Terms & Licence

Plain version first, because nobody reads the long one: buy it once, use it with your own family forever, print as much as you like, and do not resell it or hand out the files. If it does not work for you, ask and we refund it. The longer version follows, because a licence that exists only as a friendly summary is no use to either of us.

Who you are buying from

These materials are sold by Oceanus Networks LLC, a California limited liability company, trading as Wren & Psalter. Contact: support@wrenandpsalter.com. A card charge from us shows on your statement as WRENPSALTER.

Post reaches us at:

Oceanus Networks LLC
PO Box 4226
Oceanside, CA 92056

Email is faster. The box is there because a business that sells you something should be findable by post, and because the law requires it of anyone who sends marketing email.

What you may do

Everything we sell is a digital file licensed for personal, single-household use. That licence covers:

• Every child in your household, now and later. One purchase, however many students you teach.
• Printing as many copies as your own family needs, on paper or a tablet.
• Editing the files. A Bible course description is only honest when it matches the catechism, memory work and reading actually done in your house, so we expect you to rewrite ours.
• Changing the verse headers, swapping the translation, or taking the verses out entirely.
• Using your edited versions in your own records, including transcripts and portfolios you submit to a district, evaluator, or college. Those become your documents and we make no claim on them.

What you may not do

• Share, send, upload, or post the original files, including to a co-op drive, a class group, a church file share, or any shared folder.
• Resell them, edited or not, for money or as a bonus attached to something else.
• Include them in a paid course, membership, or curriculum you sell.
• Use them to make a competing product, including feeding them to a machine-learning system for that purpose.

A co-op or small group teaching from these together needs one licence per household, churches and Christian schools included. Ask us and we will sort out something reasonable rather than expensive.

Refunds

Digital files usually come with no refunds at all. Ours do not work that way. If something you bought is not right for you, write to support@wrenandpsalter.com within 14 days and we will refund it. You do not have to explain yourself, and we do not ask you to delete anything first, which we could not verify anyway.

That includes buying the wrong edition. The Protestant and Catholic packs differ in the translation, the memory work, the feast days and the way a Bible credit is described, and it is easy to click the wrong one. We will swap it or refund it, whichever you prefer.

Scripture and the translations we use

We quote only translations in the public domain. In the Protestant editions that means the King James Version. The Catholic edition uses the Douay-Rheims, Challoner revision, from the 1899 American printing. If we ever set another public-domain text, the file will name it on the page it appears on.

The reason is dull and it matters. Modern translations are licensed, not free. Biblica caps NIV quotation at 500 verses, under 25 percent of your work, and short of a complete book of the Bible (Biblica permissions, read 25 July 2026). Crossway's ESV terms match that and add a limit of half of any one book (Crossway permissions, read 25 July 2026). Tyndale sets 500 verses and 25 percent for the NLT (Tyndale permissions, read 25 July 2026). All three require a specific credit line printed with the text.

Generous limits, and still the wrong shape for what we sell. A credit line is a condition, and a condition has to stay attached to a file we are actively telling you to take apart. So we do not print copyrighted translations at all. If your family reads the ESV at the table, retype the verse into the header field yourself.

One honest wrinkle about the KJV. It is public domain in the United States. In Britain it never went through ordinary copyright at all. It sits under Crown rights exercised through Letters Patent, and Cambridge University Press administers those as Queen's Printer, having taken over the Bibles list of Eyre & Spottiswoode in 1990, with a remit covering England, Wales and Northern Ireland (Cambridge University Press & Assessment, "Royal connections", read 25 July 2026). We sell from California and print for households. Reproducing our files commercially in Britain is yours to check, and this licence does not settle it.

Hymns, and the trap underneath them

A hymn is at least two works and sometimes four: the text, the tune, the harmonisation and any translation. They fall out of copyright separately, so the words can be two hundred years old and free while the arrangement printed under them is recent and protected. Copyright in new material added to an older work reaches only the new material (17 U.S.C. 103(b)). "How Great Thou Art" catches careful people for exactly that reason. Carl Boberg's Swedish text of 1885 is long free. The English everyone actually sings is Stuart K. Hine's, written in 1949 and owned by the Stuart Hine Trust (Hymnary.org, "How Great Thou Art", read 25 July 2026).

So we print from a source published early enough to be clear, and we name it. That means a hymnal or edition published in the United States in 1930 or earlier. As of 1 January 2026 a work of that era has outlived the ninety-five-year maximum term the statute allows a published work (17 U.S.C. 304; U.S. Copyright Office, Circular 15a). The edition and the year sit at the foot of the hymn page, so you can pull up the same scan and check us.

This licence covers our typesetting and our selection. It does not cover a recording or a performance; streaming a service usually needs a CCLI Streaming License (CCLI, Streaming and Streaming Plus Licenses, read 25 July 2026).

About the state requirement summaries

Our state pages are general information, not legal advice. We are not lawyers and we are not your lawyers. Each entry carries its statute citation, a source link and the date we last reviewed it, so you can check our reading against the code yourself. Homeschool law changes. Ohio dropped its annual assessment and moved home education out of administrative rule into statute, effective 3 October 2023, at Ohio Rev. Code 3321.042 (H.B. 33, 135th General Assembly). Wyoming dropped the annual curriculum filing on 1 July 2025, when H.B. 46 amended Wyo. Stat. 21-4-102(b) (2025 Wyo. Sess. Laws, House Enrolled Act 28).

Read that second one narrowly. H.B. 46 amended subsection (b) and nothing else, and the withdrawal-consent requirement in subsection (c) is still standing. "Wyoming stopped asking for the curriculum" is true. "Wyoming stopped asking for anything" is not. Ours will go stale the same way, so check with your own state before a filing deadline. If you find us out of date, tell us and we will fix it and reissue the pack to everyone who owns it.

One caution specific to this brand. Whether a state counts Bible as an academic credit, and how a religious exemption or church-school filing changes what you owe an evaluator, varies by state and sometimes by district. We note what the statute says. We cannot tell you how your county superintendent reads it.

Public-domain sources

The illustrations, the ornaments and any historical texts in these materials are in the public domain, and each is credited where it appears, with the date and the collection we took it from. What is ours is the arrangement, the typesetting, the selection and the written content, and that is what this licence covers.

Delivery

Files are delivered immediately after purchase by download link and by email. If the link does not arrive, check your spam folder once, then write to us and we will send the files directly.

Changes to these terms

If we change this page, the version you bought under continues to apply to what you already own. New terms apply to new purchases. Last updated 27 July 2026.