Terms & Conditions
– BASIL LANNEAU GILDERSLEEVE
This web page represents a legal document that serves as our Terms of Service, Terms and Conditions and Terms of Use and it governs the legal terms of our website located at https://wordyaffairs.com/, sub-domains, and any associated web-based and mobile applications (collectively referred to as, “Website”), as owned and operated by Wordy Affairs.
Unless otherwise indicated, capitalised terms have the definitions found in the Definitions section below. This Terms of Service supersedes all prior agreements, representations, warranties, and understandings with respect to our website and the subject matter herein, as well as our Privacy Policy, any applicable mobile licence agreement, and other posted guidelines within our website (collectively, the “Legal Terms”).
We may amend our Legal Terms at any time without specific notice to you. The latest copies of our Legal Terms will be posted on our website, and you should review all Legal Terms prior to using our website. After any revisions to our Legal Terms are posted, you agree to be bound to any such changes to them. Therefore, it is important for you to periodically review our Legal Terms to make sure you still agree to them.
By using this website, you accept these Website Terms and Conditions of Use, all applicable laws and regulations, and the responsibility for adhering to any local laws that may be in force in your area. You are not permitted to use or access this website if you disagree with any of these terms. This website’s content is shielded by relevant copyright and trademark laws.
Definitions
The terms “US” or “WE” or “OUR” refers to Wordy Affairs, the owner of the website.
A “VISITOR” is someone who merely browses our website, but has not registered asMember.
A “MEMBER” is an individual that has registered with us to use our Service.
A “STUDENT” is an individual who has registered on our platform to learn our English language / course.
A “TEACHER/TUTOR” is an individual who has registered on our platform or hired by us to teach English language / course to the registered students.
Our “SERVICE” represents the collective functionality and features as offered through our website.
A “USER” is a collective identifier that refers to a Visitor, Member, Student or a Teacher.
All text, information, graphics, audio, video, and data offered through our website are collectively known as our “Content”.
Data Privacy
Wordy Affairs’s Privacy Policy is incorporated into this Terms of Use. Please read our Privacy Policy for details relating to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information.
When tutors provide and students get tutoring services, tutors will acquire personal data about the students. According to any applicable data protection regulations, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (EU 2016/679) (“GDPR”), the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), or the DIFC Law No. 5 of 2020, “personal data” or “personal information” shall have the meanings ascribed to them. Tutor promises to independently adhere to its responsibilities as a “controller” under the GDPR and a “business” under the CCPA, to the extent that these requirements apply to Tutor, with regard to any Personal Data collected by Tutor in accordance with this Agreement.
SERVICES OFFERED BY WORDY AFFAIRS
Wordy Affairs is a boutique business English language company. We offer a marketplace through this website to connect individuals who want to learn English language (“Students”) with a native English speaker or Local English Teacher who can help them learn (“Tutors”) for real time online tutoring lessons and / or 1:1 offline tutoring lesson(“Tutoring Services”).
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
You are only permitted to use the Platform if you are able to legally bind Wordy Affairs and only in accordance with all applicable local, state, national, and international laws, rules, and regulations.
If you are a Student, you certify that you are at least sixteen (16) years old (the “Minimum Age”) in your jurisdiction. You are not permitted to use the Platform as a Student who is over the Minimum Age but under the age of majority unless your parent or legal guardian has given Wordy Affairs verifiable consent and has agreed to these Terms of Use.
You represent that you are older than 18 if you are a tutor.
You are not allowed to access or use the Platform if Wordy Affairs has previously forbidden you from doing so.
Account Registration and Use
Student Registration:For the aim of learning and honing their English conversational skills, Students can request and participate in a video chat lesson with a tutor (referred to as a “Lesson”) using the Platform. You must register and set up an account on the Platform in order to access a Lesson. During registration, you might need to:
- (i) create a unique user name and password,
- (ii) provide an e-mail address,
- (iii) indicate your current country of domicile,
- (iv) indicate your native language,
- (v) indicate your gender.
- (vi) Indicate other information
As we employ a third-party payment processor to receive and process payments, kindly note that Wordy Affairs does not have access to your payment card information.
