By using the Parental Services, including by uploading a “Course” (a pre-recorded instructional video or set of videos offered to Learners via the Parental Services), or other Educator-related content to any Parental Site or other Services, maintaining your Parental account, as well as if you receive payment from Parental for an Educator-related activity, you agree to these Parental Educator Rules and Requirements (“Rules and Requirements”), which are in addition to the Parental Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. To the extent the Parental Terms of Use are inconsistent with these Rules and Requirements, these Rules and Requirements will control. Any capitalized terms that are not defined in these Rules and Requirements are defined as specified in the Terms of Use. In these Rules and Requirements, the words “including” and “include” mean “including, but not limited to.” Use of the term “you” or similar words (like “your”) refers in each instance hereunder to an Educator.

Parental reserves the right to terminate, cancel, suspend, or modify any service or program, or the Rules and Requirements, at any time, in its sole discretion. If a significant change is made to the Rules and Requirements, we will provide reasonable notice either by email, [by posting a notice in the Educator Account,] or otherwise by posting on the Parental Services. By accessing the Services at any time after such changes, you are agreeing to those changes. You are advised to check the Rules and Requirements from time to time for any updates or changes that may impact you.

1. Educator Content

As between you and Parental and to the extent permitted by applicable law, you retain ownership over and are responsible for any and all video, audio, text, photos, pictures, graphics, comments, and all other content, data, files, or information that you upload, store, transmit, submit, exchange, offer for sale, or make available to or via the Services (“Your Content”) except where the content is created on behalf of Parental as a “work-made-for-hire,” at which point the content is owned by Parental and is not Your Content. You agree that Your Content remains your sole responsibility. Your Content includes any content you have previously uploaded, stored, transmitted, submitted, exchanged, offered for sale, or made available to or via the Parental platform.

2. Educator Content Requirements and Representations

You will not upload, store, distribute, send, transmit, display, perform, offer for sale, make available, or otherwise communicate to the public any content (including any of Your Content) that you do not hold the necessary rights to. In particular, any unauthorized use of copyright protected works within Your Content may constitute an infringement of third-party rights and is strictly prohibited. Any such infringement may result, among other things, in removal of Your Content from the Service, termination of your access to the Service, and coverage by you of any resulting claims or damages.

You represent and warrant to Parental as follows:

Your Content is original work to you, or you have obtained all rights, licenses, consents, and permissions necessary in order for Your Content to be used as part of the Service, including the right to upload, reproduce, store, transmit, distribute, share, publicly display, publicly perform, offer for sale, make available (including for watching offline), otherwise communicate to the public, and sublicense Your Content.

To maintain all applicable federal, state and local licenses, certifications, permits, and clearances without restriction, required to provide the Content.

Your Content and its availability on the Service does not and will not infringe or violate the rights of any third party, including any intellectual property rights, performers’ rights, rights of privacy or publicity, or any confidentiality-related restrictions.

You have obtained all necessary consents, permissions, and/or releases from anyone appearing in Your Content in order to include their name, voice, performance, or likeness in Your Content or to otherwise make available Your Content on the Service. You confirm that you will retain all original releases and maintain complete and accurate release records and shall share any such documents with Parental upon request.

If Your Content includes third-party design elements, including fonts, clipart, sprites, vectors, and brush tools, the end user license agreement, terms of service, or the equivalent license held by you allows you to incorporate such elements in Your Content, and to license Your Content to Parental on the terms herein.

If Your Content contains music, lyrics, and/or sound recordings, you own or have acquired all rights to use such music, lyrics, and/or sound recordings from the owner of the copyright of such music, lyrics, and/or sound recordings sufficient to permit the publication of Your Content Parental’s platform.

To the extent that Your Content contains identifiable third parties or landmark(s), you represent that you have obtained written consent and/or model and property release(s) of those third parties or landmarks pictured, to use such third party’s or landmark’s name or likeness and grant Parental all of the license rights necessary to display Your Content on a Parental’s platform. You also warrant that each such third party has released you from any liability that may arise in relation to such use.

Your Content does not and will not create any liability on the part of Parental, its subsidiaries, affiliates, successors, and assigns, and their respective employees, agents, directors, officers, and/or shareholders.

