Terms and Conditions

Last updated: [04/08/2026]

Bryer Education Limited is a company incorporated in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region under company number 80745123, with its registered office at Unit 909, Prosperity Millennia Plaza, 663 King's Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong. In these Terms we are called "Bryer Education", "we", "us" or "our".

You can contact us at james@bryereducation.com.

These Terms govern the supply of our tutoring, bootcamp and mentorship services. By booking or paying for any service, you agree to them. Please read them before you pay.

• Client means the person who books and pays for the services. Where the Student is under 18, the Client is the parent or legal guardian.
• Student means the person receiving instruction.
• Session means a single scheduled lesson or meeting.
• Programme means a defined package of Sessions and associated work, such as a bootcamp or a competition mentorship.

Most of our Students are school-age. Accordingly:

• Where the Student is under 18, the contract is between us and the parent or legal guardian, who is responsible for all fees and for the Student's conduct.
• By booking, you confirm that you are the parent or legal guardian, or that you have their authority.
• We do not enter into contracts directly with a person under 18.
• We communicate about scheduling, progress and payment with the Client, not solely with the Student.

• Enquiries, quotations and fee schedules are invitations to treat, not offers.
• A contract is formed when we confirm your booking in writing, or when you make payment, whichever is earlier.
• We may decline any booking. If we decline after payment, we refund in full.

We provide online instruction in Advanced Placement History and related humanities subjects, examination preparation bootcamps, and mentorship for academic essay competitions. The specific scope, number of Sessions, duration and fee for your engagement are set out in your booking confirmation, which forms part of these Terms.

This matters, so we state it plainly.

• We do not guarantee any particular examination score, grade or mark.
• We do not guarantee shortlisting, commendation or any prize in any essay competition.
• We do not guarantee admission to, or an offer from, any school, college or university.
• Outcomes depend on the Student's own work, ability and circumstances, and on decisions made by examination boards, competition judges and admissions offices over which we have no control.

Any results, averages or past outcomes shown on our website describe previous cohorts. They are not a prediction and not a promise.

Our mentorship is instruction, not authorship. This is a condition of service and we do not make exceptions.

• Our mentorship is instruction, not authorship. This is a condition of service and we do not make exceptions.
• We advise, question, critique and teach. We do not write, co-write, or substantially rewrite any work the Student will submit under their own name.
• All work submitted to any competition, school or institution must be the Student's own, in their own words.
• We will not assist with any work in a manner that breaches the rules of the relevant competition, school, examination board or university, including rules on originality, permitted assistance, and declaration of support received.
• Where a competition or institution requires disclosure of tutoring or mentorship received, it is the Client's and the Student's responsibility to make that disclosure. We will confirm in writing the nature of the support given if asked.
• We may end an engagement immediately, without refunding fees for work already performed, if we are asked to breach this clause.

• Fees are quoted in the currency stated in your booking confirmation and are payable in advance unless we agree otherwise in writing.
• We accept payment by card, WeChat Pay, Alipay and bank transfer, processed through our payment provider.
• Any bank charges, intermediary fees or currency conversion costs applied by your own bank or card issuer are your responsibility.
• Where a Programme is paid in instalments, the schedule is set out in your booking confirmation. We may suspend Sessions if an instalment is more than 7 days overdue.
• We may change our published fees at any time. A change does not affect an engagement already confirmed and paid for.

• Sessions are scheduled by agreement and confirmed in writing.
• All times are agreed in a named time zone. Each party is responsible for correctly observing daylight saving changes in their own location.
• Rescheduling by the Client: give us at least 24 hours' notice and we will reschedule at no charge, subject to availability.
• Late cancellation: less than 24 hours' notice and the Session is treated as delivered and charged in full.
• Non-attendance: if the Student has not joined within 15 minutes of the start time and we have not heard from you, the Session is treated as delivered and charged in full.
• Rescheduling by us: we will give as much notice as we can and offer an alternative time. If no alternative is workable, that Session is refunded or credited.

• Provide a reliable internet connection, a working camera and microphone, and a quiet place to work.
• Ensure the Student attends punctually and prepared.
• Complete agreed preparatory work between Sessions. Instruction depends on it.
• Tell us promptly about any learning need, access requirement or circumstance affecting the Student's learning, so that we can teach appropriately.

We record every Session as standard. We do this so that the Student can review the lesson afterwards, so that you can see what was taught, and so that there is an accurate record if a question ever arises about a Session.

• We tell you this before the first Session and ask for your written consent when you book. Recording is part of how we teach, so if you do not wish Sessions to be recorded, tell us before booking and we will discuss whether we can still work together.
• The video platform displays a notice when recording begins. Remaining in the Session after that notice is shown is taken as consent by everyone present.
• What is recorded: the video call, including audio, video and material shared on screen.
• What we use it for: the Student's own review, the Client's oversight of what is being taught, our lesson planning and quality review, and as evidence if a complaint or dispute arises.
• What we do not use it for: we do not use any recording containing a Student for marketing, promotion, teacher profiles or any public purpose, and we do not supply recordings to any third party, tutoring platform or partner organisation, without separate written consent from the Client for that particular use.
• Storage and access: recordings are held in encrypted storage located in Hong Kong. They are not kept on the video platform's cloud. Access is restricted to the Client, the Student and our instructional staff.
• Retention: we keep recordings for 12 months from the date of the Session and then delete them. You may ask us to delete a recording sooner and we will do so within 30 days, unless it is needed for an unresolved complaint.
• Your control: you may ask us to stop recording at any time, for a single Session or for all future Sessions.
• The Client and Student must not make their own recording of a Session without our prior written consent, and must not download, share, publish or distribute any recording we provide.
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If you are in California, or anywhere else where all parties must consent to a recording: by joining a Session after the recording notice is displayed, you and the Student consent to that recording. If you do not consent, tell us before the Session begins.

If the Student is under 14 and resident in mainland China: we obtain the separate written consent of the parent or legal guardian to the recording and to its storage in Hong Kong, in accordance with the Personal Information Protection Law.

• Teaching materials, notes, worksheets, slides and written feedback that we provide remain our property or that of our licensors.
• You may use them for the Student's own personal study. You may not copy, distribute, publish, resell, or share them with any third party, tutoring organisation or online platform.
• Work created by the Student remains the Student's own.

• Either party may end an engagement by written notice. Refunds are governed by our Refund and Cancellation Policy.
• We may suspend or end an engagement immediately if fees are substantially overdue, if these Terms are seriously breached, if we are asked to act contrary to clause 8, or if conduct towards our staff is abusive.

• Nothing in these Terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.
• We are not liable for any indirect or consequential loss, or for any loss of opportunity, place, offer, prize or award.
• Subject to the above, our total liability in connection with any engagement is limited to the fees you have paid us for that engagement.
• We are not liable for failures caused by your equipment, your internet connection, or third-party platforms.

We are not liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including illness, network or platform outages, government restrictions and natural events. We will offer a rescheduled Session or a credit.

Contact us at james@bryereducation.com. We will acknowledge within 3 working days and respond substantively within 14 days. We would much rather hear about a problem early than read about it in a chargeback.

We may update these Terms. The version in force when you booked applies to your engagement. The current version is always published on this page.

• If any provision is held invalid, the remainder continues in force.
• These Terms, together with your booking confirmation, are the entire agreement between us.
• No third party may enforce these Terms.

These Terms and Conditions, and any dispute arising out of or in connection with them, are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and the parties submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Hong Kong courts. If you are a consumer resident elsewhere, this does not deprive you of the protection of any mandatory consumer law of your country of residence.