Tutor Registration:Tutors must register and set up an account on our website or app in order to access the Platform and provide tutoring services to Students. During the registration procedure, we could demand that a Tutor:
- (i) create a unique user name and password,
- (ii) provide an e-mail address,
- (iii) indicate Tutor’s current country of domicile,
- (iv) indicate Tutor’s native language,
- (v) indicate Tutor’s gender,
- (vi) indicate Tutor’s Educational Qualifications
- (vii) indicate that Tutor is at least eighteen (18) years of age.
Registration Accuracy:You promise to always give true, accurate, up-to-date, and comprehensive information. You further acknowledge that it is your responsibility to keep this data current, correct, and confidential at all times.
Password:You will be asked for a password when you register. You agree to take full responsibility for any activities that take place under your account and are solely responsible for keeping your account and password secure as well as for limiting access to your computer. You agree to alert Wordy Affairs right once if you have any cause to believe that your account is no longer secure, such as in the case of a loss, theft, or unauthorised disclosure of your account ID or password. Any illegal use of your account may result in you being held accountable for the losses suffered by Wordy Affairs or other parties.
Personal Use:Except as provided herein, Wordy Affairs accounts may only be used by the User who registered for that account. Lesson Package purchased by a Student may only be used by that Student in that Student’s account. You agree not to share your user name and password or otherwise permit any other person to access or use your Wordy Affairs account. Under no circumstances may a Tutor allow other individuals to use the Tutor’s account to perform any Services.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR TUTORS
For all intents and purposes, the tutor is an independent contractor and not Wordy Affairs’ employee, agent, joint venture partner, or joint venturer. Tutor is not eligible for any benefits that Wordy Affairs may occasionally offer to workers. The tutor is exclusively responsible for paying all income taxes, unemployment insurance, social security taxes, and any necessary premiums for workers’ compensation insurance.
Tutor shall have the right to control and determine the time, place, methods, manner and means of performing tutoring services on the Platform (the “Tutor’s Services”). In performing the Tutor’s Services, the amount of time Tutor uses the Platform on any given day will be entirely within Tutor’s control taking into consideration the following points:
- 1. Tutor shall spend at least 75 minutes on each lesson.
- 2. The tutor has the option to increase the time for each lesson for no additional cost to the student.
- 3. In case, a tutor needs 5-10 minutes or more to complete a lesson, he/she is free to do that without any compulsion from Wordy Affairs.
The authority to control and direct the performance of the specifics of the tutor’s services, such as the particular lessons, terminology, or exercises utilised by the tutor in the performance of the tutor’s services. The Tutor’s Services must, however, adhere to Wordy Affairs’s standards for quality and customer service, and they must also submit to Wordy Affairs’s general right of inspection and oversight.
Tutor retains the right to contract with other companies or entities for his or her consulting services without restriction. Likewise, Wordy Affairs retains a reciprocal right to contract with other companies and/or individuals for consulting services without restriction. However, Tutor shall not directly or indirectly, either alone or in association with others, during the Tutor’s offering or provision of the Tutor’s Services on the Platform and for six (6) months thereafter, solicit, induce or attempt to induce, any Student to terminate his or her relationship or other engagement with Wordy Affairs and receive Tutor’s Services outside the App or the Site.
Tutor is not permitted to represent Wordy Affairs or any of its related or affiliated entities in any business transaction, agreement, sale of goods, receipt of payment, solicitation of orders, or assignment of any kind of obligation, express or implied, or to bind in any manner whatsoever, or to make any promise, warranty, or representation with respect to any matter, except as expressly permitted by law. Without Wordy Affairs’s prior written consent, tutor may not use any of its trade names, trademarks, service names, or service marks.
Payment
In consideration of Tutor’s performance of Tutor’s Services, Wordy Affairs, through a third-party HR consultant, shall pay to Tutor a fee of total rates charged on the website minus a rate defined in the agreement between the Tutor and to Wordy Affairs. All the payment to the Tutors shall be made by a third-party HR consultant hired by Wordy Affairs. Wordy Affairs shall not be held responsible for any issues that Tutor may experience with the HR consultant hired by Wordy Affairs.
Tutor Availability, Tutor Quality AND FREE TRIAL
Tutor Availability:Wordy Affairs does not guarantee that any specific (or any) Tutor will be accessible at any given time. Lessons are dependent on the availability of the tutor.