Notwithstanding the fact that Parental has no legal obligation to monitor the content on the Service, Parental reserves the right to block, remove, or delete any content at any time, and to limit or restrict access to any content, for any reason and without liability, including if we have reason to believe that such content does or might infringe the rights of any third party, has been uploaded or posted in violation of these Rules and Requirements, our Terms of Use, or applicable law, or is otherwise unacceptable to Parental, in its sole discretion. Parental reserves the right to remove Your Content from the Service, suspend or terminate your access to the Service, and/or pursue all legal remedies if we believe that any of Your Content infringes another person's rights or violates any law, rule, or regulation.

3. Parental Intellectual Property

In connection with Your Content and your capacity as an Educator, and subject to the requirements below, you may use our trademarks, including the Parental name or any of the Parental trademarks, logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand features, as well as the same for any other Parental brands (“Trademarks”) or other materials we provide to you, such as the Parental opening animation sequence, (together with the Trademarks, “Parental IP” or “IP”) solely as we authorize you to do so in writing and solely in compliance with the following.

You must:

use only copies of our IP that we specifically make available to you, as detailed in any guidelines we may publish, without modification;
use our IP only in the creation or promotion of a Course or other Content that you upload to our Service and that is created for the benefit of Parental and its Learners; and
immediately comply if we request that you make any changes or discontinue use.

You must not:

use our IP in a misleading or disparaging way;
use our IP in a way that implies that we endorse, sponsor, or approve of Your Content or services; or
use our IP in a way that violates applicable law or in connection with an obscene, indecent, offensive, or unlawful topic or material.

In the event that you are no longer an Educator on Parental and your Courses have been removed from the Services, you may no longer use Parental IP. You shall not use Parental IP in connection with any further activities or instructional videos or related promotion thereof outside Parental’s Service.

4. The Rights Educators Grant to Parental

By agreeing to these Rules and Requirements, and by submitting Your Content to the Services or offering Your Content for sale on the Services, you grant to Parental a worldwide, perpetual, fully sublicensable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, distribute, access, view, crop, resize, index, analyze, categorize, archive, copy, license, transmit, broadcast, publicly perform and publicly display, prepare derivative works incorporating, sell, advertise, and market any of Your Content in any form, medium, or technology, including any and all media now known or hereafter devised, for any lawful purpose, including the distribution of Your Content to Parental customers and partners, to optimize the performance and operation of the Services, and/or to develop new features and products on or for the Service. You acknowledge and agree that the foregoing license rights are granted on a royalty-free basis.

You also grant Parental a worldwide, perpetual, fully sublicensable, royalty-free, non-exclusive right to use your name, display name, image, likeness, and performance in connection with Your Content and other information, any features or functionality related to those materials or other information, as well as in connection with Parental’s marketing and promotional activities and the sublicensing of Your Content in any and all media now known or hereafter devised without the payment of any compensation to you other than as described in the Educator Payment and Educator Referral sections below.

You authorize Parental to sublicense these rights to Your Content to third parties, including to Learners or other users or viewers directly and through third parties such as partners, resellers, distributors, affiliate sites, and deal sites, which may include the use of your name, display name, image, likeness, performance, and/or Your Content for marketing and promotional activities carried out by such third party. You also give permission to Parental to add, modify, or remove information related to Your Content in order to manage and license Your Content. This includes the right to add captions or otherwise modify Your Content to ensure accessibility.

Parental, in the exercise of its discretion, may refrain from any or all of the foregoing without any liability to you. Parental may advertise and/or market Your Content in any and all media now known or hereafter devised, including on social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, X, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, and Vimeo as well as similar sites and/or applications now known or hereinafter developed.

Unless otherwise agreed, you have the right to remove all or any portion of Your Content from the Services and/or opt-out of the inclusion of Your Content in any sublicensing programs that Parental enters into with third-party partners. To request such removal or opt-out, you must email Parental at educators@getparental.com. Your email must state your intention to remove Your Content and/or opt out and must specify the content that is related to your request, including a link to where it can be found on the Services. Except as otherwise agreed, Parental will typically require at least 120 days to comply with your request and Your Content may remain on the Services and be included for sublicensing purposes in the interim. Notwithstanding any such request, Parental’s right to use Your Content for marketing purposes shall survive termination or such removal, and any rights given to Learners before the removal of Your Content, will continue in accordance with the terms of those licenses.

