Version 1.0 · 20 September 2026
This agreement sets out the terms on which you teach through MusicStudio. Please read it before you register. It covers commission, how and when you are paid, tax, your material, safeguarding, and what happens if something goes wrong.
1.1 This agreement is between Luteic Limited, trading as MusicStudio, registered in Ireland under number 779344, registered office 77 Camden Street Lower, Dublin 2, D02 XE80 ("MusicStudio", "we", "us"), and the teacher named at acceptance ("you").
1.2 You are an independent professional supplying tuition in your own right. You are not an employee, worker, agent or partner of MusicStudio. The lesson contract is between you and the student. MusicStudio supplies you with a platform service and collects payment on your behalf.
1.3 Nothing in this agreement creates an exclusive relationship. You are free to teach elsewhere, including on competing platforms, and to teach privately.
2.1 You appoint MusicStudio as your limited collection agent for the sole purpose of receiving lesson fees from students on your behalf. This appointment does not extend to any other purpose and does not make MusicStudio the supplier of the tuition.
2.2 Payment by a student to MusicStudio discharges the student's obligation to pay you for that lesson.
2.3 MusicStudio deducts its commission (clause 7) from the amount collected and remits the balance to you under clause 8.
3.1 You will hold and maintain any qualification, registration, licence, clearance or insurance required by law in the place where you teach.
3.2.1 You are responsible for holding whatever child-protection clearance the law requires of you — Garda vetting in Ireland, a DBS check in the United Kingdom, or the local equivalent where you teach. That responsibility is yours alone and does not pass to us because you teach through this platform.
3.2.2 You must not accept or deliver a lesson to a person under 18 unless you have completed the child-teaching declaration in your account, naming the clearance you hold and the jurisdiction that issued it. That declaration is a statement by you, not a check by us. The platform will refuse a booking that states the learner is under 18 where you have not made it — but we do not verify a learner's age either, so you must not treat the absence of a refusal as confirmation that a student is an adult.
3.2.3 We require a parent or guardian to be present in the room for a child's first lesson with you, and to remain nearby and within earshot for later lessons. If a parent is not present, say so and do not begin the lesson.
3.2.4 You will tell us immediately if any clearance you hold is refused, withdrawn or made subject to conditions, and if you are ever the subject of a safeguarding allegation, whether or not it relates to MusicStudio.
3.2.5 A declaration you know to be false is a material breach of this agreement under clause 14, and we will act on it.
3.3 You must not contact a student outside MusicStudio except as necessary to deliver a lesson, and must never move lessons or conversation to a personal phone number, email address or social-media account. This applies to every student and cannot be waived by the student or their parent.
3.4 You will teach the lessons you accept, personally, to a reasonable professional standard. You may not delegate or substitute a lesson unless the substitute has been separately onboarded, contracted, identity-checked and approved by MusicStudio for that category of student.
3.5 You are under no obligation to accept any particular booking, and no minimum number of lessons is required of you.
For six months after your last completed lesson with a student who was first introduced to you through MusicStudio, you will not actively solicit that student to take lessons with you outside the platform.
This does not prevent you from:
4.1 You set your own lesson price. MusicStudio does not set, cap or require a minimum price.
4.2 You may change your price at any time. A change does not affect lessons already booked.
4.3 Lessons are offered in two lengths: 50 minutes at your standard rate, and 25 minutes at half that rate.
4.4 The introductory lesson. A student's first lesson with you is a 25-minute introductory lesson at half your usual 25-minute price. It is available once per student. Commission on it is set by clause 7.2.
Worked example, for a teacher whose 50-minute price is €45:
| Your 50-minute price | €45.00 |
| Your normal 25-minute price | €22.50 |
| Introductory lesson, student pays | €11.25 |
| MusicStudio commission at 50% (clause 7.2) | €5.63 |
| You receive | €5.62 |
We state this in full because the effect is easy to miss: on the introductory lesson you receive roughly one eighth of your 50-minute rate. That is the deliberate cost of acquiring a student, shared between us — every subsequent lesson with them is at your normal price and your normal commission.
5.1 You set your own availability, and may change it at any time.
5.2 You may block individual dates, set a vacation period, and connect an external calendar. Blocking availability never cancels an existing booking; cancelling is always a separate, explicit act by you.