Tutor Quality:You agree that Wordy Affairs has no obligation to confirm any Tutor’s claimed credentials, experience, or qualifications. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Wordy Affairs has, to the best of its ability, screened each Tutor in review of their credentials presented and its interview processes. Please email Wordy Affairs at info@wordyaffairs.com if you want to file a complaint about any Tutor. Students are accountable for any correspondence or other interactions they have with Tutors on or via the Platform. Wordy Affairs reserves the right to monitor disputes between Users, including those between students and tutors, but is under no duty to do so.
Free Trials: Free trials are available only to first-time users.
- If the Tutor doesn’t meet your expectation during the trial lesson, you may request a second (2nd) free trial lesson with another Tutor on the platform.
- Tutors will only conduct one free trial lesson per student.
- Students are entitled to receive a maximum of 2 free trials.
- If the both free trial lessons do not meet your expectation, you may order a third (3rd) trial lesson, but it will be available at the price shown on the website.
Lessons
Hardware and Software:It is necessary to have appropriate hardware and may be necessary to download and install particular software in order to participate in a Lesson. Any such hardware and software must be purchased, installed, and its compatibility with your system must be determined by you alone. You hereby assume all risk and liability related to such hardware and software. You accept that it is your duty to review and abide by all applicable licencing agreements and other terms and conditions pertaining to every piece of software you use in connection with Lessons and the Platform in general.
Restrictions on Use:Except as permitted by these Terms of Service, you agree to only participate in Lessons for your own private, non-commercial use and not to record, copy, distribute, broadcast, publicly perform, or publicly display any such Lessons.
Lesson Recordings:Lessons may be recorded or monitored. You hereby consent to:
- (i) the monitoring or recording of any Lesson you engage in, including your likeness therein;
- (ii) Wordy Affairs copying and using such recordings for purposes of providing the Services, including without limitation for purposes of Tutor evaluation, Tutor training, dispute resolution and improving the Platform;
- (iii) such recording being made available to the other party to the Lesson, including the Student or parents of a Student;
- (iv) such recordings being made available for you to review;
- (v) such recording being used or disclosed by Wordy Affairs to the extent required by law or legal process or to the extent Wordy Affairs deems necessary for purposes of enforcing or protecting its rights or the rights of a third party; and
- (vi) as you otherwise agree (including, for Tutors). You hereby waive any rights of publicity, privacy or other rights under applicable law to the extent such rights could be used to prevent Wordy Affairs from using Lesson recordings for the limited purposes set forth in this subsection or as you otherwise agree (including for Tutors), and hereby grant a worldwide, non-exclusive, fully paid-up, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, sublicenseable, and transferable license under any intellectual property rights you may have in or to any Lesson recording or content therein to Wordy Affairs to copy, modify, distribute and use such recording and content for its business purposes as set forth hereunder or as required by law or legal process. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you may have certain choices with respect to access to or our retention of lesson recordings as set forth in our Privacy Policy.
Ownership and Proprietary Rights
Wordy Affairs LLC is the owner and operator of the Platform. The Wordy Affairs Materials, which include all videos, information, visual interfaces, graphics, designs, compilations, computer code, goods, software, and services, are protected by Dubai and international copyright, trade dress, patent, and trademark laws, international conventions, and all other applicable intellectual property and proprietary rights laws. The ownership of all Wordy Affairs Materials rests with Wordy Affairs, its affiliates, subsidiaries, and/or third-party licensors. Wordy Affairs or its affiliates and/or third-party licensors are the exclusive owners of all trademarks, service marks, and trade names. You undertake not to offer the Wordy Affairs Materials for sale, licencing, distribution, copy, alter, publicly perform or display, transmit, publish, edit, adapt, create derivative works from, or use them in any other way that is not expressly approved by Wordy Affairs.
You are under no obligation to give us any feedback, comments, questions, or ideas (collectively, “Feedback”) regarding the Platform; we are free to utilise any such information without your consent. By sending us any feedback, you also recognise that we may already be considering or developing something similar to the feedback and that there is no duty on our part to keep the information you give confidential, express or implied.
You agree to release Wordy Affairs and its users from all claims and assertions of any moral rights contained in the Feedback, and to grant us an irrevocable, non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide licence to use, alter, create derivative works, publish, distribute, and sublicense the Feedback. In the event that your account or the Platform is terminated, these provisions relating to feedback will remain in effect.