You will continue to be paid, where applicable, until Your Content is removed, including during the period after you request removal or opt-out, but before we are able to effectuate that removal or opt-out, and we may continue distributing or marketing Your Content during this period.

5. Rules for Educators

(A) Becoming a Parental Educator

Absent permission from Parental otherwise, all Educators who have not previously published a Course on the Service or offered other content or services on the Services will be required to create an Educator user account on our Service and pass an Identity Verification(defined below) in order to have the ability to publish a Course or Courses on Parental’s Services. By submitting an application to Parental, you give your consent to Parental and its third-party identity verification vendor to request identity and background information about you in connection with your use of the Services as an Educator (an “Identity Verification”) and you give your consent for any individual, company, firm, corporation, or public agency to divulge any and all information, verbal or written, pertaining to you in connection with your use of the Services as an Educator, to Parental or its agents. This Identity Verification may include, but is not limited to, the following areas: verification of your identity, full name, date of birth, social security number, social security number, credit reports, current residence; government-issued identifications; IP address; biometric data, including a picture provided by you; and any other public records. The Identity Verification may be conducted by an outside agency hired by Parental and Parental reserves the right, but not an obligation, to conduct additional Identity Verifications or on an annual basis, as needed. Approval of your application to teach on Parental is not guaranteed. Parental will determine, in its sole discretion, whether you are eligible to publish content to a Parental platform or offer other content or services, without liability to you. Any information you include in your application will be processed in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Additional terms may be shared with you as part of the application process. By completing and submitting an application, you agree to those terms.

(B) Rules of Conduct

When you publish a Course on the Service, you agree that:

We set the price of the Educator subscription to all or any part of the Service, and that price is subject to change, including with respect to taxes, all at our sole discretion;
You set the price of your Course or Courses published on the Service, and that Parental reserves the right to request that you alter the price of your Course or Courses at any time and for any reason.
You will honor any enrollments through the Service or any related platforms at the price and time listed in the Service, and will not refuse enrollments or participation by any Learner for any discriminatory or other illegal reason;
You will provide and maintain accurate account information;
Courses or other content posted are publicly available to be viewed and accessed by any Learner, unless otherwise specifically designated by Parental;
You are qualified to teach the Courses or offer the content that you list on the Services and that you will at all times conduct yourself in a professional manner and in compliance with all applicable laws;
Learners on the Service may have the ability to post a review about (1) you; (2) any Course or other content you publish; (3) any service that you offer on the Services; or (4) any content or other items you offer for sale. We cannot control the contents of any such reviews, and will not be held responsible for any information or opinions that a user may include in any such review;
You may choose to remove material from your Course or other content and will continue to own such content, but we will continue to have the right to use that content and to provide it to Learners who have paid for or enrolled in your Course; and
To the extent any content is created on behalf of Parental as a work-made-for-hire (for example, content for our Guidebook or Help pages), you grant us full ownership of that content. It is at our sole discretion to remove, add, or edit such content.

You also agree that you will not:

Submit any content to, or offer any content for sale on, the Service that violates, plagiarizes, misappropriates, or infringes the rights of third parties, including, without limitation, copyright, trademark rights, rights of privacy or publicity, confidential information, or any other third-party material, or material that is subject to other third party rights, unless you have permission from the rightful rights holder in such material;
Submit or offer for sale any content that is abusive, libelous, defamatory, that promotes or incites violence, terrorism, illegal acts, or hatred on the grounds of race, ethnicity, cultural identity, religious belief, disability, gender, identity, or sexual orientation, or is otherwise objectionable in Parental’s reasonable determination;
Post or transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, junk mail, spam, or any other form of solicitation through the Services or to any user;
Use the Service for business other than providing teaching or related services to Learners;
Use the Service to provide legal or financial advice;
Use the Service to provide medical advice or advice that is otherwise personalized, actionable guidance intended to diagnose, treat, manage, or prevent a specific disease in a specific individual or targeted group.
Use the Service to conduct telehealth appointments;
Use any data or other information you receive about Learners for any purpose other than providing your services to those Learners on the Service;
Employ any techniques or make use of any services designed to misrepresent the popularity of Your Content on the Service, or to misrepresent your activity on the Service, including by the use of bots, botnets, scripts, apps, plugins, extensions, or other automated means to register accounts, log in, add followers to your account, play content other than for occasional testing or debugging purposes, follow or unfollow other users, send messages, post comments, leave reviews, or otherwise to act on your behalf, particularly where such activity occurs in a multiple or repetitive fashion.

