These terms apply when you publish a course on Hunarzai. They sit alongside our general terms of use. “Hunarzai”, “we” and “us” mean Hunarzai (SMC-Private) Limited, a company incorporated in Pakistan under the Companies Act, 2017 (SECP CUIN 0365425), whose registered office is at Balar Khel, P.O. and Village Marghuz, Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Your courses
- Before your courses can go live, we verify who you are. You send your CNIC, a WhatsApp number, your qualification and a short sample lesson. We use these only to confirm your identity, contact you and pay you, and only the Hunarzai team can see them.
- You create your course, set its price and choose how it’s taught: recorded, live or both.
- Every course must meet our published quality standards before it can be sent for review.
- Every course is checked by our team before it goes live. We may ask for changes, and we may decline a course that doesn’t meet our standards. We can also take a live course down if it breaks these terms or students report a serious problem.
- Once your course is live (or has students), bigger changes wait for our team to approve them, and students keep seeing the approved version until then. These include new, replaced or removed videos and video links, notes, files and quizzes, new or deleted sections and lessons, and course details such as the title, web address, subtitle, description, category, format, board, class, stream, level, language, length, fee, image, outcomes and requirements. Smaller changes show straight away: lesson and section titles, their order, lesson lengths, free previews, and live class details, schedule, batch size and welcome note. Please keep your course accurate and up to date.
- If students are enrolled in your course, you can't remove it without agreeing a date with us first, so students aren't left part-way through.
- Lesson videos are uploaded on the course’s Videos page, or linked from YouTube or Vimeo. Live classes use Zoom, Google Meet or Microsoft Teams links. The teacher name and details on your courses come from your teacher profile.
- Live classes are planned in batches. Students can join a live course until half of its batch's classes have started. After that it's closed to new students until you plan the next batch. Hybrid courses stay open, because their recorded lessons are there for everyone. If you add classes while a batch is running, you choose whether they’re more classes for that batch or a new batch that new students can join. Each student is in one batch and gets that batch’s classes and reminders; you can move a student who hasn’t finished to a batch that still has classes to come. Students who join late rely on recordings of the classes they missed, so please add a recording after each class.
Prices
To keep courses affordable, each type of course has a maximum price:
- Recorded courses: up to PKR 4,999
- Live courses: up to PKR 9,999
- Hybrid courses: up to PKR 7,999
While our launch prices run, students pay the launch price for each course type or your price, whichever is lower, and your share is worked out on that price. We may change the caps or the launch prices. If we do, we’ll tell you first.
What you earn
- Students pay Hunarzai. You earn 60% of your course’s price before any discount (the launch price while it runs), unless we agree a different share with you in writing. A discount you give (a coupon, or a top-up in a Hunarzai sale) comes out of your share.
- If the student bought after opening your own teacher link in the previous 30 days, you earn 90% of the price after any Hunarzai discount instead, and never less than your normal share. This higher share is limited so that Hunarzai still covers its payment fees and tax on the sale. Links are shown in your dashboard. You must not use fake accounts, paid sign-ups or purchases of your own courses to earn this higher share. If you do, we can reverse those earnings and close your teacher account.
- Your share is fixed at the moment each sale is approved. If your share changes later, it only applies to new sales.
- From time to time Hunarzai runs site-wide sales and gives Hunarzai coupon codes. Hunarzai pays for these discounts: your earning stays what it would be without them. Hunarzai’s discount is taken from the lowest price your course had in the previous 30 days, and your share is of that price. On your Coupons page you can take a course out of Hunarzai sales, or add a top-up from your own share to make the sale bigger.
- Your own coupons can be up to your share of the price. At your full share you earn nothing on that sale. A coupon can combine with one Hunarzai discount, up to a total limit we set.
- At launch, students who joined our waitlist get a one-off discount on one course. Your share on those sales is of the price the student actually paid, so it’s lower on those sales.
- If we accept a payment that is less than the price, the difference comes out of Hunarzai’s part first.