Without limiting the Terms of Use, Tutor agrees that all files, documents, letters, memoranda, reports, records, data, program listings, computer equipment or devices, computer programs or other written, photographic, or other tangible material containing Wordy Affairs proprietary information, whether created by Tutor or others, which shall come into his custody or possession, shall be and are the exclusive property of Wordy Affairs to be used by Tutor only in the performance of his duties for Wordy Affairs. All such materials or copies thereof and all tangible property of Wordy Affairs in the custody or possession of Tutor shall be delivered to Wordy Affairs, upon the earlier of
- (i) a request by Wordy Affairs or
- (ii) the termination of the Agreement. After such delivery, Tutor shall not retain any such materials or copies thereof or any such tangible property.
The obligations of Tutor with regard to Wordy Affairs’ confidential information include any such information, documents, and physical property of Wordy Affairs’ clients, suppliers, or other third parties who may have provided or entrusted such information to Wordy Affairs or to Tutor.
Student Data:Tutor understands that in the course of offering or providing Tutor’s Services to Students, Tutor may obtain personal information from Students, including without limitation access to recordings of Lessons, the Student’s age, geographic location, profession, and/or language abilities (collectively, “Student Data”). Tutor acknowledges that accessing, using, or otherwise processing Student Data will only be done for the purpose of offering Tutor’s Services. Only with the explicit consent of the relevant Student or as allowed by applicable legislation, tutor may use or disclose Student Data for other purposes. Without affecting Tutor’s other responsibilities under the GDPR and CCPA (where they apply to Tutor), Tutor agrees to secure and protect Student Data in accordance with the rules set forth by the relevant legislation.
Tutor Release: Tutor grants Wordy Affairs the right and consent to use all of Tutor’s name, likeness, image, voice, recorded voice, appearance, recorded appearance (including through video or photography), biographical information, performance, and/or testimonials (collectively, “Appearance”) in any manner and in any media, now known or later developed, throughout the world, at any time, for the purpose of promoting Wordy Affairs’s goods and services.Tutor understands that Wordy Affairs shall have full ownership of any recording, product, copy, presentation, or other material or file including or showing Tutor’s Appearance (“Ad Product”). This permission includes, without limitation, Wordy Affairs’ unrestricted right to edit, abridge, augment, title, or compile the entire or a portion of the Tutor’s Appearance as Wordy Affairs may determine in its sole discretion.
Developments:Tutor will make full and prompt disclosure to Wordy Affairs of all inventions, creations, improvements, discoveries, methods, developments, software and works of authorship, whether patentable or not, that are created, made, conceived or reduced to practice by him or under his direction or jointly with others during the period in which Tutor is eligible to offer Tutor’s Services on the Platform (the “Service Period”). Tutor agrees to cooperate fully with Wordy Affairs, both during and after the Service Period, with respect to the procurement, maintenance, and enforcement of copyrights, patents and other intellectual property rights relating to Developments. Tutor shall sign all papers, including, without limitation, copyright applications, patent applications, declarations, oaths, formal assignments, assignments of priority rights, and powers of attorney, which Wordy Affairs may deem necessary or desirable in order to protect its rights and interests in any Development. Tutor further agrees that if Wordy Affairs is unable, after reasonable effort, to secure the signature of Tutor on any such papers, any executive officer of Wordy Affairs shall be entitled to execute any such papers as the agent and the attorney-in-fact of Tutor, and Tutor hereby irrevocably designates and appoints each executive officer of Wordy Affairs as his agent and attorney-in-fact to execute any such papers on his behalf, and to take any and all actions as Wordy Affairs may deem necessary or desirable in order to protect its rights and interests in any Development, under the conditions described in this sentence.
Remedies: Tutor understands that any violation of the terms of this agreement by him or her will cause Wordy Affairs substantial and irreparable harm for which money damages alone will not be sufficient. As a result, Tutor agrees that Wordy Affairs shall be entitled, in addition to any other remedy it may have, to enforce the specific performance of this section by Tutor and to seek both temporary and permanent injunctive relief (to the extent permitted by law) without having to establish actual damages.
