1. Independent Contractor

You provide training services to us as an independent contractor. Nothing in this agreement makes you our employee, partner, agent or joint venturer. You control how you prepare and present each session, within the delivery standards in this agreement, and you may provide services to others provided you meet your obligations to us. You are not entitled to any employee benefits, and you may not bind us or make commitments on our behalf.

2. Application and Approval

• Applying does not guarantee approval. We decide at our discretion who we approve, and may ask for an interview, references or further documents.

• You confirm that everything in your application is true, complete and not misleading, and you will tell us promptly if anything changes.

• Approval is given for specific standards. Where a course requires Exemplar Global approval of the trainer, we arrange it, and you are only offered those courses once it is granted.

• We may withdraw or narrow your approval at any time, including where an external approval lapses.

3. Sessions

• We schedule sessions and offer them to approved trainers. We are not obliged to offer you any minimum number of sessions, and you are not obliged to accept any session offered.

• When you accept a session, you commit to deliver it on the agreed dates and times. We confirm the assignment in writing through the trainer portal and by email.

• We may change the date, time, venue or delegates of a session, reassign it, or cancel it, and we will tell you as early as we reasonably can.

• If you cannot deliver a session you accepted, tell us as soon as possible so we can arrange a replacement. Repeated late withdrawals may lead to suspension.

• Most sessions run online as virtual instructor led sessions. From time to time we may offer you an in person course, either a public course at a venue we arrange or an in house course at a client's site. For in person courses we provide the materials and assessment pack, you run the assessment on site and return the completed pack to us for review, and we issue the delegates' certificates.

4. Delivery Standards

• Deliver each session professionally, on time, and in line with the course content, learning outcomes and materials we provide.

• Run each session through our learning platform: start the video call from your trainer portal, and do not move delegates to another platform or channel.

• Course materials, forms and checklists reach delegates through the platform, and delegates submit their tasks through it. Do not distribute our materials or collect delegate work by email or any other channel.

• Record daily attendance, brief assessment notes for each delegate and a short session report in the trainer portal.

• Treat every delegate with courtesy and respect, and do not discriminate, harass or make offensive remarks.

• We may observe sessions, seek delegate feedback and review your records to maintain quality.

5. Session Recordings

• We may record sessions, including video, audio, shared screens and chat, and make the recordings available to the delegates enrolled on that session or course to watch later.

• We may also use recordings for quality review, assessment evidence, resolving complaints and meeting accreditation requirements.

• You consent to being recorded in sessions you deliver and to us using recordings for these purposes. Recordings belong to us.

• You must not make your own recordings of a session or share any recording outside the platform.

6. Fees and Payment

• Your fee is agreed with you individually and confirmed in writing. It is not set out in these terms.

• Unless agreed otherwise in writing, fees are earned for teaching days of sessions you deliver in full. A session payment is approved when we approve the session after you submit it.

• Eligible payments are approved and paid within 30 days of the completed session, by bank transfer, including through Wise, to the bank details you provide. Each payment and its status is shown in your trainer portal.

• Fees are stated and paid in the local currency of your country. Any bank fees charged by your own bank are yours.

• Fees are earned for each teaching day you deliver. If you cannot complete a session you started, for example through illness, we pay you at your day rate for the teaching days you completed and arrange another trainer to complete it.

• No fee is payable for a session that is cancelled before delivery, unless we agree otherwise in writing.

• We may withhold or set off a payment where we reasonably suspect fraud, a breach of this agreement or an error in the amount owed.

7. Invoices

• You do not need to send us invoices. You authorise us to create an invoice on your behalf for each session payment when it is approved, and you agree not to issue your own invoice for the same payment.

• Each invoice is created from the details in your trainer record, in your business name if you have added business details and otherwise in your own name. Keep these details up to date so they appear correctly.

• You can view and download every invoice from your trainer portal. Tell us promptly if an invoice is wrong so we can correct it.

• Where the law requires a particular form of invoice, or a written self billing agreement, for your situation, this section is that agreement and we will issue invoices in that form.

