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🔴 For the platform this is the most important document in the package. It is the only thing standing between someone else's video and our app being removed from the store.
Version: 2026-08-22 · Effective: to be confirmed
Platform: to be confirmed, to be confirmed, to be confirmed, Austria, to be confirmed.
You: the teacher or organisation running classes on the platform. Below: "the school".
The agreement is concluded when you accept it in the teacher cabinet.
You teach and are paid for it, so you act as a business (Unternehmer). Consumer rules (KSchG, FAGG) do not apply between you and us. They apply in full between the school and its students, and it is your duty to observe them.
Teaching access is not granted automatically upon payment. Every school is approved manually.
We may decline without a detailed explanation where we have doubts about student safety. A refusal can be appealed (§16).
You confirm that you are entitled to carry on the activity you describe and hold any permits your country requires for it.
The description of a course, club or event must state precisely what is included and what is not: how many lessons, how long, live or recorded, for how long access is granted, and what happens when it ends.
A promise that is not in the product is grounds for refunding a student at your expense.
Breathing, meditation and physical practices can cause harm. You must, in the course description and before practice, warn about contraindications known to you and advise consulting a doctor in case of doubt.
Prohibited: promising to cure illness, discouraging medical care, offering practice as a replacement for medication, making diagnoses.
State your training honestly. Do not claim certificates, titles or lineages you do not hold.
Respect boundaries. Practice often involves physical contact and a student in a vulnerable state — use that only for teaching.
Prohibited: sexualised conduct towards students, pressure, using trust to obtain money or services outside classes, demanding data the classes do not require.
This is the most important section of the agreement. Read it in full.
Inside the mobile app you may not invite students to pay anywhere else. The prohibition covers everything the app delivers:
Not allowed: a price with a link, a "buy on the website" button, a domain name, a spoken call in a video to "pay on our site", a QR code, or an access code used to bypass purchase.
The app store's rules (App Store Review Guidelines 3.1.1) forbid an app from steering users to payment outside the store. The rule does not distinguish format: a button, a link, text and speech in a video are equally a breach.
The sanction, however, is asymmetric: the store removes the entire app, not your course. One sentence in one welcome video shuts the service down for every school and every student at once. "We did not know" is not an argument — a platform is required to police third-party content.
This prohibition is therefore not bureaucracy and not platform greed. We do not charge you for staying quiet about your website. We ask you to stay quiet about it in one specific place, because the cost of a breach is shared.
Outside the app's screens there are no restrictions: email to a student, Telegram, Instagram, your own site, a personal conversation, an announcement at an in-person class. There you may talk about payment however you like, link wherever you like, name any price. The store's rules expressly allow this, and we do not narrow it.
A live conversation in chat is also your speech, not an app mechanism. If a student asks where to pay and you answer in the conversation, that is not a breach.
The line runs here: as soon as the answer becomes pre-configured — a pinned message, a template, a bot auto-reply, a button — it becomes a feature of the app, and that is a breach.
If you later have your own branded app, a course of yours shown also in the shared app may not be sold there through your channels. In the shared app it is either sold through the store on the standard terms, or not sold at all and visible only to those who already have access.
The store's rules allow different product types to be sold differently. A product type is therefore not a cosmetic label but a legal statement.
| Type | What it actually is |
|---|---|
course |
recorded lessons and materials |
club |
subscription: a space, live group classes, recordings |
live_group |
a single group live class online |
session_1to1 |
a class one to one, in real time, two participants |
retreat |
an event in the physical world: retreat, in-person class |
You must choose the type that matches reality.
🔴 It is specifically prohibited to label a group class as session_1to1, or an online class as retreat. Those two types are the only ones where payment is allowed inside the app. The temptation is obvious — which is exactly why those two go through manual review.
If we find a mismatch, we:
Losses to the platform caused by removal of the app due to your misclassification are recoverable from you (§14).
If you made an honest mistake, tell us first. We treat self-correction before detection differently from something we find ourselves.
By entering into this agreement you consent to the content you publish being checked:
What is checked is what you publish for everyone: welcome video, descriptions of the school and its products, free previews, cover images, pinned announcements.
You give consent to both kinds of checking at once, but in practice only the manual one runs today: speech transcription is not switched on yet. We say this plainly so that you understand both the scope of your consent and the current state of affairs.
Private and group conversations are not scanned. The platform cannot read encrypted rooms, and we do not intend to change that.
Where automated message checking operates in a room, the room is marked and participants can see it.
