Promotions Policy
Promotions Policy
This Promotions Policy updated on March 20, 2021.
This Promotions Policy (“Policy”) includes information about methods that Visionara Academy instructors can use to promote their content, including instructor coupons, course referral links, and Visionara Academy’s optional marketing programs. This Policy is incorporated by reference into our Terms of Use and Instructor Terms. Any capitalized terms that aren’t defined in this Policy are defined as specified in the Terms of Use or Instructor Terms.
Any version of this Policy is in English language and you understand and agree that the English language will control if there is any conflict.
1. Instructor Coupons & Course Referral Links
As an instructor, you may be able to increase your sales by promoting your course through a course referral link or coupon code. You may generate a coupon code for a discount or at Visionara Academy’s current price, as permitted within the Services. Note that the actual discount may be slightly higher due to rounding and currency conversion. When a student applies your discount coupon to a foreign currency transaction, we will apply a proportional discount in the student’s applicable currency.
Where a student applies your coupon code or course referral link at checkout, your revenue share will be 97% of the Net Amount less any applicable deductions, such as student refunds.
Alternatively, you may be able to generate 100%-off coupons to offer your paid course for free. These coupons may be subject to limits, and you may not sell free coupons on third-party websites or otherwise offer them in exchange for compensation.
2. Promotional Programs
2.1 How the Promotional Programs Work
Visionara Academy offers premium instructors several optional marketing programs (“Promotional Programs”), which you can opt into your instructor settings or by a written agreement (including by email) between you and Visionara Academy for certain programs as detailed below. The specific programs offered may change from time to time. In connection with the Promotional Programs, your content may also be priced higher at Visionara Academy’s discretion.
Not all deals or programs will be available in all geographic territories or for all Visionara Academy content. Visionara Academy has sole discretion to determine which content to offer as part of the Promotional Programs and to set or update sale prices. Visionara Academy may remove any of your content from the Promotional Programs at any time and in its sole discretion, with or without notice to you.
The discount amounts referenced below are approximate, as the actual discount may be slightly higher due to rounding and currency conversion. Visionara Academy does not guarantee any minimum level of success in connection with the Promotional Programs.
2.2 Visionara Academy Deals Program
The Visionara Academy Deals Program helps increase your revenue potential by enabling Visionara Academy to offer your content at a compelling discount and list price as part of targeted promotions. The Deals Program allows Visionara Academy to offer your content to students at a discounted price or list price no lower than $10 USD (or local equivalent), except in Australia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa, and Turkey and sales to Visionara Academy’s resellers or distributors, where the price may be lower.
Where a sale to a Visionara Academy reseller or distributor results in a sale price for your content that is lower than permitted by this Policy, Visionara Academy will calculate your revenue share based on a Gross Amount permitted by this Policy.
Deals Program deals may be promoted through the Services, communications to users, or third-party platforms, and the duration of the deals may vary.
By participating in the Deals Program, you agree that your revenue share will be 50% of the Net Amount of the sale less any applicable deductions, such as student refunds.
2.3 Marketing Boost Program
Visionara Academy has a network of tens of thousands of affiliate sites and established relationships with third-party deal sites. We also have a team dedicated to placing paid digital advertisements. Through the Marketing Boost Program, Visionara Academy leverages these partner sites and advertising platforms to promote your content to new students at no up-front cost to you.
By participating in the Marketing Boost Program, you authorize Visionara Academy to employ third parties, including resellers, distributors, affiliate sites, deal sites, and paid advertising on third-party platforms (together, “Advertising”) to promote your content. In calculating your revenue, Visionara Academy may deduct fees associated with this Advertising from the Gross Amount before calculating the Net Amount of the sale.
By participating in the Marketing Boost Program, you agree that your revenue share will be 25% of the Net Amount of the sale less any applicable deductions, such as student refunds.
2.4 Subscription Programs
Premium instructors may also participate in our subscription programs, including the Visionara Academy for Business (“TFB”) Program and Visionara Academy Subscription Program, subject to the additional terms in this section.
Because the collections associated with these programs are subscription-based, we may select sale prices and offer free trials at our discretion. While your content is included in a collection, you may not unpublish that content or make it private.
