Version 2.0 · 11 October 2026
This agreement sets out the terms on which you teach through MusicStudio. Please read it before you register. It covers commission, payments, tax, teaching obligations, safeguarding, intellectual property and what happens if something goes wrong.
1.1 This agreement is between Luteic Limited, trading as MusicStudio, registered in Ireland under company number 779344, with its registered office at 77 Camden Street Lower, Dublin 2, D02 XE80 ("MusicStudio", "we", "us"), and the teacher accepting this agreement ("you").
1.2 You are an independent professional providing tuition in your own right. You are not an employee, worker, agent or partner of MusicStudio. The contract for each lesson is between you and the student. MusicStudio provides the platform and collects lesson payments on your behalf.
1.3 This agreement is non-exclusive. You may teach privately or through other platforms, subject to the restrictions in clause 3.6 concerning students introduced through MusicStudio.
1.4 You must be at least 18 years old to register and teach through MusicStudio.
2.1 You appoint MusicStudio as your limited collection agent to collect lesson fees from students on your behalf, deduct commission and make payments to you. This appointment does not make MusicStudio the supplier of your tuition. Charges payable to MusicStudio in its own right, including any separately disclosed booking or administration charges, are not teaching fees collected on your behalf.
2.2 Payment of a lesson fee by a student to MusicStudio satisfies the student's obligation to pay you that fee, subject to applicable cancellation, refund and payment-dispute provisions.
2.3 Payments are processed through Stripe Connect. You authorise MusicStudio to give Stripe the instructions reasonably required to:
2.4 MusicStudio may withhold amounts reasonably necessary while investigating suspected fraud, payment disputes, chargebacks, serious contractual breaches or other legitimate financial claims. We may also suspend transfers where required by law, Stripe or applicable regulatory obligations. We may recover or set off amounts owed to MusicStudio as provided in clause 18.1.
2.5 Stripe collects and holds your full bank-account details. MusicStudio may receive limited account information, including the bank name, country and masked account identifiers, to administer payments and resolve problems. You are responsible for maintaining your bank and Stripe account information through Stripe.
2.6 MusicStudio and Stripe may exchange information necessary for verification, payment processing, fraud prevention, refunds, disputes and legal compliance. Our handling of personal data is described in our Privacy Policy.
2.7 You may withdraw your authorisation for MusicStudio to collect and process payments by notifying us in writing. Because platform bookings require these arrangements, MusicStudio may prevent further bookings through your account. Existing bookings must either be completed under the existing payment arrangements or cancelled and refunded. Fees already earned remain subject to the payment, withholding and recovery provisions of this agreement.
2.8 If Stripe restricts or closes your account, or cannot make a payment, MusicStudio may suspend new bookings until a lawful payment arrangement is available. Amounts properly owed to you will be held and paid when payment can lawfully and practically be made, subject to this agreement.
2.9 You must comply with Stripe's applicable connected-account terms and verification requirements. Stripe's own processing, transfer, reserve and bank-payout arrangements are governed by its terms.
3.1 You must hold and maintain any qualification, registration, licence, clearance or insurance required by law in the jurisdiction where you teach. You must ensure that the information in your teacher profile, including your qualifications, experience, location and teaching abilities, is accurate, complete and not misleading.
MusicStudio does not carry out criminal-record or child-protection clearance checks on teachers. Parents and guardians are responsible for assessing a teacher's suitability to teach their child, including requesting evidence of any relevant qualifications, experience and safeguarding clearance.
3.2.1 You are responsible for holding any child-protection clearance required by law in the jurisdiction where you teach.
3.2.2 A parent or guardian must be present in the room for a child's first lesson and remain nearby and within earshot for subsequent lessons. If the required supervision is absent, you must not begin the lesson.
3.2.3 You must inform MusicStudio immediately if any safeguarding clearance you hold is refused, withdrawn or restricted, or if you become the subject of a safeguarding allegation.
3.2.4 You must not accept or deliver lessons to children where doing so would breach applicable safeguarding laws.
You must use MusicStudio's communication and lesson facilities when communicating with students introduced through the platform. You must not share or request personal contact details, or arrange lessons or related communications outside MusicStudio.
This does not prevent you from contacting emergency services or reporting safeguarding concerns to the relevant authorities.
3.4 You must personally deliver the confirmed bookings to a reasonable professional standard. You may not substitute another teacher unless MusicStudio has separately approved that person to teach the relevant student.
3.5 You control your availability and are not required to offer a minimum number of lessons. When a student books an available time slot, the booking is automatically confirmed and you are expected to deliver the lesson.
