Are you eligible for AquaFold academic discount pricing?

Customers meeting the criteria below are defined as Qualified Educational Users and are eligible to acquire AquaFold products in the programs indicated:

• Educational Institutions
• Administrative Offices & Boards of Education
• Teachers, Faculty and Staff
• Students
• Public Libraries
• Public Museums
• Home-School Programs

AquaFold Qualified Educational User definition

1. Educational Institutions
   Defined as an accredited institution organized and operated exclusively for the purpose of teaching its enrolled students ("Educational Institutions"). An accredited institution must be:
   1. A public or private K-12, vocational school, correspondence school, junior college, college, university, or scientific or technical school that is institutionally accredited by an accrediting national agency.
      
      OR
   
   
   2. A preschool meeting all of the following criteria:
      1. is an early childhood program incorporated for the purpose of providing educational services to children between two and five years of age, and which serves minimum of ten such children;
         and
         
      2. has been in operation for at least one year.
   
   
2. Administrative Offices or Boards of Education
   Defined as
   1. district, regional and state administrative offices of public Educational Institutions
   2. administrative entities organized and operated exclusively for the administration of private Educational Institutions,
      or
      
   3. other state or local government entities nearly all of whose activities consist of administrative support, of a nature that advances academic learning, for public Educational Institutions.
   
   
3. Full and Part Time Faculty and Staff
   Defined as all full and part time faculty and staff of Educational Institutions.
   
4. Full and Part Time Enrolled Students
   Defined as full and part time enrolled students of Educational Institutions.
   
5. Public Libraries
   Must meet all of the following criteria: (i) primarily provide general library services without charge to all residents of a given community, district or region; (ii) supported by public or private funds; (iii) make its basic collections and basic services available to the population of its legal service area without charges to individual users, but may impose charges on users outside its legal service area; and (iv) may or may not provide products and services, beyond its basic services, to the public at large with or without individual charges.
   
6. Public Museums
   Must meet all the following criteria: (i) are a public or private agency or institution organized on a permanent basis for essentially education or aesthetic purposes; (ii) utilize a professional staff; and (iii) own or utilize tangible objects, care for them and exhibit them to the public on a regular basis.
   
7. Home-School Program
   Defined as a home-schooling program which provides K-12 education to a student or students and which is able to provide written proof that it either
   1. belongs to a nationally-recognized home-schooling organization,
      or
      
   2. is expressly recognized by a local school district as an acceptable alternative to an accredited or state-recognized/approved educational institution.

Special note regarding Hospitals, Healthcare Systems and Research Laboratories:
Hospitals, Healthcare Systems and Research Laboratories (including independent Research Laboratories or Research Laboratories affiliated with the Department of Defense or the Department of Energy) are NOT eligible to acquire Academic Edition products unless they are wholly owned and operated by a qualified Educational Institution as defined above in Section A. "Wholly owned and operated" means that the Educational Institution is the sole owner of said hospital, healthcare system or research laboratory and the only entity exercising control over said institution's day-to-day operations.

Examples of entities not eligible for academic pricing:

• Non-accredited schools
• Training centers
• Churches
• Hospitals, Healthcare Systems, and Research Laboratories that do not meet the qualifications above
• Non-profit/charitable organizations that do not meet the qualifications above