If you’ve agreed to provide any Assessment Questions (as defined below), you are also subject to the additional terms in Section 2.4.5 (Assessments).
2.4.1 Visionara Academy for Business Program
The Visionara Academy for Business collection (“Visionara Academy for Business Collection”) is a subscription-based content collection available to business customers, including private, public, non-profit, and government organizations (“TFB Customers”), featuring a select group of Visionara Academy’s top content for professional and personal development skills.
By opting into the Visionara Academy for Business Program, you agree to make all of your content eligible for inclusion in the Visionara Academy for Business Collection. We may elect whether to select your content for inclusion in the Visionara Academy for Business Collection, and may change the selection from time to time at our sole discretion.
2.4.1.1 TFB Revenue Share
By participating in the Visionara Academy for Business Program, you agree that your revenue share will be calculated as follows:
- Each month, Visionara Academy will calculate the total monthly subscription fees paid to Visionara Academy on behalf of all current TFB Customers minus any applicable Transaction Taxes, foreign exchange fees, and third-party payment processing fees.
- Twenty-five percent (25%) of this amount will be allocated to instructors participating in the Visionara Academy for Business Program ("TFB Instructor Revenue Pool") as further described below.
- Each month, Visionara Academy will calculate the total minutes of content (including course videos, quizzes, practice tests, and coding exercises) in the Visionara Academy for Business Collection consumed by all current TFB Customers ("Total TFB Minutes Consumed"). For clarity, the Total TFB Minutes Consumed does not include any consumption by access through a free trial.
- Each month, Visionara Academy will also calculate how many of the Total TFB Minutes Consumed are attributable to each of your items of content that were included in the Visionara Academy for Business Collection that month ("Your TFB Content Minutes").
- To calculate your revenue share each month, Visionara Academy will divide the TFB Instructor Revenue Pool by the Total TFB Minutes Consumed, then multiply that per-minute amount by Your TFB Content Minutes.
As Visionara Academy makes additional types of content (such as assessments and labs) available through the Visionara Academy for Business Collection, we may update subsection (3) above to specify additional types of content that will be included in the calculations to determine the Total TFB Minutes Consumed and Your TFB Content Minutes.
2.4.2 Visionara Academy Subscription Program
The Visionara Academy Subscription collection (“Visionara Academy Subscription Collection”) is a subscription-based collection of content and functionality available to individual and business customers (“Visionara Academy Subscription Customers”).
By participating in the Visionara Academy Subscription Program, you agree to make your content, as mutually agreed between us in writing (including by email), available for inclusion in both the Visionara Academy Subscription Collection and the Visionara Academy for Business Collection, as described in Section 2.4.1 (Visionara Academy for Business Program). For content accessed through the Visionara Academy for Business Collection, your revenue share will be calculated in accordance with Section 2.4.1.1 (TFB Revenue Share).
We may elect whether to select your content for inclusion in the Visionara Academy Subscription Collection, and may change that selection from time to time and at our sole discretion.
2.4.2.1 Visionara Academy Subscription Revenue Share
For any of your content included in the Visionara Academy Subscription Collection and accessed by Visionara Academy Subscription Customers who are not TFB Customers accessing through the Visionara Academy for Business Collection, your revenue share will be calculated as follows:
- Each month, Visionara Academy will calculate the total subscription fees paid by all current Visionara Academy Subscription Customers (other than TFB Customers) for that month, prorated for partial months and minus any applicable Transaction Taxes, refunds, foreign exchange fees, and third-party payment processing fees.
- Twenty-five percent (25%) of this amount will be allocated to instructors participating in the Visionara Academy Subscription Collection (“Visionara Academy Subscription Instructor Revenue Pool”) as further described below.
- Each month, Visionara Academy will calculate the total minutes of content (including course videos, quizzes, practice tests, and coding exercises) in the Visionara Academy Subscription Collection consumed by all current Visionara Academy Subscription Customers (other than as accessed through the Visionara Academy for Business Collection) (“Total Visionara Academy Subscription Minutes Consumed”).
- Each month, Visionara Academy will also calculate how many of the Total Visionara Academy Subscription Minutes Consumed are attributable to each of your items of content that were included in the Visionara Academy Subscription Collection that month (“Your Visionara Academy Subscription Content Minutes”).