If you cannot deliver a confirmed lesson, the cancellation provisions in clause 5 apply.
3.6.1 You must not arrange, accept, provide or receive payment for lessons outside MusicStudio with a student introduced to you through MusicStudio, whether directly or indirectly, and whether the arrangement is initiated by you, the student, a parent or another person. These restrictions protect MusicStudio's investment in attracting students and its commission-based business model.
3.6.2 This restriction applies for 12 months after your last contact or lesson with that student through MusicStudio, including where you stop teaching through MusicStudio.
3.6.3 You must not encourage, facilitate or assist a student in avoiding MusicStudio's booking or payment arrangements, including by referring the student to another booking channel or arranging for another person to provide the lessons outside the platform.
3.6.4 This restriction does not apply where you can demonstrate that you had an independent teaching relationship with the student before their introduction through MusicStudio. It does not prevent you from teaching other students privately, advertising your services generally or teaching on competing platforms.
3.6.5 Breach of this clause is a material breach of the agreement. MusicStudio may suspend your account, terminate the agreement in accordance with clause 15, and seek to recover commission it would otherwise have earned on lessons demonstrably diverted from the platform, together with other recoverable losses, subject to applicable law.
4.1 You set your own lesson prices, subject to any minimum or maximum prices supported by MusicStudio for your chosen currency. MusicStudio may update these limits from time to time.
4.2 MusicStudio may offer discounts, promotional prices or credits to students. Unless you have expressly agreed to participate in a teacher-funded promotion, these discounts will not reduce your earnings. The terms of any teacher-funded promotion, including how your earnings and MusicStudio's commission are calculated, will be agreed with you before the promotion applies.
4.3 You may change your price at any time. Changes do not affect existing bookings.
4.4 Lessons are offered in two lengths:
A student's first lesson with you is a 25-minute introductory lesson priced at half your normal 25-minute rate.
Each student may take one introductory lesson with you and one with each other teacher they try.
MusicStudio charges 50% commission on the introductory lesson.
Worked example — a teacher charging €45 for a 50-minute lesson:
| Item | Amount |
|---|---|
| Your standard 50-minute price | €45.00 |
| Your normal 25-minute price | €22.50 |
| Introductory lesson price | €11.25 |
| MusicStudio commission (50%) | €5.63 |
| You receive | €5.62 |
The introductory lesson therefore earns substantially less than an ordinary lesson. It is intended to help attract new students. All subsequent lessons are charged at your normal price and the applicable ongoing commission.
5.1 You choose your own availability and may change it at any time.
5.2 You may block individual dates or set vacation periods. Changing your availability does not automatically cancel existing bookings.
5.3 If you cancel a booked lesson, the student receives a full refund and you receive no fee for that lesson. Repeated cancellations or failures to attend may result in restrictions or suspension under clause 14.
6.1 You choose your own teaching methods, materials, repertoire and syllabus. MusicStudio does not direct how you teach.
6.2 You are responsible for providing and maintaining the equipment, internet connection and other facilities necessary to deliver your lessons.
6.3 You must comply with applicable law, MusicStudio's Terms of Service, the safeguarding provisions of this agreement and the rules concerning uploaded material in clause 10.
7.1 MusicStudio calculates commission on the applicable lesson price before any MusicStudio-funded promotional discounts. For introductory lessons, commission is calculated on the discounted introductory price in clause 4.5. Different arrangements may be agreed for teacher-funded promotions.
7.2 The commission on an introductory lesson is 50%. You receive the remaining 50%.
7.3 The commission on subsequent lessons is 15%, unless a different rate has been agreed with you individually. Any agreed individual rate will be recorded in your account and reflected in your earnings information.
7.4 Commission rates include any VAT chargeable by MusicStudio. No additional VAT will be added to the stated commission.
Where a student pays in a currency different from the currency in which the lesson is priced, MusicStudio may apply a cross-currency charge, disclosed to the student before payment. This charge is retained by MusicStudio and does not reduce the teacher's earnings.
7.6 The commission rate applying to a lesson is fixed when the lesson is booked. Subsequent rate changes do not affect existing bookings.
7.7 MusicStudio may change your commission rate by giving the notice required under clause 17. If you do not accept a change, you may terminate the agreement in accordance with that clause.
8.1 MusicStudio normally initiates transfers of eligible teacher earnings on the 1st and 15th of each month. Transfers may be delayed by payment processing, verification, disputes, technical issues or other circumstances permitted under this agreement.
Payments cover eligible lessons delivered before the applicable payment run, subject to refunds, disputes, verification, withholding and other provisions of this agreement.