Other Agreements:Tutor hereby represents that, except as Tutor has disclosed in writing to Wordy Affairs, Tutor is not bound by the terms of any agreement with any third party to refrain from using or disclosing any trade secret or confidential or proprietary information in the course of his consultancy with Wordy Affairs, to refrain from competing, directly or indirectly, with the business of such third party or to refrain from soliciting employees, customers or suppliers of such third party. Tutor further represents that his performance as a Tutor of Wordy Affairs do not and will not breach any agreement with any third party to which Tutor is a party (including without limitation any nondisclosure or non-competition agreement).
Modifications: This section may be modified at any time by Wordy Affairs. Except as expressly stated in this section, such modifications will apply to existing Tutors after Wordy Affairs notifies you of the changes, either through the Platform user interface or via email sent to the address associated with your user account; and when you expressly agree to the modifications, a version of this section that incorporates the modifications, or when you opt-in to the changes. Wordy Affairs may end the Agreement and your use of the Platform if you give written notification that you do not accept a proposed modification or decline to expressly consent to a proposed modification.
Payment, REFUND AND CANCELATION
Students pay for Tutoring Services according to lesson packages available on this platform. Payment will occur through a third-party payment system (e.g., Paypal, Stripe). All such payment terms and conditions are governed by your applicable agreements with the third-party payment system. Fees displayed to you are exclusive of any taxes that may be due in connection with such fees, and you agree to pay any such taxes that may be due, other than taxes based on Wordy Affairs’s net income. You also agree to pay Wordy Affairs any costs and expenses incurred by Wordy Affairs, including reasonable attorney’s fees, in recovering any fees due hereunder.
Payment Plans:Wordy Affairs may provide Students with an option to sign up for a subscription payment plan in which a designated amount will be charged to a Student account on a monthly (or as otherwise designated) basis (a “Payment Plan”). By signing up for a Subscription Payment Plan and providing us with your payment account information, you are signing up to an auto-renewing subscription requiring recurring payments and agree to pay the amount designated for your particular Payment Plan on a renewing basis. If you sign up for a Payment Plan, you will be charged the first recurring payment on the date of the registration for the Payment Plan, and you will then be charged on a recurring basis until you cancel the Payment Plan or we terminate it. Your account will include information on the payment date for your Payment Plan. In some cases, your payment date may change, for example if your payment method has not successfully settled or if your Payment Plan began on a day not contained in a given month. If a payment is not successfully settled, due to expiration, insufficient funds, or otherwise, and you do not cancel your account, we may suspend your access to the Platform until we have successfully charged a valid payment method.
You may cancel a Subscription Payment Plan for a package that you have bought at any time in your account settings. You must cancel a Subscription Payment Plan before it renews to avoid billing of the next installment under your particular Subscription Payment Plan.
Refund and Cancellation Policy:
Lessons can be postponed up to 12 hours in advance, in which case the lessons will be applied to the remaining lessons in the student’s package. A student forfeits the right to use a lesson if
- he or she cancels it fewer than 12 hours before the scheduled start time since it would be considered utilised.
- he or she is more than fifteen (15) minutes late to a lesson that is scheduled to start, unless he or she has contacted the Tutor up to fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled lesson start time to alert of a further delay.
For any refunds, Students shall send a refund request in writing to info@wordyaffairs.com within 21 days from date the order is placed/paid failing to which Students will not be entitled for any refunds whatsoever.
The package will be considered fully used after 21 days and the student will not receive a refund for the proportionate part of unused lessons after the three-month mark.
Students shall have 30 days by which to schedule and take a single lesson purchase. Students shall have 90 days to schedule and take multi-lesson packages. In both instances, students will not have these lessons available to them after the 30 and 90 day expiries respectively, and will not receive a refund for any portion or remaining lessons unused.
Wordy Affairs reserves the right to change the subscription plans and applicable Subscription Fees at any time, upon notice to the Student, and effective upon subscription renewal. If you do not agree with the changes, you may cancel any upcoming renewals to your subscription.
