Effective Date: July 1, 2009Introduction.
Tangonet LLC, strives to offer you (“Customer”) unparalleled service,
including the availability of its Website Hosting, Hosted Microsoft
Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, ActiveSync,
Good Mobile, Archiving, Advanced Anti-Spam & Virus Protection services
(the “Hosted Services”). By this Service Level Agreement (“SLA”), Tangonet
guarantees to Customer that its Hosted Services will be available 99.9% of
the time during any calendar month, subject to the terms and as set forth
in this SLA (the “Uptime Guarantee”).
Covered Services. Tangonet provides the
Uptime Guarantee in this SLA for its Hosted Services, calculated on a
monthly basis, provided Customer (i) is in good standing with Tangonet
(i.e., is not delinquent in payments, and has not otherwise breached any
of its obligations to Tangonet), and (ii) requests the Hosted Service
Credit (as defined below) from Tangonet for its noncompliance with the
Uptime Guarantee in writing within 30 days of the end of the month in
which such noncompliance occurred.
Exclusions. Downtime caused by any of the
events noted below will be excluded from the Hosted Service availability
calculations (“Excused Outages”):
(i) Customer environment issues affecting
connectivity or interfering with the Hosted Services, including without
limitation, Customer’s connection to the Internet (i.e., problems with the
Customer’s Internet Service Provider, modem, cable, DSL or dial-up
connection or other Customer Internet connectivity issues) or any other
Customer software or equipment, Customer’s firewall software, hardware or
security settings, Customer’s configuration of anti-virus software or
anti-spyware or malware software, or operator error of Customer;
(ii) third party attacks, including without
limitation, hacks, intrusions, distributed denial-of-service attacks or
any other third party actions intended to cause harm to or disrupt the
Hosted Services, the Tangonet Website or Tangonet’s or its partners’
servers;
(iii) verified bugs of any third party software used
in conjunction with the Hosted Services (including Microsoft software);
(iv) force majeure events, including, without
limitation fire, flood, earthquake, elements of nature or acts of God;
third party labor disruptions, acts of war, terrorism, riots, civil
disorders, rebellions or revolutions; quarantines, embargoes and other
similar governmental action; or any other similar cause beyond the
reasonable control of Tangonet;
(v) issues related to third party domain name system
(DNS) errors or failures;
(vi) scheduled maintenance of the Hosted Services,
conducted on a regular basis, of which Tangonet will give Customer a
minimum of 24hrs advanced notice by email or notification posted to the
Tangonet Control Panel; and
(vii) emergency maintenance of the Hosted Services,
not to exceed 8 hours in any month, for which Customer may not receive
advanced notice.
Non Compliance. In the event Tangonet fails
to meet the Uptime Guarantee regarding one or more of its Hosted Services
(the “Affected Service(s)”), as verified by Tangonet based on its
monitoring logs (a “Service Outage”), Customer will be entitled to a
credit for future Hosted Services of the same type as the Affected
Services ( “Hosted Service Credits”).
Hosted Service Credit Calculation. For each
full 1% of downtime, of verified Service Outage in any calendar month
(based on a 30-day month calculation), excluding downtime caused by an
Excused Outage (an “Outage Unit”), Customer will receive a Hosted Service
Credit equal to 5% of the monthly subscription fees paid by the Customer
for the users impacted by the Affected Service. Should a Service Outage
span more than one month, the calculation of Hosted Service Credits starts
over at the beginning of each month.
Hosted Service Credits Payment. Hosted
Service Credits will be issued in the form of a credit towards Customer's
next invoice, unless the affected month is Customer's last month of
subscription to the Affected Services, in which case the dollar value of
the Hosted Service Credits, as calculated herein, will be issued to
Customer by Tangonet within 60 calendar days from the end of the
Customer’s last month of subscription to the Hosted Services.
Total Credit Limits. Hosted Service Credits
will apply only to a Customer’s users directly affected by a Service
Outage, and Hosted Service Credits may not exceed 50% of the total
subscription fees of the Affected Services, excluding applicable taxes.
Hosted Service Credits will not be issued for any fraction of an Outage
Unit and will not accrue or carry over from month to month.
Notwithstanding anything set forth in this SLA, the Hosting Service Credit
described herein shall be the sole and exclusive remedy of the Customer in
connection with any outages, unavailability or breach by Tangonet of this
SLA.