Eligibility Criteria 

Merchants eligible to use either InAcademia service editions must: 

• Serve the interest of end users affiliated with research and education.
• Sign the Agreement and comply with its terms.
• Register a point of contact for dealing with technical issues and incidents involving their services and other information required in the registration process.
• Operate a supported client implementation in accordance with the InAcademia interface specification.
• Cooperate in resolving incidents and report incidents in cases where these incidents could negatively affect the security, trustworthiness or reputation of the InAcademia service, Participating Federations or its members.

Additional criteria for Merchants that are eligible to use the InAcademia Community and Commercial Edition are set out in Sections 3.1 and 3.2 below. 

Eligibility Criteria for the InAcademia Community Edition 

To qualify for the InAcademia Community Edition, each Merchant must: 

• Operate primarily for the purpose of supporting research and scholarship interaction and activities.
• Be either a not-for-profit organisation, an institution or a registered charity.
• Be sponsored by a Participating Federation that commits to ongoing relationship management and technical support, unless the Steering Committee has agreed that the Service Operator will become the Registrar of last resort.

Merchants that charge a fee for using the service may be considered eligible to use the Community Edition, where they meet the Eligibility Criteria and the fee is levied in order to sustain the service.

Eligibility Criteria for the InAcademia Commercial Edition 

To qualify for the InAcademia Commercial Edition, each Merchant must:

• Be VAT registered (or registered VAT Exempt), and registered in an EU Member State where the VAT Reverse Charge applies, or 
• Be registered in a country in which GEANT Vereniging (Association) is registered for VAT.
• Provide their VAT registration (or exemption number) to the Service Operator prior to signing the contract.
• Demonstrate to the Service Operator that they are solvent and able to pay the fees (where fees are applicable).
• Be sponsored by relevant Participating Federations, who commit to ongoing relationship management and technical support.

The Service Operator reserves the right to assess all ‘applications’/registrations from Commercial Edition Merchants for VAT applicability prior to completing their registration, particularly when registering in a country where InAcademia does not already have Commercial Edition customers.”

Exclusions

The Licensee shall not do or omit to do anything that is or could be prejudicial to the reputation of the Licensor or the Service or which could bring the Licensor into disrepute or otherwise negatively impact the brand of the Licensor ("Prohibited Activities"). 

Prohibited Activities shall include:

(a) exploiting or promoting illegal or improper, unsavoury, offensive or unethical behaviour;

(b) the sale or licensing, or creation or transmission of, or causing the transmission, of

(i) any offensive, obscene or indecent images, data or other material;

(ii) material with the intent to cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety;

(iii) defamatory material;

(iv) material that violates the privacy of others or deliberately breaches the
intellectual property rights of others;

(v) unsolicited bulk or marketing material to users of networked facilities or services, save where that material is embedded within, or is otherwise part of, a service to which the user or their user organisation has chosen to subscribe;

(c) denying service to other users; or

(d) the deliberate introduction or dissemination of harmful software