.2, and if the learner is not satisfied with the trial, Konit refunds them or pays a different tutor for a replacement lesson at Konit’s own cost. Nothing is charged back to you.

The terms of the arrangement:

Your dashboard reports how many learners first reached you through a trial and what you have earned from them since.

4.4 Changing the commission. If we change our commission or any other term of this Agreement that affects what you earn, section 13 applies: at least 15 days’ notice, on a durable medium, sent to you personally. A change notified any other way does not bind you and we will not deduct on the basis of it.

4.5 When you earn it, and when you are paid.

You earn your share the moment you deliver a lesson.

It becomes payable to you seven days after the lesson, provided no learner has raised a problem with that lesson in the meantime. If one has, the amount stays where it is until we have decided the complaint under section 5.3 — and we tell you when a lesson of yours is held, and why. Seven days is the period a learner has to raise a problem under 5.3.

Where the money is while it waits. With Stripe, not in Konit’s bank account. Once it is payable it is credited to your own Stripe account. Konit earns no interest or other return on money waiting to be paid to you.

How it reaches you. To a bank account in your own name. We do not pay third parties, and we do not pay to an account in anyone else’s name.

Changing the seven days is a change to this Agreement, and section 13 applies. It does not apply retroactively to a lesson you have already taught.

4.6 Payment processing is provided by Stripe. Your funds are held by Stripe’s licensed entity, not by Konit, and are transferred to you from there. You will need to complete Stripe’s onboarding and accept its Connected Account Agreement before we can pay you.

4.7 Currency. Prices and payouts are handled in the currencies Stripe supports. Any conversion is performed by Stripe at its published rate. Konit does not set exchange rates and does not profit from conversion.

5. Lessons, cancellations and disputes

5.1 Turn up on time, teach the lesson you agreed, and behave professionally.

5.2 Your own cancellation policy governs late cancellations and no-shows, on both sides. We enforce it as you set it.

5.3 Disputes. A learner has seven days after a lesson to raise a problem with it. If one does, we tell you, we give you the substance of what was said, and we give you a fair chance to respond before we decide anything. We will not identify the learner beyond what you already know, and we will not reveal information that would put them at risk. If we decide in the learner’s favour, we tell you why, and section 12 applies.

5.4 We may refund a learner at our own cost without charging you. Where a refund is charged against your earnings, we tell you the reason and the amount, and you may challenge it under section 12.

6. Recording

Lessons are not recorded unless both you and the learner separately agree in the app before the lesson starts. Either of you may withdraw agreement at any time and recording stops. Konit does not receive or store any recording. Whether you enable recording is not a ranking parameter (see 8.2).

7. Your content and your materials

7.1 You own everything you create. Your lesson materials, exercises, recordings, worksheets and teaching methods remain yours. Konit claims no ownership of them and does not acquire a licence to use them beyond what is needed to deliver your lesson to your learner and to display your profile.

7.2 You grant us a non-exclusive licence to display your profile, photo, introduction video, headline and reviews for the purpose of marketing the platform and your listing on it. You can withdraw this by removing the material or closing your account.

7.3 We do not use your lesson content to train AI models.

7.4 Do not upload material you do not have the right to use.

8. How we rank tutors

8.1 These are the main parameters that determine where your listing appears in search and recommendations, in order of importance:

  1. Fit with what the learner asked for — the language and level they selected, the goal they stated, and the topics on your profile.
  2. Availability in the learner’s chosen time window. Time zone is part of this.
  3. Lesson history on DubloLearn — completed lessons, and how many learners come back for a second lesson. Repeat bookings weigh more than raw volume.
  4. Ratings and recent reviews — weighted towards the last six months, so that you are judged on how you teach now.
  5. Responsiveness — how quickly you reply to messages and booking requests. Declining a request is neutral; ignoring it is not.
  6. Reliability — lessons started on time, lessons completed, and cancellations you make at short notice.
  7. Profile completeness — an introduction video, a written description, stated credentials, and a photo.

8.2 What is not a ranking parameter. Price — we do not rank you higher for charging less, and we do not rank you higher for charging more. Payment to us — there is no paid placement, no promoted listing and no way to buy a better position. Whether you allow lesson recording (section 6), whether you offer trial lessons (section 4.3), and where you live, except insofar as time zone affects availability under 8.1. Konit does not list its own tutors and has no affiliated tutors.

8.3 Where a learner sorts or filters explicitly — by price, availability, rating or specialisation — their choice overrides this ordering.