Parental reserves the right, but is under no obligation, to delete any Course or other content at any time and for any reason.

6. No Affiliation

As an Educator, you shall always represent yourself as being independent from Parental, and no law, agreement or other arrangement that has the effect of conferring benefits to officers or employees of Parental shall be applicable to you in connection with the Services rendered pursuant to these Terms. Nothing herein shall be construed to create any partnership, joint venture, or agency relationship of any kind between you and Parental.

7. Conflict of Interest and Non-disparagement

Educator represents and warrants that it has no business, professional, personal, or other interest that would conflict with its performance of their obligations under these Terms. If any such actual or potential conflict of interest arises, Educator shall immediately inform Parental. If, in the reasonable judgment of Parental, such conflict poses a material conflict with the performance of Educator’s obligations hereunder, Parental may terminate the Content immediately upon written notice to Learner and Educator. Educator shall not directly or indirectly, make any statement, oral or written, or perform any act or omission which disparages Parental, its employees or partners, or which is or could be detrimental in any material respect to the reputation or goodwill of Parental.

8. Confidential Information

Parental and Educator (either, when receiving Confidential Information, a “Receiving Party”) may have access to proprietary, private or otherwise confidential information of Learners, Educators, or Parental (each, when disclosing Confidential Information, a “Disclosing Party”). Confidential Information shall mean all non-public information or material that is disclosed during the purchase or use of the Services or whose proprietary or confidential content should be reasonably obvious from the context or nature of the material, including, without limitation, financial or other sensitive information relating to the Learner, Educator, or Parental, whether or not labeled as “Confidential” and regardless of the method of transmission or the media in which the same is stored or recorded (“Confidential Information”). Confidential Information does not include any information, or any portion of any document based thereon, that: (i) was known to the Receiving Party at the time of its disclosure by the Disclosing Party; (ii) was or becomes generally available to the public other than as a result of a disclosure by the Receiving Party; (iii) has already been or is hereafter independently acquired or developed by the Receiving Party without violating these Terms; or (iv) was or becomes available to the Receiving Party on a non-confidential basis from a source other than the Dis-closing Party, provided that such source is not, to Receiving Party's knowledge, subject to a confidentiality obligation with respect to such information. Except as permitted herein, the Receiving Party will not at any time or in any manner, either directly or indirectly, use for the personal benefit of the Receiving Party, or divulge, disclose, or communicate in any manner any Confidential Information; however, the Receiving Party may disclose all or any part of the Confidential Information to its employees and agents on a need-to-know basis. If the Receiving Party is compelled to disclose all or any part of the Confidential Information in any judicial or administrative proceeding, it may do so without liability under this Agreement so long as it uses reasonable efforts to obtain assurances that confidential treatment will be accorded to such information and provides prior written notice to the Disclosing Party. Receiving Party agrees that unauthorized disclosure of Confidential Information may cause irreparable injury to a Disclosing Party and consents to the award of equitable relief to prevent or halt such disclosure.

9. Educator Payments

When you offer a Course on the Service, you will be eligible to receive royalty payments, also referred to as payouts in a regular, batched cadence. The amount of payment you receive from royalty payments is based on total sales of your Course during a given time period, currently three (3) business days, less fees imposed by our payment processor and any applicable taxes. Additional details on how royalty payments are calculated or to dispute a calculation, can be requested by sending a request to educators@getparental.com. The total payout amount for time period will be posted in your Stripe Account. This policy is subject to change at Parental’s sole discretion as Parental is actively analyzing Educator feedback related to our payout and payments policies

In order for you to earn and be paid royalty payments during a given time period (“Educator Earnings”), you must be in compliance with these Rules and Requirements, the Terms of Use, and the Governing Documents. Parental will pay out the Educator Earnings for a particular period on or around every three (3) business days , beginning with the date of your first Course sale (provided the conditions above are met).