5.3 If you cancel a booked lesson, the student receives a full refund and no fee is payable to you for that lesson. You are not charged a penalty. Repeated cancellation may lead to action under clause 14.
6.1 You choose your own teaching method, materials, repertoire and syllabus. MusicStudio does not direct how you teach.
6.2 You will comply with the acceptable-use rules in our Terms of Service, the upload rules set out in clause 10, and the safeguarding requirements in clause 3.2.
7.1 MusicStudio charges a commission on each lesson, deducted from the amount collected from the student.
7.2 Introductory lesson: 50%. You keep the other 50%. Both of us are investing in winning the student; the introductory lesson is where the platform's cost of acquiring them sits.
7.3 All other lessons: 15%, unless we have agreed a different rate with you individually. Where an individual rate has been agreed, it is recorded on your account and shown to you in your earnings statements, and it applies in place of the 15%.
7.4 All commission rates are inclusive of any applicable VAT. A commission of 15% on a €45 lesson is €6.75 in total, and no further amount is charged to you.
7.5 Foreign currency. Where a student pays in a currency other than euro, MusicStudio applies a 2% cross-currency charge, which forms part of our commission. Your euro entitlement under clause 8.2 is unaffected. The charge is met from our commission, not from your fee — we carry the cost of currency movement, and you receive the euro amount fixed at booking whatever the exchange rate does afterwards.
7.6 The commission rate applying to a lesson is fixed at the moment of booking. A later change to your rate does not affect lessons already booked.
7.7 We may change your commission rate on not less than 15 days' written notice. If you do not accept the change you may terminate under clause 15 before it takes effect.
8.1 Fees are paid twice monthly, on the 1st and the 15th, covering the period then ended. Where we have moved you to a payment provider that holds a connected account in your name, we transfer your fee into that account once a lesson has been delivered, and the provider then pays it out to your bank on its own schedule. We will tell you which arrangement applies to you.
8.2 You are owed a fixed euro amount, determined at the moment of booking. Where a student pays in another currency, the euro amount payable to you is fixed at that point using the European Central Bank reference rate, and does not change afterwards. Currency movement between booking and payment is carried by MusicStudio, not by you.
8.3 A fee is earned when the lesson has been delivered. Clause 12 governs lessons that do not take place.
8.4 We will not pay you until you have given us the tax information required by clause 9 and valid payment details.
8.5 You may download a statement of every lesson, the commission charged and the amount paid, for any period.
9.1 MusicStudio is a reporting platform operator for the purposes of DAC7 (Council Directive (EU) 2021/514, as implemented in Ireland). We are required to collect, verify and report specified information about you to the Revenue Commissioners.
9.2 You will give us, and keep up to date: your full legal name; your date of birth or, for a company, its registration number; your address; every jurisdiction in which you are tax resident and your tax identification number in each (your PPS number in Ireland), or the reason you have none; your VAT number and status; and your bank account details.
9.3 We ask for this after you have been approved, not before, and we cannot pay you until we have it. We deliberately do not collect tax identifiers or identity documents from applicants who have not yet been accepted. Once you are approved your profile is public and you may take bookings immediately — but any fee you earn is held, and not paid out, until your tax information is complete. This is not a matter of our discretion. You can complete it at any time from the Tax tab of your profile, and everything held for that reason becomes payable as soon as you do.
9.4 We will report to Revenue the consideration paid to you, the number of lessons, and the fees and commission charged, by quarter. We will give you a copy of what we report about you by 31 January each year.
9.5 We may also be required to report payments to you under Form 46G.
9.6 You are responsible for your own taxes, including income tax, PRSI, USC and VAT. MusicStudio does not withhold tax from payments to you. You will tell us if your VAT status changes.
9.7 Where your payment provider verifies your identity, we do not duplicate what they hold. We keep confirmation that verification was completed, not copies of your identity documents, and your bank details stay with the provider wherever possible.
