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This service level agreement pertains to Web Prophets shared hosting, VPS, Managed Servers and Colocation services only.

Web Prophets Pty Ltd endeavours to achieve a secure environment that provides 100% availability to all of its clients. Web Prophets Pty Ltd maintains a fully redundant network and uses RAID disk mirroring on all servers to help achieve this goal.

The services outlined in this document will be available for use 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year for 99.95% of the time or greater, excluding scheduled maintenance and/or the failure of third party systems as outlined below.

The client will be given a minimum of 3 days notice of any outages for scheduled maintenance that are not of an urgent nature. Where possible, scheduled maintenance will occur outside of Business Hours (AEST) as defined in Web Prophets Terms and Conditions detailed on its website http://www.webprophets.com.au/hosting/terms-conditions.

If you are using one of our Shared Hosting, VPS, and/or Managed Server services then regular backups and the provision of system improvements as required (such as additional hardware, bandwidth, upgrades and patches to operating systems and applications) are included as part of the service. If you are a colocation client, then these services are only provided if you have elected to receive these services as part of your contract with us.

In the unlikely event we are unable to meet our 99.95% guarantee, a full credit will be issued as follows: 0% refund where Uptime is greater than 99.95% in a given calendar month ie. Total interruptions for that calendar month are less than 43 minutes 12 seconds
100% refund on any standard monthly charges for any services with an Uptime less than 99.95% in any given calendar month ie. Total interruptions for any affected service during that calendar month are greater than 43 minutes 12 seconds.

Standard monthly charges do NOT include any charges for any ad-hoc or contracted support or other works requested by the client during that calendar month.

To clarify, for clients with multiple services with Web Prophets, only the services directly affected are eligible for credit.
Credits are applied to your client account, and are not refundable or redeemable for cash.

Availability is measured per calendar month, and is reset each calendar month. Credits are based on the affected service charge for the month.

Web Prophets will not be bound to credit any monies/charges due to an inability to meet this Service Level Agreement for any accounts with any monies outstanding past the due date for those payments.

For clients with other than monthly payment terms, the credit is calculated by dividing the client payment by the number of months the client has paid for. I.e. an annual payment will have this total value divided by 12 to determine the credit applicable.
All credits are subject to the below exceptions and conditions of notification.

Exceptions:

• Force Majuere and other Circumstances beyond the reasonable control of Web Prophets Pty Ltd including, without limitation, acts of any governmental body, war, insurrection, sabotage, armed conflict, embargo, fire, flood, strike or other labour 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 uptime guarantee.
• Scheduled maintenance and emergency maintenance and upgrades.
• DNS issues outside the control of Web Prophets Pty Ltd, including but not limited to DNS propagation.
• Issues with FTP, POP, IMAP, or SMTP client access.
• Issues with CPanel (Control Panel).
• client's acts or omissions (or acts or omissions of others engaged or authorised by the client), including, without limitation, custom scripting or coding (e.g., PHP, HTML, etc), any negligence, wilful misconduct, or use of the Services in breach of Web Prophets Pty Ltd Terms and Conditions.
• Outages elsewhere on the Internet that hinder access to your account.
• Email or Webmail delivery and transmission Web Prophets Pty Ltd is not responsible for browser or DNS caching that may make your site appear inaccessible when others can still access it. Web Prophets Pty Ltd will guarantee only those areas considered to be under the reasonable control of Web Prophets Pty Ltd.

Conditions of Notification: To receive a credit you must send an email to info@webprophets.com.au or phone Web Prophets Pty Ltd on 03 9534 1800. This information must include the dates and times of the unavailability, any error messages or alerts that resulted from the unavailability, along with your domain name and account details.

This information must be received by Web Prophets Pty Ltd within five (5) business days of the incident.

Support Availability

Web Prophets Pty Ltd  provides a Help Desk to respond to Client queries
Our office is available between the hours of 8.30 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. on Victorian business days, 10am to 4pm on Saturdays
Our Help Desk is available 24 hours a day / 7 days per week for Emergencies
When issues occur we post updates on issues and resolutions on our Facebook and Twitter pages. We strongly advise Clients to follow these pages to receive the most up-to-date information.
The Help Desk will be equipped to answer the vast majority of all requests during the initial call.
When the Help Desk is required to seek further assistance to respond to the client query, a response outlining the action that is to be taken will be provided to the client within 30 minutes of making the determination that such further assistance is required.
On average 90% of all client queries/issues will be addressed within 2 hours.

Last modified 25 October 2016.