Terms & Conditions

IEAA’s mission is to enhance the quality and standing of Australian international education by:

• Serving the professional needs and interests of members, with a view to improving the quality of professional knowledge, skills and discourse.
• Encouraging high quality, informed and ethical professional practice among members.
• Promoting international education with governments, education organisations and within the community.

IEAA membership:

• Membership is available to persons in Australia and overseas.
• Benefits and entitlements and the costs associated with membership may be reviewed and altered annually by the IEAA Annual General Meeting held in October each year.
• Membership is for one year from the date of joining/renewal except for those members whose subscription is paid through an Institutional Sponsorship and the member is added partway through the sponsorship period.
• Members and Institutional Sponsors will be issued membership renewal notices to their nominated email address. It is the member’s responsibility to ensure the email address is active and current.
• If a membership subscription is not renewed by the date of expiry, it is assumed that the member does not wish to renew their membership and as such access to the Members Area of the IEAA website will be denied the day following the expiry date.
• A member may cancel their membership at any time by contacting the IEAA Secretariat.

Institutional memberships and charter agreements:

• An organisation may become an IEAA organisational or charter member and subject to the level of membership sought will be entitled to receive a stipulated number of individual memberships.
• Institutions and organisations are responsible for coordinating the membership and applications under their respective arrangements.
• An institutional or charter member may add members at their discretion at any time during the subscription period to fulfil their quota. To do so, the recognised authorised officer may contact IEAA requesting the additional membership(s). The relevant member subscription(s) will expire at the same time as the membership expires.
• Once the quota for the organisational/charter member has been reached, no further members may be added under that agreement. However additional memberships may be purchased.

You agree to:

• provide IEAA with accurate, current and complete information, for the purposes of registering you as a user of the system and if applicable recording your Membership details and you will update these details as required to ensure they remain current.
• be responsible for the safekeeping of your username and password and that you will be liable if your username or password is used by an unauthorised person. You agree that, upon becoming aware that your password or account is (or believed to be) being used without authorisation, you will immediately change your password and notify [email protected]. You agree to release and indemnify IEAA in connection with any use of your username or password.
• be responsible for any charges to your account and any activities conducted through your account. You may elect to pay your account via credit card or direct deposit/ EFT. If you provide your credit card details, you authorise IEAA or its agents to charge all fees incurred to the credit card and this authorisation remains valid until you advise otherwise either via the Members Only Area on the IEAA website or in writing. You may elect to have IEAA or its agents store the credit card details on a secure server.
• by registering as a User you acknowledge that the services are provided only for personal and professional use by you.
• IEAA providing you with information prepared by IEAA, electronically or by other means, in addition to the regular mailing lists. IEAA members may ‘opt in’ or ‘opt out’ from mailing lists at any time.

You agree not to:

• impersonate any other person
• resell your membership entitlements or information or services provided by IEAA.
• use the IEAA website to send unsolicited advertisements for goods or services of any kind (spamming)
• send mass mailings, chain letters, or promote pyramid schemes to members
• send mail bombs (maliciously send unusually large and numerous files)
• make available through this website any material which:
  a) violates or infringes the rights of others (including their privacy and intellectual property rights);
  b) encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence or otherwise violate any law;
  c) is unlawful, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, or which may harass or cause distress or inconvenience to, or incite hatred of, any person;
  d) restricts or prevents any other user from using or enjoying the site;
  e) is designed to negatively affect the functionality or operation of any computer software, hardware or telecommunications equipment (e.g. by transmitting a computer virus or other harmful component, whether or not knowingly).