Stripe subsequently pays funds to your bank account according to its own processing schedule.
You set your lesson prices in the currency supported by MusicStudio for your teacher account. Your earnings and MusicStudio's commission are calculated in that currency.
Where a student pays in another currency, the amount charged to the student is determined using the applicable exchange rate and conversion arrangements. This does not change your earnings in the currency in which you priced the lesson.
Refunds, reversals and chargebacks remain subject to this agreement.
8.3 A teaching fee is earned when a lesson has been delivered, subject to clause 12 for lessons that are cancelled, missed or only partly delivered.
8.4 Payment may be withheld until you have supplied the information required by clause 9 and completed Stripe's account verification requirements. Payments may also be withheld, adjusted or recovered in accordance with clauses 2 and 18.
8.5 You may request earnings statements showing lesson fees, commission and amounts paid.
MusicStudio can arrange payments to teachers in countries supported by our payment provider and our payment arrangements. Availability depends on your country, payment account, verification requirements and applicable laws.
We will confirm whether payments to your country are supported during account setup. The countries available may change as our payment arrangements develop.
8.7 If we cannot arrange payments to you, you must not make time slots available for booking until an appropriate payment arrangement is available. Please contact us if you are unsure whether your country is supported.
9.1 MusicStudio is subject to platform-operator tax reporting obligations, including DAC7 and its implementation in Ireland where applicable.
9.2 You must provide, and keep accurate, the information required for applicable tax reporting and verification, which may include:
9.3 MusicStudio normally requests this information after your teacher application has been approved rather than during the initial application.
You may be permitted to accept bookings before supplying all the information, but payments will be withheld until required information and verification are complete. We may restrict further bookings where information remains outstanding or the law requires us to do so.
9.4 Where required by law, MusicStudio will report information about you and your earnings to the Revenue Commissioners or other relevant tax authorities. We will provide you with any statements required by law.
9.5 You are responsible for determining and paying your own taxes, including income tax, PRSI, USC and VAT where applicable.
MusicStudio does not ordinarily withhold income tax from your earnings, unless required by law. You must inform us of changes in your tax or VAT status.
Stripe carries out the identity and account verification required for your connected Stripe account and collects your banking information directly.
Separately, MusicStudio may request a government-issued identity document to verify your identity. Where we complete our own identity verification, we may display a verification badge on your public profile.
Identity verification is not a verification of teaching qualifications or child-protection clearance.
MusicStudio handles identity information in accordance with its Privacy Policy.
9.7 MusicStudio retains tax and financial information for the periods required by applicable law. This generally includes six years for DAC7-related records and seven years for financial records subject to Irish accounting or VAT requirements.
Where different retention periods apply, we retain the relevant information for the period required by law.
10.1 You retain ownership of original materials you create and upload, including music, exercises, teaching notes and introduction videos.
Recordings of lessons and other video calls made through MusicStudio are managed by MusicStudio in accordance with our Privacy Policy. This agreement does not grant you ownership of those recordings.
10.2 You grant MusicStudio a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, transmit, display and back up your uploaded material where reasonably necessary to operate the platform, deliver lessons, moderate content, investigate complaints and comply with legal obligations.
You also grant MusicStudio permission to use your public profile, introduction video, photograph and other material you expressly designate for promotion to market MusicStudio and its teaching services.
This licence ends when the material is deleted, except where continued retention is permitted under clause 10.5 or required by law.
10.3 You must have the rights or permissions necessary to upload and use any material you share.
You must not upload commercially published sheet music, method books, examination material, recordings or other copyrighted content unless you have the necessary rights or a lawful exception applies.
10.4 MusicStudio may remove, disable or restrict access to material where we reasonably believe it infringes intellectual-property rights, breaches this agreement, creates a safeguarding risk or is otherwise unlawful or inappropriate.
We may act without advance notice where necessary. We will provide information about the action where reasonably practicable and legally permitted. You may raise an objection through our contact form.
10.5 MusicStudio may preserve relevant material where reasonably necessary for an ongoing complaint, safeguarding investigation, chargeback, legal claim or legal obligation, subject to applicable data-protection law.
10.6 You will indemnify MusicStudio against reasonable losses, liabilities, damages and costs, including reasonable legal costs, arising from third-party intellectual-property or unlawful-content claims to the extent caused by your breach of this agreement, infringement of third-party rights or unlawful conduct.
This does not apply to losses caused by MusicStudio's own wrongdoing.
11.1 You and MusicStudio are each responsible for complying with applicable data-protection laws in relation to the personal data you process.
