This Secured Cloud Services, Inc. ("SCS", "us" or "we") Service Level Agreement ("SLA") is a policy governing the use of SCS Services and applies separately to each account using the Included Services. Unless otherwise provided herein, this SLA is subject to the terms of your agreement with SCS governing your use of SCS's Services (the "Agreement") and capitalized terms used herein but not defined will have the same meaning specified in the Agreement. In the event of a conflict between the terms and conditions of the Agreement and the SLA, the terms and conditions of the SLA shall apply, but only to the extent of such conflict. The terms of this SLA may be altered in accordance with the Agreement.
SCS provided servers, connection software, and certificates to gain access to our data center hosting facilities. Backup of data center servers, licenses required by software vendors provided by SCS, and unmetered bandwidth at the SCS data center.
SCS will use commercially reasonable efforts to make each of SCS Services available 99.9% of the time on average with a Monthly Uptime Percentage (as defined below), in each case during any monthly billing cycle (the "Service Commitment"). In the event SCS Services do not meet the Service Commitment, you will be eligible to receive a Service Credit as described below.
Service Credits are calculated as a percentage of the total charges paid by you (excluding professional services or other one-time fees) for SCS Services, during the affected monthly billing cycle in which the Unavailability occurred in accordance with the schedule below.
Service Commitment: Monthly Uptime Percentage – Single Node Instantiation - (99.9%)
Service Credit Percentage
We will apply any Service Credits only against future SCS Service payments otherwise due from you. Service Credits will not entitle you to any refund or other payment from SCS. Service Credits may not be transferred or applied to any other account. Unless otherwise provided in the Agreement, your sole and exclusive remedy for any unavailability, non-performance, or other failure by us to provide SCS Service 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 written claim to the SCS Support Department at support@blycloud.com. To be eligible, the Service Credit request must be received by us by the end of the billing cycle in which the incident occurred. The following information must be included in the written Service Credit request:
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. No Service Credit will be issued if your account is past due, suspended or pending suspension. The total Service Credit shall not exceed 50% of the monthly fees charged during the month wherein you complained of Unavailability.
The service level commitment does not apply to any unavailability, suspension or termination of SCS Service performance issues: (i) that result from a suspension described in the Agreement; (ii) caused by factors outside of our reasonable control, including any force majeure event or Internet access or related problems (including but not limited to, service attacks, access bombing or other flooding techniques) that do not directly emanate from SCS Services; (iii) that result from any actions or inactions of you or any third party within the sole control of SCS; (iv) that result from your equipment, software or other technology and/or third party equipment, software or other technology (other than third party equipment within our direct control); (v) that result from any maintenance or other outage as provided for pursuant to the Agreement; or (vi) arising from our suspension and termination of your right to use SCS Service in accordance with the Agreement (collectively, the “SLA Exclusions”). 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 sole discretion.
How to Report an Issue
Blytheco technicians are available 24 hours a day. There are a number of ways to reach us, including toll free phone support and email.
-Phone: 1-877-496-5350 (+1 503-496-5350 International)
-Email: support@blytheco.com
-Web via the customer portal