8.4 If we change these parameters materially, section 13 applies. If you believe your position is wrong or the result of an error, write to support@dublolearn.app under section 12; we will explain how the parameters applied to your listing, though we will not disclose anything that would let anyone game the system.

9. Tax

9.1 You are responsible for your own taxes — income tax, social contributions, and any VAT, GST or sales tax on the tuition you supply. We do not withhold on your behalf unless a law requires us to.

9.2 You will give us the tax documentation we reasonably need — a W-9 if you are a US person, a W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E if you are not — before your first payout.

9.3 Reporting. Where the law requires it, we report information about you and your earnings to tax authorities. If you are resident in the EU, this includes reporting under Council Directive (EU) 2021/514 (DAC7) by 31 January each year. We will tell you what we reported and give you a copy.

9.4 Konit accounts for tax on its own commission. Where a law obliges Konit to collect and remit tax on the tuition itself, we will tell you before we start doing so.

10. What you must not do

Do not: discriminate against or harass anyone; teach while impaired; misrepresent your credentials; solicit personal contact details in order to take a booked lesson off-platform (section 3.4); create multiple accounts; manipulate reviews or rankings; share a learner’s information with anyone; record without consent; or use the platform for anything unlawful.

Our Community Guidelines form part of this Agreement and set this out in more detail.

11. Suspension, restriction and termination

11.1 You may leave at any time, for any reason, by closing your account. Lessons already booked should be honoured or cancelled under your own policy, and we will pay you everything you have earned. You do not owe us notice, a fee, or a reason.

11.2 If we restrict or suspend your listing — including hiding it, limiting bookings, or holding a payout — we will give you a statement of reasons on a durable medium, at the latest when the restriction takes effect. It will say what we did, why, which term or law it was based on, the facts we relied on, and how to challenge it.

11.3 If we terminate this Agreement, we will give you at least 30 days’ notice on a durable medium, with reasons, unless:

11.4 During any notice period you may withdraw your listing and take your learners’ contact details with you to the extent they consent, and you keep access to your data under section 14.

11.5 If we terminate, you are paid everything you have earned, including for lessons already delivered.

12. Challenging a decision

12.1 You can challenge any decision we make about you — a rejected application, a restriction, a suspension, a refund charged against you, a payout hold, a termination — by emailing support@dublolearn.app within six months.

12.2 A person reviews it, never an automated system alone. We tell you the outcome and the reasons in writing.

12.3 Nothing in this Agreement obliges you to mediate before going to court, and nothing here removes any right you have to take the matter to a court or authority in your own country.

13. Changing this Agreement

13.1 We may change this Agreement. If we do, we will give you at least 15 days’ notice before the change takes effect, on a durable medium, sent to you personally by email.

13.2 The notice will set out what is changing and why. If the change is one you cannot reasonably be expected to accept — a commission increase, a change to payout terms, or a new restriction on how you work — the notice period is 30 days.

13.3 You may terminate this Agreement at any time during the notice period, and if you do, the change never applies to you.

13.4 A change never applies retroactively to a lesson already booked or a payout already earned.

13.5 We may act faster only where a law obliges us to, or to address an unforeseen and imminent danger to learners or to the platform. If we do, we will tell you immediately and explain why.

14. Your data

14.1 You can export, at any time from your dashboard: your profile, your lesson history, your earnings and payout records, your reviews, and your messages. In a machine-readable format.

14.2 This survives termination. For a period after your account closes you can still request and receive your data.

14.3 We tell you in our Privacy Policy what we collect from you and your lessons and what we do with it. We do not use your lesson content or your teaching materials to train AI models, and we do not sell your data.

15. Insurance

You are responsible for arranging any insurance appropriate to your work. Konit does not insure you and does not cover you under any policy it holds.

16. What we do not promise

We do not guarantee you any number of learners, bookings, hours or earnings. We may change, suspend or discontinue features of the platform, subject to section 13 where a change materially affects you.

17. Liability

17.1 Nothing here excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that mandatory law does not allow us to exclude.

17.2 Subject to 17.1, and to the fullest extent the law allows, neither of us is liable to the other for indirect or consequential loss, or loss of profit or opportunity, and Konit’s total liability to you for all claims arising out of this Agreement is limited to the greater of (a) the total commission Konit retained from your lessons in the six months before the event giving rise to the claim, and (b) USD 500.

17.3 You are responsible to your learners for the lessons you teach. If a learner brings a claim against Konit arising from your teaching or your conduct, and the claim is not caused by something Konit did wrong, you will cover our reasonable losses and legal costs.