8. Partner Program

When you are approved as a trainer, we automatically open an account for you in the Audit Workshop Partner Program. By accepting these terms you also accept the Partner Program Terms, which govern your partner link, how students are credited to you and how commission is paid. Students you bring to Audit Workshop earn you the standard partner commission, the same as every partner. A student is credited to you only through your partner link.

9. Tax, Insurance and Expenses

You are responsible for your own income tax, sales tax such as VAT or GST, social security or pension contributions, and any registrations or insurances required in the country where you operate. If you are registered for VAT, GST or a similar tax, tell us before your first payment so we can agree how it is documented. Unless we agree otherwise in writing, you bear your own costs of delivering sessions, including equipment and internet access. When we ask you to travel to another city to deliver an in person course, we pay your reasonable travel and accommodation, booked or approved by us in advance.

10. Our Materials and Intellectual Property

• All course content, slide decks, learner guides, case studies, assessments, recordings and other materials we provide remain our property, or that of our licensors.

• We grant you a limited, non exclusive, revocable licence to use those materials only to deliver sessions we assign to you, for as long as you are engaged.

• You must not copy, record, share, sell, adapt or reuse our materials for any other purpose, or present them as your own.

• Anything you create for us in delivering our courses, including feedback and suggested improvements, belongs to us.

11. Confidentiality

You must keep confidential all non public information about our business, courses, pricing, systems, delegates and clients that you receive through this engagement, use it only to perform this agreement, and return or delete it when we ask or when the engagement ends. This obligation continues after the engagement ends.

12. Delegate Data and Privacy

• Use delegate names, contact details, records and any other personal information only to deliver the session you are assigned.

• Do not contact delegates outside the session for any purpose other than the session, and do not keep, copy or export their details.

• Keep personal information secure and comply with applicable privacy laws and our Privacy Policy. Tell us immediately if you suspect any personal information has been lost or misused.

13. Non Solicitation

While you are engaged and for 12 months afterwards, you must not, directly or indirectly, solicit or accept delegates, client organisations or prospects you dealt with through Audit Workshop to buy competing training from you or anyone else, or encourage them to stop dealing with us. This does not stop you working with people you already worked with before they reached you through us.

14. Exemplar Global and Accreditation

Courses may be certified by Exemplar Global under our recognition. You must describe Exemplar Global, our recognition and our courses accurately, follow any requirements that apply to trainers under that recognition, and must not use the Exemplar Global name or marks for your own services through this engagement.

15. Professional Conduct

You must act honestly and lawfully, avoid conflicts of interest with delegates you teach, and tell us of any conflict you become aware of. You must not do anything that could reasonably bring Audit Workshop, our courses or our accreditation into disrepute.

16. Liability

To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect or consequential loss, or loss of profit or opportunity, arising from this agreement, including from any session being changed, reassigned or cancelled, and our total liability to you is limited to the fees payable for the sessions concerned. You indemnify us against loss arising from your breach of this agreement, your negligence or wilful misconduct, or any claim that you are our employee.

17. Suspension and Ending the Engagement

• Either party may end the engagement at any time by written notice. Sessions already accepted should be delivered unless we agree otherwise.

• We may suspend or end your engagement immediately, and remove you from assigned sessions, if you breach this agreement, if your approval or an external approval is withdrawn, or if we receive a credible complaint about your conduct.

• When the engagement ends, fees for sessions you completed remain payable, your licence to our materials ends, and sections 5, 10 to 13 and 16 continue to apply.

18. Changes to These Terms

We may update these terms from time to time. We will tell you of material changes, and continuing to accept sessions after that means you accept the updated terms. The version you accepted when you applied is recorded on your trainer record.

19. General

This agreement, with any written confirmation of your fee and the documents it refers to, is the entire agreement between us about your engagement. If any part is unenforceable, the rest continues. A failure to enforce a right is not a waiver of it. You may not assign or subcontract your obligations without our written consent. Notices to you may be sent to the email on your account.

20. Governing Law

This agreement is governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia, and both parties submit to the non exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of that state.