9.8 Retention. DAC7 requires the seller information in clause 9.2 and its supporting evidence to be kept for six years. Irish books-and-records and VAT rules require financial records for seven years. We therefore apply seven years to the records that fall under both, and six to those that fall only under DAC7. Where you ask us to delete your data and you have earned through MusicStudio, we keep only that legally required minimum and delete everything else. This is set out in our Privacy Policy.
10.1 You keep ownership of everything you upload — sheet music you have written, exercises, lesson notes, recordings and whiteboards.
10.2 You grant MusicStudio a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, encrypt, transmit, display and back up that material, solely so we can deliver the platform to you and your students, moderate it, and retain it as evidence in a safeguarding or dispute investigation. The licence ends when the material is deleted, except where clause 10.5 or a legal obligation requires us to retain it.
10.3 You warrant that you have the right to upload everything you upload. In particular you must not upload complete method books, commercially published scores, or examination material, unless you hold the rights or a licence to do so.
10.4 If we receive a notice that material infringes someone's rights, or that it is unlawful, we will review it and may remove or restrict access to it. We will tell you what was removed and why, and you may appeal in writing; an appeal is considered by someone who was not involved in the original decision, and we respond within 14 days. Two or more separate, credible reports about the same material may cause it to be withheld while we review it.
10.5 We do not delete material that is the subject of an open safeguarding concern, complaint, chargeback or legal claim until the matter is resolved.
10.6 Indemnity. You will indemnify MusicStudio against loss arising from material you upload where the infringement or illegality was knowing, reckless or materially negligent on your part, including our reasonable legal and takedown costs. This does not apply to an honest mistake about the scope of a licence or an educational exception.
11.1 In respect of your students, you and MusicStudio are each independent controllers. You determine how you teach and what notes you keep about a student's progress; we determine how the account, booking, payment, moderation and safeguarding processing is done.
11.2 You will:
11.3 You will not contact a student outside the platform except as necessary to deliver a lesson, and never to move them off the platform (clause 3.6).
11.4 Where you are established outside the European Economic Area and receive personal data of students in the EEA, we will provide you with the European Commission's standard contractual clauses and any transfer assessment they require, and ask you to enter into them with us. This is what permits us to work with teachers worldwide.
Before we approve you, we hold a short video welcome call with you, and we record it. You are asked to agree before the call starts, and if you do not want to be recorded, tell us and we will arrange the call another way.
We delete that recording after 30 days — the same period as a lesson recording. We keep it that long so the approval decision can be reviewed if a safeguarding concern is raised shortly afterwards; we do not keep it as a long-term record of you. It is never shown to students, it plays no part in how you are ranked, and it is not used for marketing or for training any model.
11.6 You must not enter a student's personal data — their name, contact details, recordings, photographs or anything about a child — into any AI or automated service of your own. The tools we provide inside MusicStudio are the exception, and are covered by our Privacy Policy.
12.1 The outcome depends on the cause. In determining it we consider all reasonably available evidence — including connection and activity records, communications, and information supplied by you and by the student. Platform records are evidence, not proof: they can be incomplete or wrong, and they are not treated as conclusive against either of us.
12.2 You did not attend, or could not deliver: no fee is payable to you, and the student is refunded in full.
12.3 The student did not attend: the cancellation terms in our Terms of Service apply and you are paid accordingly.
12.4 The lesson was delivered in part: you are paid pro rata for the tuition delivered.
12.5 You attended and were ready to teach, and the lesson failed because of a fault in the platform: the student is not charged, and MusicStudio pays you a minimum of 50% of the lesson fee. We do not pass the cost of our own failure on to you.
12.6 Where a fee has already been credited to you and a determination reduces or removes it, we will tell you and give our reasons before reversing it or setting it off against a future payment.
12.7 You may appeal any determination under this clause in writing within 14 days. An appeal is considered by someone who was not involved in the original decision, and we respond in writing within 14 days.
13.1 Ranking. The main parameters determining where you appear in search results are: whether you have been featured by us; a rating score that combines your average rating with the number of reviews it is based on; and the number of reviews you have. Students may re-sort by rating, price, experience, lessons taught or how recently you joined. Filters remove teachers who do not match; they never reorder those who do.
