Terms of Use
The following terms and conditions ("Terms") apply to your use of the Tutoring Company introductory and other services relating to tutoring services (the "Tutoring Company Service" including any website available via an online platform ("Platform") which is owned and maintained by LiteLearn Ltd. ("Tutoring Company"; "we" or "us"), and the actual and prospective tutors ("Tutors") and actual and prospective users of tutors ("Clients") have to use a third party to facilitate payments to the Tutors by the users of Clients.
Users (Tutors and/or Clients) are referred to in these Terms as "you"/"your". Please read these Terms carefully. By using the Tutoring Company Service you agree that you have read, understood and agree to these Terms (each as amended from time to time). If you do not agree to these Terms you must not use the Tutoring Company Platform or use the Tutoring Company Service.
1. Introduction
2. Description of Tutoring Company Service
Tutoring Company, when providing the Tutoring Company Service as an introducer such that the Client and Tutor will be introduced to each other for the purposes of a direct supply of tuition by the Tutor to the Client, is acting as an employment agency. In relation to this:
- the Client has the obligation to pay the Tutor for the Tutor services;
- Tutoring Company may make available to the parties a service by which the Client can pay the Tutor and the Tutor can collect payments from the Client. Such a service shall be optional with no obligation on any party to select it; and
- additional terms and conditions are visible under Terms of Business and will apply in relation to the Client's relationship with the Tutoring Company where the Tutoring Company introduces a Tutor for any Assignment to the Client.
Tutoring Company, when providing the Tutoring Company Service as a contractual intermediary via which the Tutor is paid, is acting as an employment business. In relation to this:
- the Client has the obligation to pay Tutoring Company for the Tutor services and the Tutoring Company has the obligation then to pay the Tutor; and
- additional terms and conditions will apply in relation to the Client's relationship with the Tutoring Company where the Tutoring Company introduces a Tutor for any Assignment to the Client. Please contact us at support@litelearn.co.uk for more information.
3. Registration
4. Use of Tutoring Company Service
By using any Tutoring Company Platform and/or the Tutoring Company Service, you agree not to:
- use the Tutoring Company Platform, the Tutoring Company Service, or any information contained therein in any way that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory, libellous, or racially, sexually, religiously, or otherwise unlawfully discriminatory, objectionable or offensive (including in relation to discrimination laws relating to disability, sex, sexual orientation, race, age, religion or otherwise);
- use the Tutoring Company Service for any unlawful purpose or for the promotion of illegal activities;
- harass, abuse or harm another person or group, or make any attempt so to do;
- use another person's User Account without permission;
- provide false or inaccurate information when registering a User Account, using the Tutoring Company Service or communicating with other users;
- post any assignment where there is a risk to the health and safety of any Tutor;
- except where allowed by applicable law, post jobs which require the Tutor to provide information relating to his/her: (i) racial or ethnic origin, (ii) political beliefs, (iii) philosophical or religious beliefs, (iv) membership of a trade union, (v) physical or mental health, (vi) sexual life, (vii) the commission of criminal offences or proceedings, or (vii) age;
- attempt to re-register with the Tutoring Company Service if we have terminated your User Account for any reason;
- interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper functioning of the Tutoring Company Service;
- make any automated use of the system, or take any action that we deem to impose or to potentially impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our servers or network infrastructure;
- bypass any measures we take to restrict access to the Tutoring Company Service or use any software, technology, or device to scrape, spider, or crawl the Tutoring Company Service or harvest or manipulate data;
- use the communication systems provided by or contacts through the Tutoring Company Service for any commercial solicitation purposes; or
- publish or link to malicious content intended to damage or disrupt another user's browser or computer.