You determine how you use student information for your teaching. MusicStudio determines how personal data is processed for operating the platform, including accounts, bookings, payments, security and handling reports it receives.
11.2 You must:
11.3 You must not use student information to contact or move students outside MusicStudio contrary to clauses 3.3 and 3.6.
Where personal data is transferred outside the European Economic Area, you and MusicStudio must comply with applicable data-protection laws and use any safeguards required by those laws.
MusicStudio may restrict access to personal data or platform services where necessary to meet these obligations.
Lessons and other video calls conducted through MusicStudio are recorded. Participants are informed before joining. Recordings are handled, accessed and retained in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
11.6 You must not submit students' personal data, recordings, photographs, contact details or information about children to third-party AI or automated services of your own.
This restriction does not prevent you from using tools provided within MusicStudio in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable platform rules.
12.1 MusicStudio determines the outcome of missed, interrupted or disputed lessons using reasonably available information, including platform records and information supplied by the teacher and student.
Where you do not attend or cannot deliver a booked lesson for reasons attributable to you, the student receives a full refund and no teaching fee is payable, except where neither party attends, as covered by clause 12.3.
Where the student does not attend but you are ready to teach, the cancellation and no-show provisions in our Terms of Service apply and you are paid accordingly.
Where neither the teacher nor the student attends, MusicStudio will attempt to rearrange the lesson.
If a new lesson time cannot be agreed, no teaching fee is payable to the teacher. MusicStudio may retain an administration charge of €20 plus applicable VAT, or its equivalent in the student's payment currency, capped at the total amount paid by the student for that lesson. Any balance will be refunded to the student, subject to applicable law.
This charge is retained by MusicStudio for its booking and rearrangement services and is not a teaching fee.
Where a student validly exercises a statutory right to withdraw from or cancel a booking, the refund and any teacher payment will be determined in accordance with applicable law. Otherwise, the normal cancellation terms apply.
Where a lesson ends early, any teacher payment or student refund depends on the circumstances, including why the lesson ended and how much tuition was delivered. A student leaving early or experiencing their own connection problems does not automatically reduce the teacher's fee.
Where a lesson cannot proceed because of a technical failure of MusicStudio's platform, refunds and any teacher payments will be determined in accordance with our Terms of Service and applicable law. MusicStudio is not obliged to pay the teacher for tuition not delivered.
Where a payment has already been credited or transferred and a refund, reversal or other adjustment becomes due, MusicStudio may recover or set off the relevant amount under clauses 2 and 18.
The main factors determining where teachers appear in search results include whether they have been featured by MusicStudio, their ratings and reviews, their availability, their teaching history on MusicStudio (including lessons completed and repeat bookings), and their participation in promotional offers.
Teachers who agree to participate in promotional offers may receive greater prominence in listings or appear higher in search results. Participation does not guarantee preferential placement.
Students may also sort results by rating, price, experience, number of lessons taught or date joined. Filters are applied according to the criteria selected by the student.
13.2 Reviews may be submitted by students who have booked and attended lessons. MusicStudio does not pay for reviews.
We may remove or restrict reviews that are unlawful, abusive, contain personal information, concern third parties, are fraudulent or do not relate to a genuine lesson.
13.3 MusicStudio may update its ranking and review arrangements, subject to applicable law and the notice requirements in clause 17.
MusicStudio may display your public teacher profile and offer bookings through other music-teaching websites or applications operated by Luteic Limited.
This may include your public name, photograph, introduction video, description, instruments, prices, availability, ratings and reviews.
Bookings made through those services remain subject to this agreement, including the same commission, payment and cancellation arrangements.
Non-public teacher information will not be displayed on those websites or applications.
14.1 MusicStudio may restrict or suspend your profile, bookings, payments or account access where reasonably necessary, including where:
14.2 MusicStudio may impose an immediate restriction or suspension where necessary to protect students, the platform, payment arrangements or other users.
We will provide reasons in accordance with applicable law, except where disclosure is prohibited or would compromise an investigation.
14.3 You may contact MusicStudio to provide relevant information or dispute a restriction. MusicStudio will consider the information received, without undertaking a separate independent appeals process unless required by law.
14.4 Suspension does not automatically extinguish properly earned teaching fees. However, payments may be withheld, recovered or set off where permitted under this agreement or required by law.
15.1 This agreement continues until terminated by either party.
15.2 You may terminate the agreement on 30 days' written notice.
Where MusicStudio notifies a change to this agreement under clause 17, you may terminate before the change takes effect in accordance with that clause.
