Instructor Membership Renewal
Maintain exclusive yearly benefits with IKO
As a professional Instructor, you surely understand that the sport of kiteboarding is growing and evolving fast, as well as the teaching techniques, the knowledge and the standards of quality endorsed by IKO. Your membership helps support our constant efforts to keep the highest standards of safety and quality for the practice, learning and teaching of kiteboarding.
Benefits of being an IKO Instructor
How can I renew my membership?
ACCESS YOUR IKO ACCOUNT
Log in to your account on the IKO website and click on the “Renew/Upgrade” orange button on the homepage of your profile. If you get an error message when renewing your membership, check the FAQs below.
CHOOSE YOUR MEMBERSHIP PLAN
Choose your membership according to your needs and follow the procedure to pay via Paypal or bank transfer. Set up your automatic renewal to have your membership renew automatically every year.
ENJOY YOUR IKO MEMBERSHIP
As soon as the payment is received, you can check that your expiry date has been extended by 1 year and that your status is set to “Active”. You are now good to go again!
FAQ See all
Log in to your account on the IKO website to find your expiry date on the homepage of your profile. Renew before your expiry date to avoid losing your licence to teach and all the benefits of being an IKO Assistant/Instructor.
You can pay with a credit card, bank transfer, or PayPal.
Next time that you renew your membership, choose “Automatic renewal with Paypal”. This will enable a recurring payment every year on your expiry date. Make sure that your Paypal account has funds.
From the day that your membership expires, you are no longer recognized as an IKO Instructor which means that you lose your license to teach and all the benefits associated with being a member of IKO including insurance coverage..
If you leave your membership expired for more than 2 months, you will have to pay late fees of $40 USD on top of your membership. Late fees encourage members to renew on time and cover additional administrative work involved in late renewals. The late fee will extend your membership by one year after the payment date where as the regular membership renewal extends your membership by one year after the current expiry date.
If you leave your membership expired for more than 12 months, you will have to pass an online exam corresponding to your certification level with a score higher than 70% to be able to renew. Late fees will apply on top of the membership renewal.
If you leave your membership expired for more than 2 years, you will have to attend an Instructor Reinstaitment Course (IRC) to be reactivated.
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