5. User Content
6. Assignment requests and contract creation
Contract formation for employment business Assignments: Where a Tutor has been Introduced to a Client and the Tutor and Client indicate or have indicated via the Tutoring Company Platform or otherwise in such fashion as is from time to time specified by the Tutoring Company that:
- (in the case of the Tutor) the Tutor will undertake the relevant Assignment for the Client via the Tutoring Company (acting as a contractual intermediary and employment business), and
- (in the case of the Client) the Client will engage the Tutoring Company to supply the services of the Tutor for the Assignment with the Tutoring Company acting as a contractual intermediary and employment business.
then you agree that a contract relating to an Assignment will be deemed to have been entered into:
- by you as a Client with Tutoring Company on the terms detailed herein and any other terms negotiated pursuant to paragraph 2.4 above.
- by you as a Tutor on the terms detailed herein and any other terms negotiated pursuant to paragraph 2.4 above.
Contract formation for employment agency Assignments: Where a Tutor has been Introduced to a Client and the Tutor and Client indicate or have indicated via the Tutoring Company Platform or otherwise in such fashion as is from time to time specified by the Tutoring Company that:
- (in the case of the Tutor) the Tutor will undertake the relevant Assignment for the Client with the Tutor making a direct supply to and contract with the Client (with the Tutoring Company acting as an introducer and employment agency and not as a contractual or payment intermediary), and
- (in the case of the Client) the Client will engage the Tutor to supply the services of the Tutor for the Assignment with the Client engaging the Tutor directly (with the Tutoring Company acting as an introducer and employment agency and not as a contractual or payment intermediary).
then you agree that a contract relating to an Assignment will be deemed to have been entered into:
- by you as a Client with Tutoring Company on the terms detailed in the Terms of Business,
- by you as a Client with the Tutor on the terms detailed in the Tutor-Client Contract or such other terms as you may agree with the Tutor
- by you as a Tutor with the Client on the terms detailed in the Tutor-Client Contract or such other terms as you may agree with the Client.
An "Introduction" for these purposes means the earlier of the following events:
- the Tutoring Company supplying to the Client, orally or in writing (including via any online platform), any information sufficient to identify a Tutor, or
- the Client interviewing the Tutor in person or otherwise.
7. Optional payment arrangements
8. Tutor checks
By registering a User Account to use the Tutoring Company Service as a Tutor you consent to Tutoring Company's use of your information, including the passing of it onto third parties, so that so far as reasonably possible the accuracy of the information can be checked by or for Clients ("Tutor Checks"). Tutoring Company will not seek your further consent prior to any person carrying out the Tutor Checks and you acknowledge that certain sensitive information may be included in the Tutor Checks. The information that Tutoring Company will collect is set out below:
| Tutor Check | How information is collected from Tutor |
|---|---|
| Experience and qualifications | Tutor provides details when filling in the online application form. |
| References | Tutor provides details when filling in the online application form. |
| Passport / ID/ Work Permit | Tutor brings the original document to the first interview with Tutoring Company and then Tutoring Company uploads the scans onto the User Account. |
9. Liability
In no event shall we, persons who act on our behalf, and/or persons we enter into contracts with be liable for any of the following types of loss or damage arising under or in relation to these Terms (whether in contract, tort (including, without limitation, negligence) or otherwise):
- any loss of profits, goodwill, business, contracts, revenue or anticipated savings even if we are advised of the possibility of such loss of profits, goodwill, business, contracts, revenue or anticipated savings;
- any loss or corruption of data; or
- any loss or damage whatsoever which does not stem directly from, or which results only as a consequence of, any loss or damage caused by our breach of these Terms.
10. Indemnity
11. Term
12. Changes to these Terms
13. Privacy
The Tutor consents to the Tutoring Company and the Client:
- processing the Tutor's personal data for purposes connected with the provision or otherwise in contemplation of providing the Tutoring Services, such as the collation of reviews on the Tutor, contract administration; and for any purposes connected with the performance of this Agreement; and
- exporting and/or processing the Tutor's personal data in jurisdictions outside the European Economic Area for purposes connected with the performance of this Agreement.