- To calculate your revenue, share each month, Visionara Academy will divide the Visionara Academy Subscription Instructor Revenue Pool by the Total Visionara Academy Subscription Minutes Consumed, then multiply that per-minute amount by Your Visionara Academy Subscription Content Minutes.
As Visionara Academy makes additional types of content (such as assessments and labs) available through the Visionara Academy Subscription Collection, we may update subsection (3) above to specify additional types of content that will be included in the calculations to determine the Total Visionara Academy Subscription Minutes Consumed and Your Visionara Academy Subscription Content Minutes.
2.4.3 Subscription Programs Exclusivity
Except as otherwise provided for Assessment Questions below, once your content is included in the Visionara Academy for Business Collection or Visionara Academy Subscription Collection, you agree that you will not begin to offer any on-demand content, such as pre-recorded courses, that directly compete with or injure the sales of that content on any site or platform other than your own. For clarity, this doesn’t include literary works or in-person instructional trainings. If you choose to terminate your participation in the Visionara Academy for Business Program or Visionara Academy Subscription Program, you agree that this exclusivity provision will remain in place until we remove your content from the relevant collection.
2.4.4 Subscription Programs Termination
You can choose to terminate your participation in the Visionara Academy for Business Program or Visionara Academy Subscription Program at any time by emailing [email protected] . Visionara Academy will remove your content from the Visionara Academy for Business Collection or Visionara Academy Subscription Collection, as applicable, within 12 months of termination and will continue to pay you revenue share based on the then-current rates until your content is removed from the relevant collection.
Once your content is removed for any reason from the Visionara Academy for Business Collection or Visionara Academy Subscription Collection, TFB Customers or Visionara Academy Subscription Customers, as applicable, will no longer be able to enrol in your content and you will no longer earn revenue share from the relevant program. However, any Visionara Academy Subscription Customer or student of a TFB Customer who previously enrolled in your content will continue to be able to access that content for as long as they remain subscribed to the relevant collection.
2.4.5 Assessments
Visionara Academy’s assessments (“Assessments”) consist of question-and-answer pairs with explanations (each, an “Assessment Question”) to measure proficiency and learning across certain topics, skills, domains, or occupations. Assessments are made available by Visionara Academy as a standalone content type, separate from courses. For clarity, practice tests, quizzes, coding exercises, and labs are not considered Assessments or Assessment Questions.
By providing an Assessment Question, as mutually agreed between us in writing (including by email), you agree to the additional terms in this section.
We may elect whether to select your Assessment Question for inclusion on Visionara Academy.com, in the Visionara Academy for Business Collection, and/or in the Visionara Academy Subscription Collection, and may change that selection from time to time and at our sole discretion. If your Assessment Question is included in the Visionara Academy for Business Collection or Visionara Academy Subscription Collection, then you will be subject to the terms relevant to that collection above.
You agree that your Assessment Questions will comply with all criteria as may be agreed in writing (including by email) by you and Visionara Academy, such as the topic, format, domain, difficulty level, and quantity.
2.4.5.1 Assessments Exclusivity
By providing your Assessment Question, you grant Visionara Academy an exclusive license to use, copy, reproduce, distribute, display, publish, and prepare derivative works of your Assessment Question. You agree that you will not make your Assessment Question available to others (including through your own site or platform) or license or permit any third party to do so.
2.4.5.2 Assessments Termination
You may choose to terminate your license of an Assessment Question at any time by emailing [email protected] . Visionara Academy will remove your Assessment Question from the Services within 12 months of termination and will continue to pay you any relevant revenue share based on the then-current rates until your Assessment Question is removed from the relevant portion of the Services.
2.5 Opting Out
Except as otherwise stated above, you can opt out of the Promotional Programs at any time. However, your content will remain subject to any applicable sales, campaigns, or promotions that are already active at the time you opt out, until those sales, campaigns, or promotions are completed.
3. Modifications
We may update this Policy from time to time to clarify our practices or to reflect new or different practices. If we make any material change, we will notify you using prominent means such as by email notice sent to the email address specified in your account or by posting a notice through our Services. Modifications will become effective on the day they are posted unless stated otherwise.
4. How to Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact our Support Team.