Designed Learning Co.

Designed Learning Co.

Terms & Conditions

Last updated 17 October 2026

1Who you are dealing with

Wordwave, Principal Planner and this website are published by Designed Learning Co., a business name of Peter Francis Marshall, ABN 81 846 187 295, in Queensland, Australia.

In these terms, “we”, “us” and “our” mean that business. “You” means the person or organisation buying or using our software. You can reach us at hello@designedlearningco.au.

2What these terms cover

These terms apply when you download, install or use our software, Wordwave or Principal Planner, and when you buy a licence for it. By installing the software you agree to them. Where a clause applies to only one of the two, it says so. If you do not agree, do not install it.

Our Refund Policy and Privacy Policy form part of these terms.

3Your licence

When you buy Wordwave or Principal Planner you are buying a licence to use it, not the software itself. The licence is personal to you, is not exclusive, and cannot be transferred to someone else.

It lets you:

  • install and use the software on the computers you personally use, such as a laptop at work and a computer at home;
  • for Wordwave, make unlimited videos with it, for any purpose including commercial use, for as long as you like;
  • keep using the version you bought indefinitely, with no expiry and no renewal.

It does not let you share your licence key, install the software on computers belonging to other staff, or provide it to a school, organisation or group. A site licence for Wordwave, or a School licence for Principal Planner, covers those situations; contact us about one.

A Principal Planner School licence covers the principal and the members of that school’s leadership team, each on the computers they personally use, for as long as they are in those roles at that school.

4What you may not do

  • Sell, rent, sub-licence or redistribute our software or your licence key.
  • Publish a licence key, or use one you were not issued.
  • Remove or work around the licensing, the trial mark on Wordwave’s exported video, or the limits of Principal Planner’s free version.
  • Present our software, or videos made with Wordwave, as your own software product.

Nothing in this section limits anything you are permitted to do under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) or other applicable law.

5Trying before you buy

Wordwave can be used without a licence. The trial is not time-limited and is not restricted in what it can do: it exports real video files at full quality. Every video it exports carries a small “Made with Wordwave” mark in the corner. Entering a licence key removes that mark.

Principal Planner has a free version, which is not time-limited. It includes the school calendar and its updates, your events and tasks, and a small set of planning templates and prompts; a licence key unlocks the rest in place. Nothing you enter in the free version is lost or changed by adding a key, and removing a key makes licensed features read-only rather than deleting anything.

Both exist so you can find out whether the software suits your work before you pay for it. We would rather you did that than bought something that turns out not to fit.

6Price, tax and payment

Prices are shown in Australian dollars and include GST where GST applies.

Our checkout is run by Stripe through its Managed Payments service. The merchant of record for each sale is Link, LLC, a Stripe company. That means Link is the seller for tax purposes and handles the payment, your receipt and invoice come from Link, and your bank statement shows the charge as “LINK.COM*” followed by our name. Link’s own terms apply to the payment itself. We never see or store your card details.

We may change our prices at any time. A change never affects a licence you have already bought.

7Getting your licence key

Your licence key is emailed to you after payment clears. Keys are sent automatically, usually within a few minutes. If something delays one, we send it by hand, by the next business morning at the latest. Keep it: it is how you unlock the software on a new computer, and we can re-send it if you ask.

The software checks your key on your own computer. It does not contact us to do so, which is why it works with no internet connection and why we have no record of which machines you have installed it on.

8Updates and new versions

Fixes and improvements to the version you bought are included, at no extra cost, for as long as we keep making them. We will not take away a feature you paid for.

A future major version may be sold separately. If that happens we will say so clearly, and the version you own will keep working exactly as it does now.

9Support

Support is by email. We aim to answer within a few business days, and questions are answered by the person who built the software rather than a call centre.

We cannot provide support for your computer itself, your school's network or IT policies, or other software you use alongside ours.

10Your information and your work

Everything you put into our software and everything you make with it remains yours. We claim no rights over your audio, your text, your images, your exported videos, or the plans, tasks, notes and documents you keep in Principal Planner.

We also never receive any of it. Neither app has a server or an account, so your files and data stay on your own computer. See our Privacy Policy.

You are responsible for having the right to use the material you put into Wordwave. Using a commercial recording in a classroom is often covered by a school or sector licence; publishing a video of it may not be. That is a question for your school or the rights holder, not for us.

11Principal Planner is a planning aid

Principal Planner is independent. It is not made, endorsed or checked by the Queensland Department of Education or any other government body, and nothing in it is a statement of departmental policy or a legal requirement.

  • Term dates for Queensland state schools come from the Queensland Department of Education’s published school calendar, as it stood when the release was made or when you last pressed Sync now. Every other school enters its own term dates, and national public holidays are calculated by the software; state and local holidays are yours to add. Calendars change; the app shows where each date came from, and you should confirm dates that matter.
  • Lead times, checklists, prompts and reminders are suggestions generated by the software. They are a starting point for your own professional judgement, not advice and not a complete list of what a school must do.
  • Where something depends on departmental policy or legislation, the item says “Verify current departmental requirements”. Checking those requirements, and the decisions you make, remain yours.

12Software made by other people

Wordwave includes FFmpeg, which is used to encode video and is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License. We build it from source with only the components Wordwave uses. If you would like the exact source for the build inside your copy, ask and we will provide it.

It also includes the typefaces Atkinson Hyperlegible, Lexend, Andika and Inter, each under the SIL Open Font License. Full licence texts ship inside the application.

Principal Planner, like Wordwave, is built on open-source components, including Electron, each used under its own licence.

13Your rights under Australian Consumer Law

Our goods and services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law. For a major failure you are entitled to a replacement or a refund, and to compensation for any other reasonably foreseeable loss or damage. You are also entitled to have the goods repaired or replaced if they are not of acceptable quality and the failure does not amount to a major failure.

Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies those guarantees, and if anything here conflicts with them, the law wins. Our Refund Policy explains how to make a claim, and what we offer on top of what the law requires.

14Liability

Subject always to clause 13, and to the extent the law allows us to limit it, our total liability to you for any claim connected with our software is limited to the amount you paid for your licence, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss.

In plain terms: Wordwave is a tool for making videos and Principal Planner is a tool for planning, and it is your responsibility to keep your own backups of work that matters to you. Principal Planner’s Settings → Data → Export local backup exists for exactly that.

15Ending the licence

Your licence lasts indefinitely. We may end it if you break these terms in a serious way, such as publishing keys or redistributing the software, and we would contact you first wherever that is practical.

You can stop using our software at any time. Uninstalling Wordwave does not affect any videos or project folders you have already made, and uninstalling Principal Planner leaves its data on your computer until you delete it yourself.

16Changes to these terms

We may update these terms for future purchases. The version that applies to you is the one published when you bought your licence, and this page shows when it was last changed.

17Which law applies

These terms are governed by the laws of Queensland, Australia, and the courts of that state have jurisdiction. This does not take away any right you have to bring a claim where you live.

18Contact

Questions about these terms, site licences or purchase orders: hello@designedlearningco.au.