18. Confidentiality and learner data

Treat everything you learn about a learner as confidential. Use it only to teach them. Do not share it, publish it, or use it to market anything. If you keep any learner data yourself, you are a controller of it under applicable data protection law and are responsible for handling it lawfully.

19. Where we offer the Services, and governing law

We pay out in US dollars. We do not direct the Services at the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland.

This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, excluding its conflict-of-laws rules.

If you are established in the European Union, Regulation (EU) 2019/1150 on fairness and transparency for business users of online intermediation services applies to this Agreement regardless of this choice of law, and nothing in this Agreement limits your rights under it. Where a term of this Agreement conflicts with that Regulation, the Regulation prevails and the term does not apply to you.

If mandatory law in the country where you are established gives you rights this Agreement does not, you keep them, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of that country.

20. Disputes

20.1 Tutors established outside the United States

Sections 20.2 to 20.8 do not apply to you.

Please contact us first at support@dublolearn.app and use the process in section 12. If that does not resolve it, you may bring proceedings in the courts of the country where you are established, and we will bring any proceedings against you there. We do not ask you to arbitrate and we do not ask you to give up collective proceedings.

20.2 Tutors resident or established in the United States — talk to us first

Before starting arbitration, you agree to notify us in writing at support@dublolearn.app and give us 60 days to resolve it. We agree to do the same. Limitation periods pause while this runs.

20.3 Agreement to arbitrate

If we cannot resolve it, you and Konit each agree that any dispute between us will be resolved by binding individual arbitration, not in court, except as set out in section 20.5.

This includes, expressly and without limitation, any dispute about your classification — whether you are or should be treated as an employee, worker, or anything other than an independent business — and about anything that would follow from such a classification, including wages, overtime, expenses, benefits, and any claim under the Fair Labor Standards Act or any state or local equivalent.

The arbitration is administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Commercial Arbitration Rules as in effect when the arbitration is commenced (or, if you are an individual, its Consumer Arbitration Rules where those apply), as modified by this section.

The arbitrator, and not any court, decides all questions about the interpretation, applicability, enforceability, unconscionability, revocability or scope of this arbitration agreement, except the waiver in section 20.6, which only a court may decide.

20.4 The Federal Arbitration Act governs

This arbitration agreement is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. §§ 1–16, and the parties agree it shall be so governed and enforced even if you and/or Konit are otherwise exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act. If the FAA is held not to apply for any reason, this arbitration agreement is governed by the arbitration law of the State of Delaware, and remains fully enforceable.

We do not impose any bespoke procedure of our own for mass or coordinated filings. Where many similar claims are filed, they proceed under the administrator’s own rules then in effect.

20.5 What is not covered

Either of us may bring an individual claim in small claims court, or seek an injunction from a court to protect intellectual property.

Nothing in this section applies to a claim alleging sexual assault or sexual harassment. Under 9 U.S.C. § 402 you may bring such a claim in court at your election.

Nothing prevents you from filing a charge with, or participating in an investigation by, any government agency.

20.6 No class or collective proceedings

You and Konit each agree to bring claims only individually, and not as a plaintiff or member of any class, collective, consolidated or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate claims or preside over any class or representative proceeding.

If a court finds this paragraph unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim is severed to court and the rest is arbitrated. If it is found unenforceable in its entirety, this whole section 20 does not apply.

20.7 Costs and venue

Arbitration is in English, and at your election by documents, by videoconference, or in person in the county where you live. Konit pays all administrator and arbitrator fees beyond what you would pay to file in your local court, unless the arbitrator finds the claim frivolous. Konit has 60 days from the due date to pay any arbitration fee it owes, and any shorter deadline in the administrator’s rules is extended to 60 days.

20.8 Opt out, survival and precedence

You may opt out by emailing support@dublolearn.app within 30 days of first accepting this Agreement. Opting out changes nothing else and we will not treat you differently for it.

This section survives termination.

This section applies to disputes arising from any agreement between you and Konit, whenever made, including any later, separate or additional agreement, programme or set of terms — unless that later agreement expressly says, referring to this section by name, that it replaces it.

21. General

Whole agreement. This Agreement, with the Community Guidelines and the Privacy Policy, is the whole agreement between us.

Severance. If part of it is unenforceable, the rest continues.

No waiver. Not enforcing something immediately does not waive it.

Transfer. You may not transfer this Agreement. We may transfer it to a company taking over our business, provided your rights are not reduced.

Notices. To you: by email to your account address. To us: support@dublolearn.app and the postal address above.

Language. English governs; translations are for convenience, except where the law of your country provides otherwise.

Contact. support@dublolearn.app — for anything, including appeals.