These terms are the agreement between you and Mike Quinn, doing business as Visual Learning ("Visual Learning", "we", "us") for using this site. By creating an account or using the site, you agree to them and to the privacy policy. If you do not agree, do not use the site.
Effective November 10, 2026. A limited liability company is being formed to run Visual Learning. When it is registered, it takes over these terms and this page will name it.
1. Accounts
- You must be 13 or older to create an individual account. Younger students use an account their teacher creates.
- Give accurate information, keep your password private, and tell us if you think someone else is using your account. You are responsible for what happens under your account.
- An account is for one person. Do not share it or sell access to it.
2. Teachers and schools
A teacher account can create classes, create student accounts, hand out join codes and run class chat. By creating student accounts, a teacher confirms that:
- they do so for their school's or their own educational purposes, with any authorization from the school and any parent or guardian consent that the school or the law requires (including COPPA for children under 13 and FERPA for student records);
- they accept these terms on behalf of those students, and will keep the login slips and passwords they hand out private;
- they will supervise their class chat: it can be turned off, set to announcements only, or opened; the teacher can remove messages and pause a student.
A teacher can delete a student's account at any time. Classroom tools are free; the paid lessons need seats (below).
3. Plans, billing and refunds
- What is free: the free sections of every lesson, the free labs, and the classroom tools. Everything else needs a subscription or a classroom seat.
- Subscriptions (monthly or yearly) and classroom seats (yearly, per student) are paid through Stripe. The price, the billing period and any tax are shown before you pay.
- Automatic renewal: a subscription or seat plan renews at the end of each period, at the price then in effect, until you cancel. We tell you before a price change applies to you.
- Cancelling: cancel at any time online from your account page ("Manage billing") or the Seats page. You keep access until the end of the period you already paid for, and you are not charged again.
- Refunds: payments are not refunded for partly used periods, except where the law requires it. If you were charged by mistake, or charged after cancelling, write to us within 30 days and we will refund it. Changes to the number of seats are charged or credited as Stripe's billing page shows.
- Failed payments: if a renewal payment fails, access continues for 3 days while Stripe retries; after that, paid parts lock until the payment succeeds.
- Seats belong to the teacher who bought them; the teacher chooses which students hold them.
4. Acceptable use
Do not:
- copy, download, record, resell or republish lessons, narration, labs or quizzes, or share paid content with people who have not paid for it;
- get around sign-in, payment, seat or access limits, or use another person's account;
- scrape the site, send automated traffic, probe for security holes, or interfere with the site;
- harass, threaten, bully or impersonate anyone, or post anything unlawful, hateful, sexual, or harmful to children, in chat or anywhere else;
- share personal contact details of students, or try to contact students outside their class.
Anyone can report a message. Reports are reviewed by the site team.
5. Our content and yours
- The lessons, drawings, animations, narration, music, labs, quizzes, software and the Visual Learning name belong to us or our licensors. With an account you may use them for your own learning or teaching through this site. Teachers may show lessons to their class, including on a projector.
- Your messages and answers stay yours. You let us store, display and process them only as needed to run the site (for example, showing a class message to the class and its teacher).
- If you send us suggestions, we may use them without owing you anything.
6. Suspension and closing
We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms or puts others at risk, and we may remove any message. Where it is fair and safe to do so, we tell you first. You can stop using the site at any time and ask us to delete your account. If we close a paid account without cause, we refund the unused part of the period. If we ever shut the site down, we give at least 30 days' notice and refund unused paid time.
7. Disclaimers and limits
- Visual Learning is an educational resource. We work to make lessons accurate, but they simplify real science for teaching and are not professional advice.
- The site is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, we make no warranties, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, and we do not promise the site is always available or free of errors.
- To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages or lost data, and our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or $50 if you paid nothing.
- Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under consumer protection laws that cannot be waived.
8. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Tennessee and of the United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute that cannot be settled informally belongs in the state or federal courts located in Tennessee, except that either side may use small claims court where it qualifies. Please write to us first: most problems can be solved quickly.
9. Changes
We may update these terms. The new version is posted here with a new effective date. If a change matters for you, we tell account holders by email before it takes effect, and paid plans keep their current terms until their next renewal. Continuing to use the site after that means you accept the new terms.
10. Contact
[email protected], or see the contact page. If any part of these terms cannot be enforced, the rest still applies.