10. Payment for Additional Programs

Parental offers now and/or may in the future offer several additional opportunities in which you may be eligible to participate. These opportunities may be able to help increase your revenue potential on Parental. These opportunities include: engaging with Learners on the platform; participating in Parental-sponsored contests or giveaways; assisting other Parental Educators in various capacities; or via sublicensing or distribution opportunities. These additional opportunities, or other opportunities that may be developed in the future, may be limited to certain Educators or groups of Educators at Parental’s sole discretion, and as a result, the earning opportunities for Educators on the platform may differ from Educator to Educator. For more information, email Parental at educators@getparental.com.

11. How Payments Work

Parental pays all Educator Earnings and other payments (together, “Parental Educator Payments”) in U.S. dollars (USD) regardless of the currency with which the applicable transaction was made. Parental is not responsible for any foreign currency conversion fees, wiring fees, or any other processing fees. For us to pay you for any Parental Educator Payments, you must provide Parental or our payment processing vendor with accurate payment information and be registered with a payment processor or platform that Parental requires you to register with, be in good standing, and must keep us informed of the correct email associated with your account. You must also provide any identifying information or tax documentation (such as a W-9 or W-8) necessary for payment of any amounts due, and you agree that we have the right to withhold applicable taxes from your payments if required.

If you do not register fully with the required payment processor or do not provide us with the necessary information and documentation, you may not be able to earn any Parental Educator Payments until you meet those requirements. Any Parental Educator Payment you might have earned before meeting those requirements may be forfeited. We reserve the right to withhold payments or impose other penalties if we or our required payment processor do not receive proper identifying information or tax documentation from you. You understand and agree that you are ultimately responsible for any taxes on your income.

Information that you supply to a payment processor (i.e., Stripe) or related platform is not stored by us or within our control, and is subject to such platform’s own privacy policies and terms and conditions. Parental is not responsible for fees, if any, charged by such third parties, or other payment processors. Parental disclaims all liability with regard to any payment processors and related platforms used by Parental. You have 30 days from the time at which a payment was or should have been made to report any discrepancies. After 30 days, you have waived your right to raise a dispute concerning that payment.

You agree that Parental’s sole responsibility is to process payments and pay Educators pursuant to the current payout model. Parental is not party to any transaction between any Learner and/or Educator and cannot be held responsible for any issues arising from any such transaction. Parental reserves the right to withhold or cancel payments to you if we deem, in our sole judgment and absolute discretion, that you engaged in behavior that violated any part of these Rules and Requirements, our Terms of Use or any other Governing Document.

If Parental makes an overpayment of Educator Earnings or other compensation to you for any reason, Parental shall have the right to deduct the amount of such overpayment from your accrued Parental Educator Payments or to demand the immediate repayment of such overpaid Educator Earnings or other sums. Parental may also recoup sums provided to you in connection with refunds or chargebacks by deducting applicable sums credited to your account. You are responsible for determining the refund policy for your Course or Courses and for communicating that policy clearly in writing in your Course listing and/or Educator Profile on the Service. Parental will make reasonable efforts to resolve refund requests according to your written preference(s) if a Learner requests a refund for your Course or Courses. If Parental is unable to locate or otherwise identify your refund preference(s), Parental will make a determination based upon its sole discretion, with Parental’s standard approach being to deny all refund requests except in the event that a technical error or Service malfunction prevents a Learner from taking a Course. Parental reserves the right to deny a refund request for any reason.

If a Learner that has purchased Your Content or a service from you files a dispute with their bank regarding your content or offering, we may choose to fight the dispute on your behalf, in our sole discretion, though we may request information from you to assist us in doing so. You will be fully and solely responsible for the amount of the dispute, as well as a $25.00 USD dispute fee. These amounts will be withdrawn from and/or credited against any Parental Educator Payments that you otherwise would have received, including future Parental Educator Payments. If at the time of the dispute there are not enough funds connected with your Parental Educator Payments to cover the fee and the disputed amounts, we may pull funds from your connected bank account or credit card, if any. Parental may deactivate and/or remove from the Services Educators who generate significant numbers of such disputes, at our sole discretion.

12. Deleting an Educator Account

Instructions on how to delete your Educator account are available on our Help pages. 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 Learners have previously enrolled in or purchased Your Content, your name and that content may remain accessible to those Learners after your account is deleted. If you need help or encounter difficulty deleting your account, you can contact us at educators@getparental.com.

If you would like Your Content removed from any Parental-related sublicensing arrangement, please see Section I.C. above and follow the instructions specified there.

Educator Rules and Regulations