Rules and Prohibitions
Users/Students/Tutors agree that they may not:
- access or use the Platform for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by this Agreement;
- use the Platform in any manner that in our sole discretion could damage, disable, overburden, or impair it or interfere with any other party’s use of the Platform;
- intentionally interfere with or damage the operation of the Platform, or any User’s enjoyment of it, by any means, including uploading or otherwise disseminating viruses, worms, or other malicious code;
- remove, circumvent, disable, damage or otherwise interfere with any security-related features of the Platform, features that prevent or restrict the use or copying of any content accessible through the Platform, or features that enforce limitations on the use of the Platform;
- attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Platform, or any part of it, other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to the Platform, or any part of it, through hacking, password mining or any other means or interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Platform or any activities conducted on the Platform;
- obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available through the Platform;
- use any robot, spider, scraper, or other automated means to access the Platform for any purpose without our express written permission or bypass our robot exclusion headers or other measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Platform;
- utilize any trademark, logo, or other Wordy Affairs materials without our express written consent, including through framing techniques or in meta tags of “hidden text”;
- modify the Platform in any manner or form, or use modified versions of the Platform, including (without limitation) for obtaining unauthorized access to the Platform;
- create more than one account, use another person’s account without authorization, impersonate any person or entity; or forge or manipulate headers or identifiers to disguise the origin of any content transmitted through the Platform;
- in any way violate any copyrights, trade secrets, or other rights of any third party, including privacy or publicity rights;
- spam anyone;
- post advertisements or conduct any commercial solicitation purposes without Wordy Affairs’s written permission;
- engage in conduct or post content that is libelous, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harassing, hateful, obscene, offensive, humiliating to other people (publicly or otherwise), or otherwise violates any law or right of Wordy Affairs or any third party;
- share other people’s private or personally identifiable information without their express authorization and permission; or
- attempt to indirectly undertake any of the foregoing.
If you are a Student, you also agree to only participate in Lessons if you want to learn or improve your English. If you work as a tutor, you further agree to limit your participation in Lessons to instructing students in the English language.
User Content
You may be able to post information, text, images, photos, audio, video, postings, reviews, or other materials on the Platform (hence, “post”) that may or may not be visible to other Users. This is known as “User Content.” All intellectual property rights in the User Content you publish on the Platform remain yours.
You give Wordy Affairs a licence to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display, distribute, and otherwise exploit such User Content in any format or medium now known or developed in the future for Wordy Affairs’s business purposes or as required by law or legal process by posting User Content on or through the Platform. This licence is worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, and royalty-free (with the right to sublicense). For the avoidance of doubt, the licence granted to Wordy Affairs shall continue even if the Platform or your account are terminated.For the avoidance of doubt, and despite the licence granted to Wordy Affairs in User Content, our use and storage of your personal information, including any that may be present in User Content, shall also be regulated by and in accordance with the Wordy Affairs’s Privacy Policy. For any User Content that you publish, you represent, warrant, and agree that you have the authority to grant us the licence outlined in this Section. You acknowledge and agree that this licence extends to the use of your User Content by other Users who have access to it (such as Tutors or Students) in connection with their participation in the Platform and in ways made possible by the functionality of the Platform.
You acknowledge that Wordy Affairs is merely acting as a passive conduit for your online distribution and publication of your User Content and that you alone are liable for your own User Content and any repercussions of posting or publishing it. You are aware that by using the Platform, you may be exposed to User Content that is offensive, indecent, incorrect, misleading, or otherwise objectionable. Wordy Affairs neither controls nor is liable for User Content. Please send us an email at info@wordyaffairs.com to report any inappropriate behaviour. Additionally, keep in mind that User Content can be inaccurate or contain typographical or other unintentional errors.
Wordy Affairs reserves the right in its sole discretion to remove or disable access to any User Content from the Platform, suspend or terminate your account at any time, or pursue any other remedy or relief available under equity or law if you post any User Content that violates this Agreement or we consider to be objectionable for any reason. You agree that Wordy Affairs reserves the right to monitor User Content (but does not assume the obligation), and you understand it remains your sole responsibility to monitor your User Content and ensure that your User Content is accurate and consistent with your representations and warranties in this Agreement.
Wordy Affairs reserves the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any information as we reasonably believe is necessary to
- (i) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request,
- (ii) enforce this Agreement, including investigation of potential violations hereof,
- (iii) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues,
- (iv) respond to User support requests, or (v) protect the rights, property or safety of Wordy Affairs, its Users and the public.