Appeals are answered within to be confirmed days. Details in document 7.
Automation gets things wrong. The word "payment" in a lesson about one's relationship with money is not a breach. That is precisely why the decision rests with a human, and why a refusal must point to a specific place in the material.
| Channel | Seller to the student under the contract | Fees |
|---|---|---|
| Website / web cabinet (Stripe) | The school | payment provider at its own rate + to be confirmed% to the platform |
| App store (in-app purchase) | to be confirmed | store 15–30% + to be confirmed% to the platform |
| Card payment in the app (retreat, 1:1) | The school | payment provider + to be confirmed% to the platform |
| Cash / direct transfer | The school, outside the platform | 0 |
🔴 The table answers "who owes the student", not "who pays the VAT". These are different questions, and the second one is decided by tax law, not by our agreement — see §10.
Web channel. It is you who owes the student: you deliver the service, you handle refunds, you answer for the description and the quality. Money arrives in your account at the payment provider and the platform's share is withheld automatically. Which of us issues the VAT invoice — see §10: that depends not on our preference but on how the law characterises a sale made through a platform.
App store. to be confirmed is the seller to the student — the store works no other way: it pays only the owner of the developer account. You receive your remuneration from us under this agreement. Three consequences worth knowing in advance:
Your taxes are your responsibility. We are not a tax agent and do not advise.
🔴 VAT in the web channel is an open question, and we will not pretend it is settled. The natural expectation is "the school sells, so the school pays the VAT". But EU law has a deemed supplier rule for digital services sold through a platform (Art. 9a of Regulation 282/2011): where certain signs of platform involvement are present, the platform — not the person delivering the service — is treated as the supplier for VAT purposes. Those signs, namely taking part in the payment, enabling access to the service, and setting the general terms of sale, are at least partly present in our arrangement. A further layer of difficulty is that the rule is written for electronically supplied services: a recorded course plainly is one, whereas a live class with a teacher, or an in-person retreat, probably is not.
Until a tax adviser has given an opinion, the following applies:
This is honest uncertainty rather than an oversight on our part: the cost of getting it wrong is VAT assessed on the whole turnover, and we prefer to say such things out loud.
Your material stays yours. We claim no rights in it and do not use it outside the platform.
You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence for the term of this agreement to: store, transcode, segment for streaming, generate previews and cover images, show it to students who have access, and show free excerpts in the school's storefront.
You may remove material at any time. But if students have bought it, you must give them 30 days' notice and refund the unused period — or leave access open until the paid period ends.
You confirm that you hold the rights to everything you publish, including background music.
Procedure and retention: recording-retention.md. Your duties from it:
For the data a school processes for its own purposes (who is admitted, who has access to what, communication), the school and the platform are joint controllers (GDPR Art. 26). Allocation of duties:
| What | Who does it |
|---|---|
| Informing students (privacy policy) | Platform |
| Technical security, storage, deletion | Platform |
| Answering data subject requests | Platform, with your assistance |
| Deciding who is admitted and what is opened | School |
| Lawfulness of the school's own mailings | School |
You are prohibited from: exporting student contacts for use outside the platform without their separate consent, passing them to third parties, or using them to advertise services other than your own.
If a breach occurs on your side, tell us within 24 hours: the notification deadline to the supervisory authority is 72 hours, and it is shared.
You are responsible for your content, your promises and your conduct with students.
🔴 You indemnify the platform against losses arising from:
The platform is liable to you for intent and gross negligence without limitation; for slight negligence up to the remuneration we received from you over the last 12 months. Liability for loss of life or damage to health is not limited.
Suspension means: sales off, material hidden, and students' access to what they already paid for preserved while the matter is examined.
Other breaches: a warning describing the issue and a period to fix it (at least 7 days). Not fixed — suspension.
Any decision — refusal of admission, rejection of material, suspension of sales, termination — can be appealed.
An appeal does not suspend a decision made under §15.1 — there the risk is too great to wait.
The agreement is open-ended. Changes are announced 30 days in advance; disagreement gives you the right to terminate before they take effect.
Changes required by the app store or by law may be introduced faster — in that case we explain the reason and the timing.
The platform intermediates between you and students, so Regulation (EU) 2019/1150 (platform-to-business relations) applies to our relationship. From it:
The Regulation does not require an internal complaint-handling system or named mediators from small enterprises; we operate an appeals procedure anyway (§16).
Austrian law. Disputes: the court where to be confirmed is established (business to business). Before court — correspondence at to be confirmed.
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