Terms
What each of us is agreeing to.
Last updated 11 September 2026. These terms are an agreement between you and Langford Academy (“Langford”, “we”). They apply to this website and, once it opens, to the Langford app. Using either means accepting them.
What Langford is
We are the place teachers and students find each other, and the system that holds the money and the record of the class. We are not the teacher. The class itself is between the teacher and whoever booked it, and the teacher is responsible for what they teach and how.
Accounts
- One person, one account. Do not share a login.
- A parent account can hold several children and is responsible for what is booked on it.
- Anyone under 18 needs a parent or guardian to hold the account and accept these terms on their behalf.
- We can suspend an account that is being used to harass someone, to defraud someone, or to get around verification.
Booking and paying
- The teacher sets the fee. It is shown in full before you book, and there is no booking charge on top of it.
- Payment is taken at booking and held. It reaches the teacher after the class has run and the register is marked.
- Cancel more than 12 hours before the class and the fee returns in full.
- A teacher may run a class at no charge. That is their decision, and the same terms apply to it.
When a class does not happen
- If the teacher does not appear, the class can be marked a no-show 15 minutes after the start time and the fee returns automatically.
- If a student does not appear, the class ran and the fee is not returned.
- If a fault on our side means the class cannot run for more than half of its scheduled time, the fee is refunded in full.
Teachers
- You are self-employed. You are not our employee and this is not a contract of employment.
- You set your own fee and can change it whenever you like.
- You must complete verification before you can take a booking, and stay verified to keep taking them.
- We keep 12% of the fee for each class that runs, falling to 8% once you have completed 50 classes. Nothing is taken from a class that does not run.
- Payouts are made weekly, covering the classes completed that week, to the bank account on your profile. There is no minimum.
- You are responsible for your own tax.
Behaviour
Classes are a place of work for the teacher and a classroom for the student. Anything that would get you removed from a real one gets you removed from this. Safeguarding reports are acted on the same day, and a substantiated one removes a teacher permanently.
Content
What a teacher makes stays theirs. By publishing it on Langford, a teacher gives us a licence to show it to the students booked into that class and to display the parts of their profile that appear in search. Class recordings are kept for seven days, so booked students can watch them back, and are then deleted.
What we are not liable for
We run the platform with reasonable care and skill. We are not responsible for what a teacher says or teaches in a class, for exam results, or for losses caused by events outside our reasonable control, such as a power or internet failure on your side.
Where we are liable, our total liability to you is limited to the fees you paid through Langford in the three months before the problem arose. Nothing in these terms limits any right you have under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019, or any liability that cannot be limited by law.
Changing these terms
If we change something that matters, we will update the date at the top and, once you have an account, email you at least 14 days before the change takes effect.
Law
These terms are governed by the laws of India. Any dispute that cannot be settled between us will be heard by the courts in Bengaluru, Karnataka.