Service Level Agreement

Date of last revision: 6th June 2022

This Service Level Agreement (SLA) applies to you ("customer") if you currently hold an account with any of the Shared Web Hosting services from Hostvision Cloud Services (the "Services") and your account is current (i.e., not past due) with Hostvision Cloud Services.

As used herein, the term "Web Site Availability" means the percentage of a particular month (based on 24-hour days for the number of days in the subject month) that the content of customer's Web site is available for access by third parties via HTTP and/or HTTPS, as measured by Hostvision Cloud Services.

Service Level

Objective: Hostvision Cloud Services aims to achieve 100% Web Site Availability for all customers.

Remedy: Except under the conditions mentioned in the next section below, if the Web Site Availability of customer's Web site is less than 100% clients may request a credit according to the following table:

*in a 30 day calendar month

The credit will be calculated based on the the monthly equivalent of service charge for the affected Services.

Example: An ₦3800 annual package experiencing 99.7% uptime over a calendar month would be entitled to 10% of the equivalent monthly charge. ₦380 per month, 10% of which is ₦38.

Maintenance Procedure

1. Hostvision Cloud Services will do its best to announce any scheduled maintenance at least 24 hours ahead of time to the customer.
2. Hostvision Cloud Services reserves the right to perform emergency maintenance without any prior notification, should it be deemed necessary to protect and maintain the security and integrity of the Service.

Conditions

Customer shall not receive any credits under this SLA in connection with any failure or deficiency of Web Site Availability caused by or associated with:

1. Circumstances beyond Hostvision Cloud Services's reasonable control, including, without limitation, acts of any governmental body, war, insurrection, sabotage, armed conflict, embargo, fire, flood, strike or other labor disturbance, interruption of or delay in transportation, unavailability of or interruption or delay in telecommunications or third party services, virus attacks or hackers, failure of third party software (including, without limitation, e-commerce software, payment gateways, chat, statistics or free scripts) or inability to obtain raw materials, supplies, or power used in or equipment needed for provision of this SLA;
2. Failure of access circuits to the Hostvision Cloud Services's Network or it's upstream providers, unless such failure is caused solely by Hostvision Cloud Services;
3. Scheduled maintenance and emergency maintenance and upgrades;
4. DNS issues outside the direct control of Hostvision Cloud Services;
5. Issues with FTP, POP, IMAP, or SMTP customer access;
6. False SLA breaches reported as a result of outages or errors of any Hostvision Cloud Services's measurement system;
7. Customer's acts or omissions (or acts or omissions of others engaged or authorized by customer), including, without limitation, custom scripting or coding (e.g., CGI, Perl, HTML, ASP, etc), any negligence, willful misconduct, or use of the Services in breach of Hostvision Cloud Services's Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy;
8. E-mail or webmail delivery and transmission;
9. DNS (Domain Name Server) Propagation.
10. Outages elsewhere on the Internet that hinder access to your account. Hostvision Cloud Services is not responsible for browser or DNS caching that may make your site appear inaccessible when others can still access it. Hostvision Cloud Services will guarantee only those areas considered under the control of Hostvision Cloud Services : Hostvision Cloud Services server links to the Internet, and Hostvision Cloud Services's servers.

Credit Request and Payment Procedures

In order to receive a credit, customer must make a request therefore by submitting a Support ticket from within the Customer Support Portal at https://hostvision.com.ng/aspire/submitticket.php In order to validate such claims customers must be logged into the portal at the time of submission. Each request in connection with this SLA must include customer's account name (per customer's control panel login) and the dates and times of the unavailability of customer's Web site and must be received by Hostvision Cloud Services within ten (10) business days after customer's Web Site was not available. If the unavailability is confirmed by Hostvision Cloud Services (and appointed third parties), credits will be applied within two months after Hostvision Cloud Services's receipt of customer's credit request. Credits are not refundable and can be used only towards future billing charges.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the total amount credited to customer in a particular month under this SLA shall not exceed the total hosting fee paid by customer for such month for the affected Services. Credits are exclusive of any applicable taxes charged to customer or collected by Hostvision Cloud Services and are customer's sole and exclusive remedy with respect to any failure or deficiency in the Web Site Availability of customer's Web site.

Note: Credits are not refundable and can be used only towards future billing charges.

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