Teacher Terms

You are an independent professional, not an employee, agent, or partner of SkillsetMind. You decide what to teach, how to price it (within the platform's supported options), and how to run your courses. SkillsetMind provides the technology, checkout, and marketplace — it does not supervise your professional practice.

You must be at least 18 years old. Any credentials, licenses, degrees, or professional experience you present on your profile or in your course pages must be truthful and current. Misrepresenting qualifications — especially regulated or clinical ones — is grounds for immediate removal.

To sell on SkillsetMind you must be able to open and keep your own Stripe account in a country where SkillsetMind supports Stripe payouts: currently the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, the European Union, Liechtenstein and Norway. Latin America, including Brazil, is planned for later. Availability depends on Stripe and may change. If Stripe cannot verify you or pay out to you in your country, you cannot sell courses on SkillsetMind. You can connect Stripe in the studio before paying the activation fee, so you can check this first.

You retain full ownership of the intellectual property in the content you create. By publishing on SkillsetMind you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide license to host, encode, display, and deliver your content to your enrolled students, and to use your course title, description, cover image, and public profile to promote your course on and off the platform. This license ends for a course when you remove it, except for students already enrolled, who keep the access they paid for.

There is no exclusivity. You may sell the same or similar content anywhere else.

You are solely responsible for the accuracy, originality, legality, and student safety of everything you publish — videos, materials, community posts, and live sessions. You must own or have the rights to everything in your course, including music, images, and excerpts.

Where SkillsetMind requires it, you must complete professional verification before publishing. SkillsetMind may review content reported to it for policy compliance; this does not transfer responsibility for your content to SkillsetMind. Automated compliance signals do not automatically unpublish a course. After a human operations decision, courses may be paused or removed if they fail trust, payment, safety, or content standards.

SkillsetMind serves coaches, facilitators, and personal-development professionals. It is not a venue for licensed clinical practice, so this boundary is strict:

• Courses must be instructional. A course may teach methods, frameworks, and skills; it may not deliver individualized clinical care, diagnosis, or treatment disguised as a course.
• You may not use courses, communities, or live sessions to create a therapist-client, counselor-client, or practitioner-patient relationship with students, nor present course participation as a substitute for therapy or medical treatment.
• Courses touching wellbeing or mental-health topics must include a clear disclaimer that the content is instructional and does not replace professional care.
• If your professional regulations (licensing board, professional council, or local law) restrict what you may offer online, you are responsible for complying with them.

Consistent with The Promise: your student list is yours. You can see the name, email, enrollment date, and progress of students in your courses, and you can download each course's student roster as a CSV at any time. You can request an export of your content from your Account, which we process within 30 days. If you leave SkillsetMind, you take them with you.

In return, you must treat student data lawfully: use it to run and support your courses and your own communication with your students, never sell it, and honor applicable privacy law (GDPR, LGPD, CCPA) for the data you export. Do not share one student's personal information with other students.

• You are the merchant of record — the buyer's payment is charged directly to your Stripe account. SkillsetMind never receives, holds, or remits your sale proceeds, and is not a party to the payment between you and your buyer. As merchant of record you are responsible for delivering what you sold, for your own refund and chargeback exposure, and for the consumer-protection and tax obligations that apply to your sales.
• Checkout — all sales of your courses on SkillsetMind go through the platform's Stripe checkout, created against your connected account. Directing platform buyers to an off-platform checkout for the same course is prohibited.
• Commission — SkillsetMind charges a platform fee on each sale according to your subscription plan, as shown on the pricing page at the time of sale. Stripe deducts it from the charge automatically; we do not invoice you for it separately.
• Payouts — paid by Stripe from your own account balance to your bank. Checkout can be presented in 30 currencies; the currency your balance settles and pays out in is set by Stripe on your connected account, and a conversion may apply when the two differ. The payout schedule is the one on your connected Stripe account and is controlled by Stripe; SkillsetMind adds no clearance period on top of it, because SkillsetMind holds nothing. Stripe applies its own settlement and payout timing, which depends on your country and payment method, and imposes a waiting period on a new connected account's first payout — typically 7 to 14 days, and longer in some countries; Stripe sets the schedule — that SkillsetMind cannot waive. The absence of a SkillsetMind hold does not shorten Stripe's own timeline. You must complete Stripe's identity verification to receive payouts.
• Refunds, chargebacks and negative balances — as merchant of record you bear the refunds, disputes (chargebacks) and Stripe dispute fees on your sales. Stripe debits student refunds within the 7-day window, and any dispute, from your Stripe balance. Our platform fee on a refunded sale is returned to you with the refund; it is not returned when a sale is lost to a dispute. SkillsetMind cannot reverse a dispute on your behalf. If refunds, disputes or fees leave your Stripe balance negative, Stripe may debit your bank account to cover it, and SkillsetMind may pause your sales or payouts until the balance is settled. Repeated abnormal chargeback rates may lead to review of your account.

• What it is — a one-time activation fee of US$25 that unlocks publishing and the tools that sell a published course: coupons, manual course access and a custom domain. Drafting courses, uploading video and connecting Stripe do not require it. It is charged once per creator account, never per course, and it is not a subscription. SkillsetMind charges it on its own Stripe account; it is not a sale on yours.
• When it is charged — when you publish your first course, only if you complete the activation checkout yourself in the studio, and only while SkillsetMind requires activation. Where professional verification is required, it must be approved before you can pay. SkillsetMind never charges the fee automatically.
• Invitations and waivers — an invitation may waive the fee. A waiver granted after you have already paid does not refund the fee you paid.
• Refunds — we refund the activation fee if it was charged twice or in error, if your professional verification is rejected, if Stripe payouts are not available in your country, or if you ask within 7 days of payment and have not published a course. Otherwise it is non-refundable. To ask, email support@skillsetmind.com. A refunded fee closes your storefront and blocks publishing again until the fee is paid again or waived.

You are responsible for your own taxes on your earnings, including income tax and any VAT/GST or local obligations that apply to you as an independent professional. SkillsetMind and Stripe may issue tax forms or collect tax information where the law requires.

Your course pages, testimonials, and promotions must be truthful. Do not guarantee clinical outcomes, cures, or income results. Testimonials must be genuine and may not imply results that are not typical.

We may pause or remove a course, or suspend an educator account, for violation of these terms, with notice and a chance to fix the issue where the violation is fixable. Fraud, credential misrepresentation, or student-safety issues may lead to immediate removal.

If a course is removed or you close your account, students who already bought it keep access to what they purchased (or receive a refund handled per the refund policy), and beforehand you may download your student rosters and request an export of your content. SkillsetMind never receives or holds your sale proceeds — they are paid into your own Stripe account — so there is no SkillsetMind balance of yours to release. A refund we process on your behalf under the refund policy is still debited from your Stripe balance, as described in Section 7.

You will indemnify SkillsetMind against claims arising from your content, your professional conduct, your marketing claims, or your handling of student data. The warranty disclaimers and liability limits in the Terms of Service apply equally to your educator activity.

Material changes to these terms — especially to commission or payout mechanics — will be announced before they take effect, and we will update the effective date above. Questions: support@skillsetmind.com or legal@skillsetmind.com. Governing law and dispute resolution follow the Terms of Service.