Teacher Agreement
1. Who this is between
Adyota Ventures LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company, 30 N Gould St Ste N, Sheridan, WY 82801, USA ("we", "us"), and you, as a Teacher providing reviews through BuffUp ("the Service"), published under our Derusty brand. You accept it when you enable the Teacher role on your account.
2. What you do
2.1 You receive invitations to review Student video. For each one you may accept or decline. Declining requires a reason, which the Student sees. You are never obliged to accept. An invitation a Student sent you directly ends if you do not answer within 7 days. A "Surprise me" match you do not answer within 48 hours goes to another Teacher.
2.2 On accepting, you agree to review the video with reasonable skill and care, within the scope the Student asked for, and to submit your feedback within a reasonable time. Feedback consists of timestamped tags, comments, voice notes and rubric scores.
2.3 You are not promising any outcome, competitive, technical or otherwise. You are giving your professional opinion, as the Terms tell Students.
2.4 If you cannot complete a review you have accepted, tell us at buffup@derusty.com so the Student can be told and can re-invite.
3. You are an independent contractor
3.1 You are self-employed. This Agreement does not create employment, agency, partnership or a joint venture. You control how and when you work, use your own equipment, and may teach anywhere else, including on competing platforms.
3.2 You are responsible for your own taxes, statutory contributions, registrations and insurance. We do not withhold or remit anything on your behalf.
3.3 You may not represent yourself as our employee, agent or representative, or hold yourself out as certified, endorsed or accredited by us. Our approving your account is an access decision, not an endorsement.
3.4 You may not subcontract a review or let anyone else use your account.
4. Confidentiality: Student video and data
This is the core of this Agreement.
4.1 Student video, the identity of the people in it, and everything you learn from it are confidential. You receive them for one purpose only: producing the feedback for that submission.
4.2 You must not, without the Student's express written permission:
- (a) show, send, publish or post the video, or any frame, clip, screenshot or recording of it, to anyone. That includes social media, in a showreel, in marketing, in a class, in a group chat, or to another teacher;
- (b) keep a copy outside the Service. If you download, screen-record or otherwise copy a video to do your work, delete every copy as soon as you have submitted the review;
- (c) use the video, or anything derived from it, to train, fine-tune or evaluate a machine-learning model, or upload it to any AI or third-party tool;
- (d) use it for any commercial purpose of your own;
- (e) identify a Student publicly as someone you have reviewed;
- (f) attempt to contact anyone appearing in a video who is not the Student who invited you.
4.3 Playback links are short-lived and issued to you. Do not forward them, paste them into shared documents or group chats, or save them anywhere others can reach.
4.4 Your access is logged. Every time you open a Student's submission we record who you are and when, in a log that cannot be edited or deleted. The Student can see that record.
4.5 If you become aware of any loss, unauthorised access or disclosure of Student content, tell us immediately at buffup@derusty.com, and in any event within 24 hours.
4.6 Submissions are erased within 180 days of upload, and never sooner than 30 days. You lose access to the video and your notes on it at the same moment the Student does.
4.7 These obligations continue indefinitely after you stop using the Service.
4.8 They do not apply to information that is public through no fault of yours, that you already lawfully held, or that you are legally compelled to disclose. In that last case, tell us first if you lawfully can.
5. Data protection
5.1 In handling Student personal data you act on our instructions and only for the purpose in clause 4.1. You are, in data-protection terms, processing that data on our behalf.
5.2 Follow our reasonable instructions on handling, retention and deletion, and cooperate promptly and without charge with any request we pass on from a Student exercising their rights (access, correction, erasure) under the Privacy Policy.
5.3 Do not transfer Student data to anyone else or to any other system.
6. Your feedback and our licence
6.1 You own your feedback: your comments, voice notes and rubric scores.
6.2 You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce and transmit that feedback so far as needed to deliver it to the Student and operate the Service. It permits no publication and no marketing use.
6.3 Structured review data. Separately, you grant us a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use the structured output of your reviews (the tags and rubric criteria you select, the scores you give, and the timestamps you attach them to) to operate, analyse and improve the Service, including building and training move-recognition and review-quality models. This is the labelling work, not your writing: it carries no student video, no voice note and none of your written comments. It survives termination of this Agreement.
6.4 Your written comments and voice notes are not covered by 6.3. We do not train models on them. If that changes we will ask you separately.
6.5 You grant the Student a perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the feedback for their own dance practice. They may not publish it commercially.
6.6 You warrant that your feedback is your own work and infringes nobody's rights. If you include a reference clip or other third-party material, you warrant you have the right to use it that way.
7. Conduct
7.1 Be professional and respectful. Feedback may be critical. It must be about the dancing and never demeaning about the person.
7.2 Do not harass, discriminate against, proposition or solicit a Student, or use the Service to route them to your own services in a way that circumvents it.
7.3 Do not misrepresent your qualifications, experience or credentials.
7.4 Do not give medical, physiotherapeutic or rehabilitation advice. If a Student describes an injury or a health condition, tell them to consult a qualified professional.
7.5 Do not review video in which you have reason to believe a person is under 18, or in which anyone appears not to have consented. Decline it and tell us.
8. Pricing and payment
8.1 You set your own prices, in up to 3 review tiers.
8.2 No money currently moves through the Service. Prices shown are indicative and nothing is charged. You will not be paid through the Service for reviews completed during this phase.
8.3 The Payment Terms set out our commission, payout timing and method, and refunds. They apply from the date payments are switched on, which you will get notice of. Reviews completed before then are not retrospectively payable.
8.4 In short: you are paid at least 82% of your own price, and more during any introductory offer we run for new Teachers, which starts when your payouts are set up. You cannot accept paid work until your Stripe payouts are set up.
8.5 Any arrangement you make to be paid by a Student outside the Service is between you and them. We are not a party to it and take no responsibility for it.
8.6 Payouts are provided by Stripe and are subject to the Stripe Connected Account Agreement that applies to your account, which Stripe shows you when you set up payouts, including the Stripe terms it incorporates (together, the "Stripe Terms"). By setting up payouts you agree to be bound by the Stripe Terms, as Stripe may modify them from time to time. You agree to give us accurate and complete information about yourself, and you authorise us to share it, and information about your transactions on the Service, with Stripe.
8.7 Your payout account is run through us rather than directly with Stripe, so we are how you hear about changes to the Stripe Terms. When Stripe tells us of a change that affects you, we will email you at the address on your account before it takes effect. If you do not agree to a change, you can stop taking paid work and close your payout account; continuing to receive payouts after it takes effect means you accept it.
9. Suspension and termination
9.1 Either of us may end this Agreement at any time on written notice. Please complete any review you have already accepted first.
9.2 We may suspend or remove your Teacher access immediately for a breach of clause 4 or 7, or if we are legally required to.
9.3 On termination you must delete every local copy of Student content (clause 4.2(b)) and confirm to us that you have.
9.4 Clauses 3.2, 4, 5, 6, 10 and 11 survive termination.
10. Liability
10.1 You are responsible for the feedback you give. If a Student brings a claim about your feedback or your conduct, it is yours to answer, and you will indemnify us against claims, losses and reasonable costs arising from your breach of clause 4, 5 or 7.
10.2 Our liability to you is subject to the limits in clause 14 of the Terms.
10.3 Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.
11. General
Governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, with exclusive jurisdiction in the state and federal courts located in Wyoming. We may update this Agreement on 30 days' notice; continuing to accept invitations after that means you accept the update. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest stands. You may not assign this Agreement.
How this is accepted: by enabling the Teacher role on your account. We record the date and the version you accepted.
Last updated: 25 October 2026. Version 2026-10-25.