Edsteps provides a platform connecting mentors with students seeking educational and career guidance. By registering as a mentor on Edsteps, you agree to comply with and be bound by the operating policies, code of conduct, and legal terms detailed in this document.
To register and list yourself as a mentor on the platform, you represent and warrant that:
Mentors are independent service providers contracting with Edsteps. Nothing contained in these Terms shall be construed to create an employment, partnership, agency, joint venture, representative, or fiduciary relationship between the parties.
As independent contractors, mentors are not employees of Edsteps and are not entitled to employment benefits, including but not limited to health insurance, gratuity, paid leave, provident fund contributions, stock options, or worker's compensation.
Mentors may offer and perform guidance services on the platform, which include:
To ensure quality guidance, mentors must strictly adhere to the following professional rules:
Students introduced to you through Edsteps are users of the platform. You agree that all commercial relationships with these students must go through Edsteps.
These restrictions remain active during the mentor's listing on the platform and for a period of twelve (12) months following the last session/interaction with the student through the platform. Edsteps reserves the right to recover any lost commissions, legal costs, and business damages resulting from circumvention violations.
Mentors are strictly prohibited from soliciting, requesting, or sharing personal contact information to bypass the platform's messaging systems. This includes:
Mentors must respect student confidentiality and treat all student details as strictly confidential data. You must not:
You shall maintain strict confidentiality regarding all proprietary information. This includes details about platform algorithms, AI tools, pricing schemes, commercial models, internal communication systems, backend processes, and other mentors. Confidentiality obligations survive any termination of these Terms.
All platform technology, source code, systems, databases, websites, AI designs, brandings, methodologies, and materials remain the sole and exclusive property of Edsteps. Nothing in these Terms grants you any ownership or commercial licenses to the platform's intellectual property.
By uploading content to the platform (including profiles, descriptions, videos, testimonials, educational files, and reviews), you grant Edsteps a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual license to host, display, translate, promote, distribute, and reproduce that content to operate, market, and improve the platform.
Edsteps reserves the right to record, monitor, review, and investigate sessions, platform messaging, and booking records. This monitoring is carried out for quality assurance, safety, dispute resolution, compliance audits, platform protection, and mentor training. You consent to these recording practices.
Edsteps may verify your credentials, employment history, qualifications, and identity at any time. Failure to cooperate or provide verified documents (degrees, passport details, certificates) will lead to immediate profile suspension.
Students can rate and review mentors. Edsteps may investigate negative feedback, review rating manipulations, delete abusive or fake reviews, or deactivate profiles if ratings policy violations or retaliatory actions are detected.
Mentor payouts are governed by the specific payout structures, commissions, and rates established in the platform settings. Edsteps reserves the right to adjust commission rates, session prices, platform fees, and payment schedule structures at its sole discretion upon notice.
You are solely responsible for reporting income, filing local taxes (such as GST or service tax), and paying all tax obligations arising from payouts received on Edsteps. Edsteps will not be liable for your self-employment taxes or reporting compliance.
Payouts remain subject to compliance checks. Edsteps may withhold or reverse payouts if fraud, booking manipulation, or policy violations are suspected.
Edsteps may immediately suspend, restrict, or terminate your mentor profile and account if you breach these Terms, or if we suspect:
As a mentor, you must never guarantee, assure, or promise specific outcomes to students, including university admission approvals, visa issues, scholarships, specific job offers, starting salaries, or career progressions. All admissions and immigration outcomes remain subject to third-party decisions.
Edsteps reserves the right to modify, restrict, update, suspend, or discontinue any feature, service category, AI tool, pricing, or visibility model at its sole discretion, without liability to you.
During your association with Edsteps and for a period of twelve (12) months following the termination of your account, you agree not to directly or indirectly solicit, recruit, hire, or induce any employees, contractors, advisors, consultants, or other mentors of Edsteps to work for a competing business.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Edsteps shall not be liable to mentors for any admissions decisions, visa outcomes, career results, lost profits, or indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from platform listing or session execution.
These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of India. Any disputes arising out of your mentorship activities shall first be resolved through good-faith mutual discussions. If unresolved, disputes shall be referred to binding arbitration in Mumbai, India, in accordance with the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996.
All clauses relating to confidentiality, non-circumvention, data protection, intellectual property, payout verifications, limitations of liability, non-solicitation, and dispute resolution shall survive any termination or deactivation of your account.
By completing registration as a mentor on Edsteps, uploading credentials, or confirming sessions, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to these Mentor Terms & Conditions and agree to be legally bound by them.
If you have questions regarding payment settings, student circumvention policies, or profile compliance, get in touch with our team.
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