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Terms for creator partners

Version 2026-11-10, 11 November 2026.

These terms cover you recommending Overheard to your audience and earning commission when people subscribe, as a creator partner of Abyl Applications Limited (registered in England and Wales, company number 09519157). They sit alongside our terms of use and privacy policy, which apply to your account like anyone else’s. If you also teach on Overheard, the teacher terms cover that.

1. Partnerships

  • Partnerships are by invitation. You accept these terms before your links go live; we record the date and version.
  • Your Partner page shows your links, your commission rate, what you’ve earned and a month-by-month report.
  • Being a partner is separate from whether we use your videos. That’s covered by our terms for creators whose videos we use, and you can opt your channel out at any time on For creators, whether or not you’re a partner. Opting out doesn’t end your partnership, and ending your partnership doesn’t remove your videos.
  • We may show your name or channel name on the page your link opens, so people know who sent them.
  • You’re independent, not our employee or agent, and you can’t make promises on our behalf.

2. Your links and codes

  • Each of your codes gives people who sign up through it a number of free months of Plus. We set that number per code and may change it for future sign-ups; anyone who has already signed up keeps what they were given.
  • Free months apply once per person, to new accounts, and never on top of a paid subscription.
  • When someone uses a partner’s link or code for the first time, they’re linked to that partner for good. Nobody can move them to another partner, including a teacher they join later.
  • You can’t use your own link or code, and you mustn’t sign people up on their behalf, pay or reward them for signing up, or create accounts to earn commission.

3. Commission

  • You earn your commission rate (shown on your Partner page; 20% unless agreed otherwise) of what Overheard actually receives from the subscriptions of people linked to you: the payment less VAT, payment fees and refunds, for as long as they subscribe.
  • A change to your rate applies to payments made after the change.
  • We pay a month’s commission on the 1st of the month after next, once refunds have had a full calendar month to come through: for payments made in August, you’re paid on 1 October. A refund after we’ve paid you is taken off your next payout.
  • We pay by Wise or PayPal. Your bank details stay with them, not with us.
  • You’re responsible for your own tax on what you earn.
  • We don’t pay commission on sign-ups that break these terms, and we may hold back commission while we look into suspected fraud.
  • Nothing is paid for views, likes, subscriptions or watching videos: commission comes only from paid subscriptions.

4. What you see

You see how many people joined through each of your links, how many pay, and what you’ve earned. You never see who they are, their email, their learning or their payments.

5. How you promote Overheard

  • Say clearly that it’s a paid partnership whenever you recommend Overheard, for example with “Ad” or YouTube’s paid promotion label, as the advertising rules where you and your audience are require.
  • Overheard is for adults (18+). Don’t aim your promotion at children.
  • Be accurate: don’t promise results (such as fluency in a set time), and don’t describe features or prices we don’t offer.
  • No spam, no misleading ads, and no paid search ads on the Overheard name.
  • Follow the rules of the platforms you post on.
  • You may use the Overheard name to describe the partnership. Ask us before using our logo or design in your own material.

6. Ending the partnership

  • Either of us can end the partnership at any time. Tell us at hello@overheard.it.com, or we’ll tell you.
  • We can pause or end a partnership that breaks these terms. While it’s paused, your links stop working and new payments don’t earn commission.
  • When a partnership ends, commission on payments made before the end is still paid once it’s due, unless it came from sign-ups that broke these terms.

7. Changes

If we change these terms, we’ll show you the new version on your Partner page and ask you to accept it before you carry on. If you don’t accept, you can end the partnership and commission you’ve already earned is still paid.

8. The law and contact

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales. Abyl Applications Limited (registered in England and Wales, company number 09519157), Taudinn, Tunstall, Richmond, North Yorkshire, DL10 7QL, United Kingdom. Email: hello@overheard.it.com.