License to Use the WORDY AFFAIRS Platform
Wordy Affairs hereby grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-assignable, non-sub-licensable, revocable licence to access and use the Platform as provided by Wordy Affairs solely for your personal, non-commercial use and only in connection with your access to and participation in the Platform and only in a manner consistent with all applicable laws that may be applicable to you or your use of the Platform.This licence may be revoked at any moment by Wordy Affairs at its sole discretion. Following such revocation, you are required to immediately delete all materials you have downloaded or otherwise accessed from the Platform, along with any copies you may have made of those materials, whether in line with these Terms of Service or not.
Except as specifically permitted in this Agreement, you will not use, copy, adapt, modify, create derivative works based on, distribute, licence, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, stream, broadcast, or otherwise exploit the Platform or the content made accessible therein. You are given the Platform and any content therein “AS IS.” You must keep all copyright and other proprietary notices present when downloading or printing a copy of any content from the Platform for your own use. Except for the licences and rights expressly granted in this Agreement, Wordy Affairs and its licensors do not by implication or otherwise grant you any licences or rights to any intellectual property owned or controlled by them.
Modifications and Termination of Accounts or the WORDY AFFAIRS Platform
Platform:Any media, products, or services offered on the Platform may be altered or discontinued at any time and without prior notice by Wordy Affairs. Wordy Affairs makes no obligation to update the media, goods, or services on the Platform, therefore they might be out-of-date. You agree that Wordy Affairs shall not be liable to you or any other party for any such termination. We reserve the right to alter the Platform or terminate access to the Platform without prior notice.
Account:We reserve the right to restrict, block, suspend, deactivate, or terminate your account in whole or in part at any time, with or without cause, with or without prior notice. Any or all of the following may take place, with or without previous notification or justification to you, if we decide to act in accordance with our discretion under this Agreement:
(a) Your password will be disabled, your account will be terminated or suspended, and you won’t be able to access the Platform, your user content, or contact Wordy Affairs customer care staff;
(b) We may inform other Users that your Account has been terminated, blocked, suspended, deactivated, or cancelled and the reason for this action, if we deem it appropriate in our sole discretion. By sending an email to info@wordyaffairs.com, you can stop using the Platform and/or terminate your account at any time.
Please be aware that, unless otherwise required by applicable law, we are under no obligation to remove or return to you any User Content you have posted to the Platform if your account is terminated. If we close a tutor’s account, the tutor in question is entitled to compensation for tutoring services rendered prior to the termination date, which must be paid within sixty (60) days after termination by the HR consultant retained by Wordy Affairs. If the hired HR consultant didn’t make the payment, Wordy Affairs won’t be held liable.
Third-Party Links and Resources
The Platform may contain information and content provided by third parties and may contain links to third-party websites, and other resources that are not owned or controlled by Wordy Affairs. Wordy Affairs is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for such external sites or resources. These links and resources do not imply any endorsement by Wordy Affairs, and Wordy Affairs does not endorse or assume any responsibility for any such third-party sites, information, materials, products, or services. You acknowledge that usage of any third-party website or resource that you access through a link on the Platform is at your own risk and is not subject to this Agreement/Terms of Use or Wordy Affairs’ Privacy Policy. You expressly absolve Wordy Affairs of any and all liability resulting from your use of any website, service, or content belonging to a third party. You recognise and accept that Wordy Affairs disclaims all liability and responsibility for:
- (i) the availability or accuracy of such websites or resources; or
- (ii) the content, products, or services on or available from such websites or resources.
Disclaimers; No Warranties
The platform is supplied “as is” and without any express or implied guarantees of any kind, and the same goes for any third-party content, media, software, services, or applications that may be made available alongside or via the platform. Wordy affairs, its suppliers, licensors, and partners disclaim all warranties, express or implicit, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a specific purpose, and non-infringement of property rights, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.
Wordy affairs and its partners, suppliers, and licensors do not guarantee that the platform’s features will operate without interruption or errors, that bugs will be fixed, or that the platform, site, app, or the servers that host them are free of malware or other malicious elements.
Wordy affairs and its partners, suppliers, and licensors disclaim any warranties and guarantees regarding the correctness, accuracy, and dependability of the platform’s use or the outcomes of its use. You are responsible for paying the whole cost of any required maintenance, repair, or correction (and not wordy affairs, its partners, suppliers, or licensors). You acknowledge and accept that any media, material, or other data you download or otherwise get through the use of the platform is done at your own risk and initiative, and that you alone are responsible for any resulting computer system harm or data loss.