13.2 You cannot pay for placement, and nor can anyone else. No part of ranking is for sale.
13.3 Reviews. Only a student who booked and actually had a lesson with you may review it. We do not pay for reviews. We will not remove a review because you disagree with it, and we do not edit what a student wrote. We remove a review only where it is unlawful, abusive, names a third party, contains personal contact details, or is clearly not about a lesson that took place.
13.4 Our published reviews and ranking methodology forms part of these terms.
14.1 We may restrict or suspend your account where:
14.2 Except where the law prevents us, or where doing so would prejudice a safeguarding investigation, we will give you a statement of reasons before or promptly after any restriction or suspension.
14.3 You may appeal, in writing, and we will respond within 14 days. An appeal is considered by someone not involved in the original decision.
14.4 A suspension does not by itself remove your right to be paid for lessons already delivered.
15.1 This agreement continues until terminated.
15.2 You may terminate at any time on 30 days' notice, or immediately if we change your commission rate under clause 7.7 and you do not accept the change.
15.3 We may terminate on 30 days' notice, giving you a statement of reasons at the same time. We may terminate immediately, with reasons given as soon as we are able, for material breach, on safeguarding grounds, or where the law or a court requires it.
15.4 On termination: lessons already booked will either be delivered or cancelled and refunded; you will be paid everything you have earned in the ordinary payment run; and clauses 3.6, 9, 10.2, 10.5, 11 and 16 survive.
16.1 Neither of us excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or deliberate misconduct, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded.
16.2 Subject to 16.1 and 16.4, neither of us is liable to the other for loss of earnings, loss of opportunity, or any indirect or consequential loss.
16.3 Subject to 16.1 and 16.4, each party's total liability to the other in any 12-month period is limited to the greater of €5,000 and the total commission charged in that period.
16.4 The cap in 16.3 does not apply to:
17.1 We will give you at least 15 days' notice of any change to this agreement. Where a change is required by law or is needed to address a security or safeguarding risk, it may take effect sooner.
17.2 If you do not accept a change, you may terminate before it takes effect.
17.3 Each version of this agreement carries a version number, shown at the top of this page. We record which version you accepted and when.
18.1 Chargebacks and fraudulent payments. Where a student's payment is reversed by their bank after your fee has been transferred, we may recover it from you by offset against future fees or, if none arise, as a debt. We will tell you and give our reasons first, and you may appeal under clause 12.7.
18.2 Refund allocation. Where a refund is due under clause 12 or under our Terms of Service, it is met in the proportions clause 12 sets out. A refund arising from our fault does not reduce your fee.
18.3 Reserves and negative balances. Your payment provider may hold a reserve against your account or place it in a negative balance following a reversal, and will normally recover that from your future earnings. Those are the provider's terms, not ours, and we cannot waive them.
18.4 Payment-provider terms. Being paid through MusicStudio requires you to accept your payment provider's own terms directly with them. We are not a party to that agreement.
18.5 Invoices and receipts. We issue a commission invoice to you (clause 7.4). Where we issue a receipt to a student on your behalf, it identifies you as the supplier of the lesson.
18.6 Sanctions and restricted countries. You confirm you are not subject to sanctions and are not resident in a jurisdiction we cannot lawfully serve. We maintain a list of countries from which we cannot accept teachers and will tell you if it changes in a way that affects you.
18.7 Insurance. You are responsible for holding any professional indemnity, public liability or safeguarding insurance appropriate to your teaching and required in your jurisdiction. MusicStudio's insurance does not cover you.
18.8 Emergency and safeguarding reporting. If you become concerned during or after a lesson that a student is at risk of harm, you must report it to us immediately, using our safeguarding reporting route, and, where the law of your jurisdiction requires, to the relevant authority. Nothing in this agreement, including confidentiality, prevents or delays that. If a child is in immediate danger, contact the emergency services first — we acknowledge a report within 24 hours and we are not an emergency service.
19.1 This agreement is governed by the law of Ireland, and the courts of Ireland have exclusive jurisdiction.
19.2 Before starting proceedings, please raise the matter with us through our complaints route; we will respond within 14 days.
Luteic Limited, trading as MusicStudio. Registered in Ireland, company number 779344. Registered office: 77 Camden Street Lower, Dublin 2, D02 XE80. Version 1.0, 20 September 2026.