Service Level Agreement & Credits
Last Updated: August 1st, 2017This Social HorsePower Service Level Agreement (“SLA”) between SocialHP Media, Inc. (“SocialHP”, “Social HorsePower”, “us” or “we”) and users of the SocialHP employee advocacy platform under the provisions of the SocialHP Terms of Service.
Unless otherwise provided herein, this SLA is subject to the provisions of the Terms.
We reserve the right to change the terms of this SLA in accordance with the Terms and Conditions for the Service Offering.
SocialHP will use commercially reasonable efforts to make your employee advocacy platform will be available with a Monthly Uptime Percentage of at least 99.95% during any monthly billing cycle (the “Service Commitment”). Subject to the SLA Exclusions, if we do not meet the Service Commitment, you will be eligible to receive a Service Credit.
A Monthly Uptime Percentage of 99.95% means that we guarantee you will experience no more than 21.56 min/month of Unavailability.
“Maintenance” means scheduled Unavailability of the employee advocacy platform, as announced by us prior to the services becoming Unavailable.
“Monthly Uptime Percentage” is calculated by subtracting from 100% the percentage of minutes during the month in which the employee advocacy platform services were Unavailable. Monthly Uptime Percentage measurements exclude downtime resulting directly or indirectly from any SLA Exclusion.
“Service Credit” means a credit denominated in US dollars, calculated as set forth below, that we may credit back to an eligible account.
“Unavailable” and “Unavailability” means the SocialHP technlogy is non-accessable by the customer for more than:
- 15 contiguous minutes in one business day (24-hour period based on GMT) or 90 total minutes in one business day
- Due to a non-scheduled system crash
- Where notice was not provided to Customer
- or the downtime wasn't part of standard upgrade or scheduled maintenance windows
- and where the down time was not caused by “Force Majeure” or by Customer's actions inconsistent with the Agreement
In the event of an alert, SocialHP is deemed to have responded when it has replied to Customer's initial request. This may be in the form of an email or telephone call, to acknowledge receipt of Customer's request, provide a solution, or request further information.
The Response Time and Resolution Time will depend on the priority of the item(s) affected and the severity of the alert, as set out in the following schedule:
Alert Type | Issue severity | Response Time | Resolution Time |
A-Priority Alert | Highly critical alert. Product is not available for use or a significant proportion of the contracted functionalities are not available. | Within 1 hour | Within 4 hours, inclusive of the A-Priority Alert Response Time. |
B-Priority Alert | Critical alert. One or more elements of the Product critical to the functioning of Customer's business have ceased to respond completely or respond extremely slowly. | Within 24 hours | Within 24 hours, exclusive of the B-Priority Alert Response Time. |
C-Priority Alert | Non-critical alert. One or more elements of the Product have ceased to respond completely or respond slowly and a workaround is available. | Within 48 hours | Within 48 hours, exclusive of the C-Priority Alert Response Time. |
D-Priority Alert | Notification of minor issue that does not prohibit Customer from utilizing Product in any material way. | Within 48 hours | Best effort. |
Service Credits are calculated as a percentage of the total charges due on your Enclave invoice for the monthly billing cycle in which the Unavailability occurred, applied proportionally to the Services that were Unavailable, in accordance with the schedule below:
- For Monthly Uptime Percentage less than 99.95% but equal to or greater than 99.0%, you will be eligible for a Service Credit of 10% of the charges attributable to the affected resources
- For Monthly Uptime Percentage less than 99.0%, you will be eligible for a Service Credit of 30% of the charges attributable to the affected resources
For example, if the service is Unavailable for 25 minutes, you would be eligible for a Service Credit for 10% of that container's usage for the month.
We will apply any Service Credits only against future payments for the Services otherwise due from you. At our discretion, we may issue the Service Credit to the credit card you used to pay for the billing cycle in which the Unavailability occurred. Service Credits will not entitle you to any refund or other payment from SocialHP. A Service Credit will be applicable and issued only if the credit amount for the applicable monthly billing cycle is greater than one dollar ($1 USD). Service Credits may not be transferred or applied to any other account.
Unless otherwise provided in the Terms, your sole and exclusive remedy for any unavailability, non-performance, or other failure by us to provide the Services is the receipt of a Service Credit (if eligible) in accordance with the terms of this SLA.
To receive a Service Credit, you must submit a claim by emailing info@socialhp.com. To be eligible, the credit request must be received by us by the end of the second billing cycle after which the incident occurred and must include:
- the words “SLA Credit Request” in the subject line;
- the dates and times of each Unavailability incident that you are claiming;
- the account handle(s); and
- logs that document the errors and corroborate your claimed outage (any confidential or sensitive information in these logs should be removed or replaced with asterisks).
If the Monthly Uptime Percentage of such request is confirmed by us and is less than the Service Commitment, then we will issue the Service Credit to you within one billing cycle following the month in which your request is confirmed by us. Your failure to provide the request and other information as required above will disqualify you from receiving a Service Credit.
The Service Commitment does not apply to any Unavailability:
- That results from a suspension or Remedial Action, as described in the Terms;
- Caused by factors outside of our reasonable control, including any force majeure event, Internet access, or problems beyond the demarcation point of the SocialHP network;
- That results from any actions or inactions of you or any third party;
- That results from the equipment, software or other technology of you or any third party (other than third party equipment within our direct control);
- That results from failures of SocialHP Services not attributable to Unavailability; or
- That results from any Maintenance.
If availability is impacted by factors other than those used in our Monthly Uptime Percentage calculation, then we may issue a Service Credit considering such factors at our discretion.