Limitations on implied warranties and the exclusion or restriction of certain damages are prohibited by the laws of some states or nations. Some or all of the aforementioned exclusions, limitations, or disclaimers may not apply to you if these laws apply to you, and you may also be entitled to other rights.
Limitation of Liability
Under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, shall Wordy Affairs or its affiliates, contractors, employees, agents, or third party partners, licensors or suppliers, be liable to you for any special, indirect, incidental, consequential, or exemplary damages that result from your use of or the inability to use the Wordy Affairs materials on the platform or the platform itself, or any other interactions with Wordy Affairs, even if Wordy Affairs or a Wordy Affairs authorized representative has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Applicable law may not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability or incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you. In such cases, Wordy Affairs’s liability will be limited to the extent permitted by law.
In no event shall Wordy Affairs’s or its affiliates, contractors, employees, agents, or third party partners or suppliers’ total liability to you for all damages, losses, and causes of action arising out of or relating to these terms or your use of the platform (whether in contract, tort, warranty, or otherwise) exceed the greater of:
(a) the total amounts you have paid to wordy affairs (or are payable to you by wordy affairs) hereunder during the six (6) months preceding the date of the claim and
(b) One Hundred (100) US Dollars.
These restrictions also apply to any losses you sustain as a result of purchasing or receiving from non-wordy affairs third parties any goods or services you obtained through the platform, any advertisements thereon, or any connections the platform may provide.
Indemnification
Your use or misuse of the Platform, any infringement on the rights of another person or entity, or any violation of this Agreement will result in you being held liable for any claims, losses, damages, or liabilities, including attorney’s fees, which you agree to defend Wordy Affairs, its affiliated companies, suppliers, licensors, and partners against.
Tutor shall further be solely liable for, and shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless Wordy Affairs and its successors and assigns from and against any claim or liability of any kind (including penalties, fees or charges) resulting from Tutor’s failure to pay the taxes, penalties, and payments due under this Agreement, including the Tutor Addendum. Tutor shall further indemnify, defend and hold harmless Wordy Affairs and its successors and assigns from and against any and all loss or damage resulting from any misrepresentation, or any non-fulfillment of any representation, responsibility, covenant or agreement on his part, as well as any and all acts, suits, proceedings, demands, assessments, penalties, judgments of or against Wordy Affairs relating to or arising out of the activities of Tutor and Tutor shall pay reasonable attorneys’ fees, costs and expenses incident thereto.
Wordy Affairs reserves the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter for which you are required to indemnify us and you agree to cooperate with our defense of these claims.
ARBITRATION & GOVERNING LAW
This arbitration agreement is governed by the DIFC Courts and applies to any and all claims or controversies, past, present or future, arising out of or relating to this Agreement, this arbitration agreement, or any access or use of the Platform, including without limitation, Tutor’s independent contractor classification, Tutor’s provision of services, Student’s receipt of services, any payments made to Tutor through the Platform or arising out of or relating to the acceptance or performance of services arranged through the Platform, the termination of this Agreement, claims of harassment, retaliation, or discrimination and all other aspects of a Student’s or Tutor’s relationship (or the termination of its relationship) with Wordy Affairs, whether arising under federal, state or local statutory and/or common law. You and Wordy Affairs agree that the mutual obligations contained in this Agreement and to arbitrate disputes provide adequate consideration for this arbitration agreement.
You and Wordy Affairs mutually agree to resolve any and all covered justiciable issues between you exclusively through final and binding arbitration rather than a court or jury trial, subject to limitations and prohibitions under applicable law. Unless otherwise specified in this Arbitration section, this arbitration agreement calls for the arbitration of any claims that Wordy Affairs or you may have against one another or any of their:
- officers, directors, employees, subcontractors, or agents in their capacity as such or otherwise,
- direct or indirect parents and subsidiaries, and
- affiliates, agents, successors or assigns,
each and all of which may enforce this arbitration agreement as direct or third-party beneficiaries.
CONTACT
Wordy Affairs LLC
Address: SHAMS, PO Box 515000
Name of the Contact Person: Luann Parker, Managing Director
Phone Number: +971 56 170 2441
Email: info@wordyaffairs.com
Address:
SHAMS FZ Sharjah, UAE
Email:
info@wordyaffairs.com
Website:
www.wordyaffairs.com
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