- When an affiliate brings a student, their commission comes out of Hunarzai’s part of the sale, not yours.
- Your teacher link only counts when it brings someone from outside Hunarzai (your WhatsApp, social media, website or students). Links placed inside Hunarzai itself, such as in a course description or an answer, don’t count. You can’t buy or review your own course.
- Schools and organisations can buy seats on your course in bulk. Each seat is sold at a per-seat price Hunarzai agrees with the school, which may be lower than your course price. Your share is worked out on that seat price, and it’s earned once the school has paid us for its seats. Students who join through a school code can’t ask us for a refund.
- Students can ask for a refund within 30 days, and on live and hybrid courses only before your second live class starts after paying (see our refund policy), so each sale becomes payable to you 30 days after it’s approved.
- We pay you twice a month, on the 1st and the 15th, for every sale that has passed its hold period, by JazzCash, Easypaisa or bank transfer to an account in your name. Your Earnings page shows what is payable and every payment we've sent. We pay out once you’re owed at least PKR 1,000; a smaller balance carries over to the next payout date. If you stop teaching on Hunarzai, we pay whatever is left, however small. Hunarzai pays the charges for sending your payment. Any fee your own bank or wallet charges to receive it is yours.
- If a student gets a refund, you don’t earn on that sale. If we’ve already paid you for it, we take it off your next payment.
- You’re responsible for any tax on what you earn.
Founding teachers
- The first 100 teachers to have a course approved and live on Hunarzai become Founding teachers, numbered #1 to #100 in the order their first course went live. It’s given automatically and once per teacher, and numbers are never reused.
- Founding teachers get a numbered Founding teacher badge on their teacher profile and courses.
- For 12 months from the day you become a Founding teacher, your profile is featured on the Hunarzai homepage for 3 days every month (Pakistan time). Your days depend on your number and are shown on your dashboard. You’re featured only while you have at least one course live; days missed while you have none aren’t made up later. We choose how the homepage looks, and featuring isn’t a promise of any number of students or sales.
- We can withdraw the badge, and the featuring with it, if you break these terms. We’ll tell you why, and you can contact support if you think it’s a mistake.
Your content
- You keep ownership of your course. You give Hunarzai permission to host, show and promote it, and to let enrolled students use it, for as long as it’s on Hunarzai and for students who have already enrolled.
- You must own, or have permission to use, everything in your course: videos, music, images, slides and notes. Don’t copy other people’s courses.
- Nothing illegal, hateful, misleading or unsafe. No promises of guaranteed jobs or income.
- AI help (when switched on) can draft parts of your course, such as the description, outline, notes and quiz questions. A draft is only a starting point: you are responsible for everything you publish, so check every fact, answer and date before you save it. Only send AI your own material, and never students’ personal details.
Students
- You can see your students’ names and progress. To protect their privacy, we don’t share their phone numbers, emails or payment details.
- Please don’t ask students to pay you directly or move them off Hunarzai for the same course.
- Be respectful in live classes and messages, the same as we ask of students.
Keeping students safe
Many of our students are under 18. These rules apply to every course, live class and message.
- Talk to students only on Hunarzai: course Q&A, announcements and the live classes listed on the course. Don’t share or ask for phone numbers, WhatsApp, emails or social media; Hunarzai blocks them in posts.
- Never ask a student to turn their camera on, and never record or share a student’s face or voice outside the class recording on Hunarzai.
- Never meet a student in person or privately online through Hunarzai teaching.
- Keep every lesson, message and class suitable for the youngest students who can join the course.
- If a student tells you they’re at risk, or you see something worrying, tell us straight away through Report a course or person.
Breaking these rules can mean your courses are taken down and this agreement ends.
Ending the agreement
You can stop teaching with us at any time by contacting us. We can end this agreement if you break these terms. Either way, we pay you what you’ve earned up to that point, minus any refunds.
The law that applies
These terms are governed by the laws of Pakistan. Any dispute will be handled by the courts of Pakistan.