15.3 MusicStudio may terminate this agreement by giving 30 days' written notice and a statement of reasons, where required by applicable law.
We may terminate without the ordinary notice period where permitted by law, including where a legal or regulatory obligation requires immediate termination, where an applicable imperative legal reason exists, or where repeated contractual infringements justify termination under applicable legislation.
Nothing in this clause prevents immediate restriction or suspension under clause 14.
15.4 On termination:
16.1 Nothing in this agreement excludes or limits liability for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.
16.2 Subject to applicable law, MusicStudio is not liable to you for indirect or consequential loss, loss of anticipated earnings, loss of business opportunity, loss of goodwill or loss arising from temporary platform unavailability.
Subject to clause 16.1 and applicable law, MusicStudio's total liability to you for ordinary contractual claims arising under or in connection with this agreement is limited to the greater of:
This cap does not extinguish teaching fees properly due to you, or limit liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including applicable data-protection liabilities.
You are responsible for your own teaching services and for losses caused by your breach of this agreement, negligence, unlawful conduct or infringement of third-party rights.
You will indemnify MusicStudio against reasonable third-party claims, liabilities, losses and legal costs to the extent arising from:
This indemnity does not apply to the extent a loss was caused by MusicStudio's own negligence, breach or unlawful conduct.
16.5 MusicStudio does not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free platform availability. Our obligations in respect of failed or interrupted lessons are governed by clause 12, subject to applicable law.
17.1 MusicStudio may update this agreement by notifying you in accordance with applicable law. Changes will take effect following any notice period required by law.
17.2 Changes may take effect sooner where an applicable legal exception permits, including certain urgent legal, regulatory, security or safeguarding requirements.
17.3 Where you do not accept a proposed change, you may terminate the agreement before it takes effect. The termination will take effect within the period required by applicable law, and you may remove your availability to prevent new bookings.
17.4 We will identify agreement versions by version number and date, and record the version you accepted. Required notices of changes will be provided in a durable form, such as email.
Where a student payment is refunded, reversed, disputed or charged back, MusicStudio may make the corresponding adjustment to the teacher's earnings, subject to the applicable lesson outcome and law.
Where funds have already been transferred, MusicStudio may recover amounts properly owed by reversing an eligible transfer, deducting them from future earnings or seeking repayment.
MusicStudio may also recover commissions and other losses arising from fraud, prohibited off-platform teaching or other breaches of this agreement, to the extent legally recoverable.
We may withhold reasonable amounts while a genuine payment dispute, fraud investigation or financial claim is being resolved.
Where a refund is required, the financial consequences will be determined by the applicable cancellation terms, the circumstances of the lesson, this agreement and the law.
MusicStudio may reverse associated commission or teaching payments as necessary to process the correct outcome.
Stripe may impose reserves, payment restrictions or negative balances under its own terms.
MusicStudio is not responsible for waiving or overriding Stripe's requirements.
Use of MusicStudio's payment facilities requires acceptance of the applicable Stripe terms.
Your relationship with Stripe is governed by those terms. MusicStudio's collection-agent authority and contractual rights are governed by this agreement and applicable law.
MusicStudio provides records of lesson fees collected, commission deducted and amounts transferred.
An earnings statement is not necessarily a VAT invoice.
Where MusicStudio issues receipts to students on your behalf, the teacher is identified as the supplier of the tuition where legally required.
You confirm that you are not subject to sanctions or restrictions that prohibit MusicStudio from providing services or making payments to you.
You must notify us of any change. MusicStudio may restrict or terminate services where required or permitted by applicable law.
You are responsible for maintaining any professional indemnity, public liability, safeguarding or other insurance required by law or reasonably appropriate to your teaching activities.
MusicStudio's own insurance does not provide cover for you.
If you become concerned that a student is at risk of harm, you must contact MusicStudio — through our safeguarding reporting route — and, where required, report the concern to the relevant authorities.
Where a child is in immediate danger, contact emergency services first.
MusicStudio is not an emergency service. Nothing in this agreement prevents or delays reporting a safeguarding concern to the appropriate authority.
19.1 This agreement is governed by the laws of Ireland. The courts of Ireland have exclusive jurisdiction, subject to any mandatory applicable legal rules.
19.2 Before starting legal proceedings, please raise your complaint through MusicStudio's contact form so that we have an opportunity to consider it and attempt to resolve the matter.
19.3 If any provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue to apply to the extent permitted by law.
Luteic Limited, trading as MusicStudio
Registered in Ireland — Company number 779344
Registered office: 77 Camden Street Lower, Dublin 2, D02 XE80
Version 2.0, 11 October 2026.