Terms of Use

These terms apply when you use FLSoft Academy at academy.flsoft.com.au (the “academy”): reading lessons, creating an account, buying a course, taking a final assessment or holding a certificate. The academy is run by FLSoft, a registered business name in Queensland, Australia (“we”, “us”). Our Privacy Policy and Refunds and cancellations policy are part of these terms.

By creating an account or buying a course, you agree to these terms. If you only read free lessons, these terms still apply to how you use the site.

Who can use the academy

You must be 18 or older. Our courses are written for adults, and some of the tools they teach are only for adults: for example, Anthropic only offers Claude Code to people 18 and over. By creating an account or buying a course, you confirm you are 18 or older. If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 18, we will close it and refund any purchase.

Your account

Use an email address you control, keep your password private, and tell us straight away if you think someone else has used your account. You are responsible for what happens in your account.

One account per person. Don’t share your account, your login or access to paid lessons with anyone else. Each learner needs their own account and their own purchase.

You can stop using the academy at any time, and you can ask us to close your account (see the Privacy Policy).

Free lessons and paid courses

Each course starts with free lessons, which you can read without an account. Buying a course gives you the full course: the paid lessons and, if the course offers a certificate, the final assessment and a certificate when you pass.

Prices are shown in Australian dollars (AUD). At checkout, Stripe, our payment provider, may show and charge the price in your local currency, converted at its exchange rate. The amount shown on the checkout page is the amount you pay.
GST: FLSoft is not registered for GST, so our prices don’t include GST and our receipts are not tax invoices.
Payment is handled by Stripe. We never see your full card details.
Access starts once Stripe confirms your payment. For most cards that’s immediate. Some payment methods take longer to confirm, and access starts when they do.
One-time payment: buying a course is a single payment, and nothing renews. All-access, below, is our only subscription.

All-access subscription

All-access is a monthly subscription that opens every live course in the academy, including courses we add later: paid lessons, plus final assessments and certificates on the courses that have them.

Price and billing: the monthly price is shown before you subscribe (currently A$12 a month). You pay when you subscribe, then automatically every month on the same date until you cancel. If Stripe charged you in your local currency, renewals use that currency too. As with courses, the price doesn’t include GST.
Cancel any time from your account page (Manage or cancel subscription). Cancelling stops all future payments. You keep access until the end of the month you’ve already paid for, and then it ends.
Failed payments: if a renewal payment fails, Stripe tries again over the following days and your access continues meanwhile. If the payment still doesn’t go through, the subscription ends.
When it ends: you can no longer open courses you haven’t bought separately. Your progress stays in your account, and certificates you earned stay valid and verifiable. You can subscribe again or buy individual courses at any time.
Price changes: we will email you at least 30 days before a new price applies to your subscription. It applies from your next billing date after that notice, and you can cancel before then.
Personal use: one subscription per account, for one person. The same no-sharing rules apply.
Refunds: see Refunds and cancellations.

Lifetime access and course updates

“Lifetime access” means you can use the course for as long as we offer it, including future updates to its lessons. Our courses are living courses: we update lessons as the tools change, and we may add, rewrite, reorder or retire lessons, quizzes and assessment questions. Updates never take away your access to a course you have bought.

If we ever stop offering a course you bought, we will email you at least 30 days before its paid lessons go offline, and your certificate will stay verifiable. If that happens within 12 months of your purchase, you can ask for a full refund.

Third-party tools and your own computer

Our courses teach tools made by other companies, such as Claude Code by Anthropic, AI chat apps such as ChatGPT (OpenAI), Claude (Anthropic) and Gemini (Google), and services such as GitHub. FLSoft Academy is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google or the makers of the other tools we teach.

You need your own accounts for those tools: for example, a paid Claude plan that includes Claude Code for our coding courses, or an account with an AI chat app for The Mental Load Hack (free plans work, with usage limits). Paid plans cost extra, and every tool is governed by its provider’s own terms. Our price doesn’t include them.
Those tools change often. We check our lessons against their official documentation and update them, but a step may sometimes look different from what a lesson describes. If it does, please report it with the Report a problem button on the lesson.
AI coding tools can make mistakes, and some of them can change files and run commands on your computer. You decide what they are allowed to do. Follow the safety steps in the lessons: review changes before you approve or publish them, keep your work in git, and never put passwords or secret keys in your code.
AI chat apps can also be wrong while sounding sure, especially about dates, amounts, rules and anything they had to guess. Check what they write before you send it or rely on it, as the lessons show. For health, legal, money and official matters, the official source or a professional has the final word. What you type or upload into an AI app goes to the company that runs it, under its own terms and privacy policy, not to us.
Respect the rules of your school, university or employer about using AI. Building your own projects with AI is fine, but if someone says “no AI” for a piece of work, follow that.

Final assessments and certificates

Each course that offers a certificate ends with a timed final assessment. The rules are shown before you start, including the time limit, the pass mark and how many attempts you can make.

Take it yourself. Before each attempt you confirm an honesty pledge: the answers are your own, without another person or an AI tool answering for you.
What a certificate means: you completed the course and passed its final assessment, for the edition shown on the certificate. It is not an accredited or nationally recognised qualification, and FLSoft is not a registered training organisation.
Certificates are public. Anyone who has a certificate’s ID or link can see the holder’s name, the course, the edition, the score and the date issued on its verification page.
The name is permanent once issued, so check it before you claim your certificate. If you need it changed or removed, see the Privacy Policy.
Withdrawal: if we find that a certificate was obtained by breaking these rules (for example, someone else took the assessment), we may withdraw it, and it will no longer verify. We will tell you why and give you a chance to respond first.

Using our content

Lessons, quizzes, assessments, images and the design of the academy belong to FLSoft. When you use the academy, we give you a personal, non-transferable licence to use that content for your own learning.

You can use the code examples and prompts from our lessons in your own projects, including commercial ones.
You can’t copy, republish, share or sell our lessons or paid content; share your access; publish assessment questions or answers; use scripts, bots or other automated tools to read, scrape or bulk-download lessons; or try to get around access controls or speed limits, attack or overload the site. To prevent automated copying, paid lessons have a speed limit far above normal reading. If you hit it, wait a few minutes.

Reports and suggestions

If you send us a lesson report or a suggestion, we may use it to improve our courses without owing you anything for it. Please don’t include sensitive personal information in reports.

Availability

We work to keep the academy running and accurate, but we can’t promise it will always be available or free of errors. We may need to take it offline for maintenance or updates.

Ending access

You can stop using the academy at any time.

We may suspend or close an account that seriously or repeatedly breaks these terms, for example by sharing accounts or access, scraping lessons with automated tools, cheating in a final assessment, or attacking the site. Where it’s reasonable, we will warn you first and give you a chance to fix the problem. Any refund then depends on our Refunds and cancellations policy and the law.

Australian Consumer Law and our liability

Our courses come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law. Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or changes those rights, or any other rights you have under the consumer laws of the place where you live.

Subject to those rights:

Our lessons are educational material, not professional, medical, legal or financial advice.
To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, such as lost profits or lost data. Keep backups of your work.
To the extent the law allows, our total liability for any claim about a course is limited to the amount you paid for it.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms, for example when we add a course or a feature. We will post the new version here with a new “last updated” date. If a change materially affects people who have bought a course, we will also email them. Changes don’t apply to anything that happened before they took effect, and they won’t take away access you have already paid for.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Queensland, Australia, and the courts of Queensland can hear disputes about them. This doesn’t take away any right you have to bring a claim under the consumer laws of the place where you live.

Contact

Questions about these terms: email forestlakesoft@gmail.com.