Instructor agreement and onboarding terms

“Platform” means the ataa learning platform at ataa.ai and its applications, operated by ataa.ai FZ-LLC, registered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (“the Company”). “Instructor” is any natural person whose instructor account has been created and approved. “Academy” is the storefront an instructor builds on the platform for their courses and community.

This agreement governs the Company–Instructor relationship exclusively and forms an integral part of the general Terms of Use and Privacy Policy published on the platform. You are an independent contractor: this agreement creates no employment, partnership or agency.

• Instructors must be at least eighteen (18) years old and have full legal capacity to contract.
• Mandatory documents: (a) a valid passport or national/residency ID scan, and (b) a bank-issued IBAN letter or certificate proving the account is in the instructor's own name at a bank within the GCC, together with the IBAN itself in writing.
• Selling is not enabled and no earnings are released until these documents are complete and verified.
• All applications go through KYC review within twenty-four working hours; the Company may request further documents or decline any application without stating reasons.
• The bank account must be in the instructor's own name; third-party accounts and intermediary wallets are not accepted.

• All pricing, payments and settlement on the platform are in US dollars only.
• Commission is calculated on the amount actually collected after discounts, at the rate in force for the instructor's package at the time the transaction executes; package changes never apply retroactively.
• UAE VAT (5%) is added to the platform's commission and to subscription fees, itemised on invoices and statements.
• Payment-processing fees are deducted from the transaction value per the approved provider's tariff.
• Upgrades take effect immediately on a pro-rata basis; downgrades take effect at the end of the current billing cycle.

• The instructor's net share of each sale enters a pending balance, then clears to available after seven (7) days covering the start of the refund window.
• Payouts are executed in a weekly batch every Tuesday to the registered IBAN, with a fifty (50) dollar minimum; anything below the threshold rolls into the following week.
• All amounts pass through the platform's immutable double-entry ledger. Collecting payments from students off-platform is a material breach warranting termination.
• Refunds approved under the refund policy (14 days, at most 20% watched) are deducted from the instructor's balance with commission reversed automatically and symmetrically.
• In the event of a chargeback, an equivalent amount is frozen pending resolution of the dispute.
• Instructors are responsible for their own tax obligations in their country of residence.

The instructor retains full intellectual property rights in their content and grants the Company a non-exclusive worldwide licence, for the term of this agreement, to host, stream, market and excerpt that content within the platform and its promotional channels.

• The instructor warrants that they own the content outright or hold the necessary licences, and bears sole liability for any infringement of third-party rights.
• Pirated, copied or wholly machine-generated content without genuine educational value is prohibited.
• The platform applies technical protections (signed encrypted HLS, watermarking, download prevention); the Company does not guarantee absolute prevention of piracy and will cooperate on takedown requests for content copied elsewhere.
• On termination the content stops being offered for sale, while access for students who already bought it continues under clause 7.

• Content must respect the cultural values and applicable regulations of the GCC states; indecent, blasphemous, inciting or discriminatory content is prohibited.
• Misleading content, unrealistic financial promises, and unlicensed medical or legal claims are prohibited.
• Instructors moderate their academy community under the platform's moderation policies and answer student questions within a reasonable time.
• Harvesting student data or contacting students off-platform in order to divert sales is prohibited.
• The Company may hide or remove violating content, with notice to the instructor and an audit record of the action.

• A failed renewal is retried on days 1, 3 and 7; if it keeps failing the account becomes read-only (selling and publishing stop, student access continues) for fourteen days, then suspended, with academy checkout disabled.
• Settling arrears restores the account in full immediately.
• The Company may suspend an account immediately for fraud or commission circumvention, a material breach of content standards, forged documents, or failure of the GCC residency condition.

• Instructor data and KYC documents are processed under the privacy policy and UAE data-protection law, stored encrypted, and used solely for verification and compliance.
• Student data inside an academy (names, progress, engagement) is available to the instructor for on-platform teaching purposes only; exporting or using it elsewhere is prohibited.
• Instructors may request a copy of their data or delete their account through the DSAR mechanism in settings; financial records are retained for the statutory periods.

• The agreement takes effect on electronic acceptance and renews automatically with each subscription cycle.
• Instructors may cancel at any time from the dashboard; accrued balances are paid in the next batch after the refund window closes, absent open disputes.
• The Company may terminate on thirty days' notice without cause, or immediately for the material reasons listed in clause 8.
• Surviving termination: student-access obligations (clause 7), financial records, intellectual-property terms covering the period before termination, and the limits of liability.

• The platform is provided “as is”; the Company does not guarantee any particular sales volume or income.
• The Company's aggregate liability to the instructor is capped, in all circumstances, at the total subscription fees paid in the twelve months preceding the claim.
• This agreement is governed by the laws of the United Arab Emirates; the courts of Dubai have jurisdiction over any dispute after a thirty-day amicable-settlement period.
• The Company may amend this agreement on at least thirty days' prior notice by email and in the dashboard; continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance.

I confirm that I have read, understood and accept this agreement in full, that the documents I submitted are authentic, and that I hold valid legal residency in a GCC state.