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Terms for teachers

Version 2026-11-10.2, 11 November 2026.

These terms apply when you use a teacher account on Overheard, run by Abyl Applications Limited (registered in England and Wales, company number 09519157). They sit alongside our terms of use and privacy policy, which apply to your account like anyone else’s.

1. Teacher accounts

Teacher accounts are by invitation. You accept these terms before you use the teacher tools; we record the date and version.
You’re an independent teacher, not our employee or agent. Your lessons, your prices and your arrangements with students are yours.

2. Free Plus for teachers

You get Plus free for your first 3 months as a teacher, whether or not you have students yet.
After that, you keep it free while you have an active student: a student linked to you who has finished at least one practice session (a section and its questions) in the last 3 months. Whether they share their learning with you doesn’t matter.
Each time one of your students finishes a practice session, your free Plus runs for 3 months from that day. If none of them practises for 3 months, it ends on the first day of the 4th month: for example, if a student last practised on 20 January, your free Plus runs until 19 April and ends on 20 April.
Settings shows the date your free Plus runs until. When it ends you move to the Free plan (or to a plan you pay for), and it comes back as soon as one of your students practises again. Your teacher tools, link and commission don’t depend on it.

3. Your students’ data

A student is linked to you when they join through your link or code, or enter your code in Settings. You see their learning only if they choose to share it: their display name, homework results, section scores, the questions they missed, words they saved recently, and when they last practised. You never see their email address, payments or account settings.
When a student stops sharing, their learning disappears from your view at once. Don’t pressure a student to share or keep sharing.
Keep what you see confidential and use it only to teach that student. Don’t copy it out of Overheard, except brief notes for your own lessons, and don’t share it with anyone else.
For any notes you keep outside Overheard, you’re responsible for handling them lawfully (under UK GDPR and any other data protection law that applies to you), keeping them secure and deleting them when you no longer teach that student.
Tell us straight away at hello@overheard.it.com if you think a student’s data has been seen by someone it shouldn’t have been.

4. Homework and teaching tools

You can set videos, sections and playlists as homework, see results, and ask us to add videos. We decide which videos are added.
Homework uses videos that play from YouTube. If a video becomes unavailable, it’s removed from homework and you’re told.

5. Your link and commission

Students who sign up through your link or code are linked to you. If it’s the first partner link or code they use, you also earn from what they pay. That doesn’t change later: nobody can move a student’s commission to another teacher or creator.
You earn your commission rate (shown on your Partner page; 20% unless agreed otherwise) of what Overheard actually receives from those students’ subscriptions: the payment less VAT, payment fees and refunds. You earn for as long as they pay, including after they stop sharing with you.
A change to your rate applies to payments made after the change.
We pay a month’s commission on the 1st of the month after next, once refunds have had a full calendar month to come through: for payments made in August, you’re paid on 1 October. We pay by Wise or PayPal; your bank details stay with them, not with us. A refund after we’ve paid you is taken off your next payout.
You’re responsible for your own tax on what you earn.
No self-referral: you can’t be your own student or use your own link. Don’t create accounts, sign people up on their behalf or pay people to join. We don’t pay commission on sign-ups that break these terms, and we may hold back commission while we look into suspected fraud.

6. Recommending Overheard

If you recommend Overheard publicly (for example on social media), say that you earn from it, as advertising rules require. Be accurate: don’t promise results or describe features or prices we don’t offer.
Overheard is for adults (18+). Don’t invite or recommend it to anyone under 18.
You’re responsible for following the rules of any platform you teach on, for example rules about taking students off-platform or sharing links.

7. Pausing or ending

Either of us can end your teacher account at any time. Tell us at hello@overheard.it.com, or we’ll tell you.
We can pause or end a teacher account that breaks these terms. While it’s paused, your link stops working, you can’t use the teacher tools, and new payments don’t earn commission.
When your teacher account ends, you no longer see your students or their learning, and commission on payments made before the end is still paid once it’s due (unless it came from sign-ups that broke these terms).

8. Changes

If we change these terms, we’ll show you the new version and ask you to accept it before you carry on using the teacher tools. If you don’t accept, you can end your teacher account; commission you’ve already earned is still paid.

9. Contact

Abyl Applications Limited (registered in England and Wales, company number 09519157), Taudinn, Tunstall, Richmond, North Yorkshire, DL10 7QL, United Kingdom. Email: hello@overheard.it.com.