Service Level Agreement for
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Coverage; Definitions

This Service Level Agreement (SLA) applies to you ("customer") if you have ordered any of the following shared hosting services from sgDomain Networks Pte. Ltd. (the "Services") and your account is current (i.e., not past due and not suspended/terminated due to non-payment) with sgDomain Networks Pte. Ltd.: iPresence, iBasic, iStandard, iPlus, iUltra plans. 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, as measured by sgDomain Networks Pte. Ltd.

In this SLA, "sgDomain Networks", "we" or "our" refers to sgDomain Networks Pte. Ltd., "client", "customer", "you", or "your" refers to the individual or company that subscribes to shared hosting service(s) provided by sgDomain Networks Pte. Ltd.

Service Level

sgDomain Networks aims to achieve 100% Web Site Availability for all customers.

Subject to Sections 1 and 2 below, if the Web Site Availability of customer's Web site is less than 100%, sgDomain Networks will issue a credit to customer in accordance with the following schedule, with the credit being calculated on the basis of the monthly service charge for the affected Services:

    Web Site Availability Credit Percentage
    99.9 to 100% 0%
    98% to 99.8% 10%
    95% to 97.9% 25%
    90% to 94.9% 50%
    89.9% or below 100%

 

  1. Exceptions

    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 sgDomain Networks' 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, ecommerce 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 Reach Internet Services Pte. Ltd. network, unless such failure is caused solely by sgDomain Networks;

    3. scheduled maintenance and emergency maintenance and upgrades;

    4. DNS issues outside the direct control of sgDomain Networks;

    5. issues with FTP, POP, IMAP, or SMTP customer access;

    6. false SLA breaches reported as a result of outages or errors of any sgDomain Networks 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, PHP, etc), any negligence, willful misconduct, or use of the Services in breach of sgDomain Networks' Acceptable Use Policy;

    8. e-mail or webmail delivery and transmission;

    9. DNS (Domain Name Server) Propagation.

    10. Expiry of Domain Name.

    11. outages elsewhere on the Internet that hinder access to your account. sgDomain Networks is not responsible for browser or DNS caching that may make your site appear inaccessible when others can still access it. sgDomain Networks will guarantee only those areas considered under the control of sgDomain Networks: sgDomain Networks' routers, sgDomain Networks' switches, and sgDomain Networks' servers.

     

  2. Credit Request and Payment Procedures

    In order to receive a credit, customer must make a request therefor by sending an email message to credit@sgdomain.com. Each request in connection with this SLA must include customer's domain name, contact details and the dates and times of the unavailability of customer's Web site and must be received by sgDomain Networks within five (5) business days after customer's Web Site was not available. Upon confirmation of the unavailability by sgDomain Networks, credits will be applied within two billing cycles after sgDomain Networks' receipt of customer's credit request.

    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 sgDomain Networks 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.

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