This service level agreement (“SLA”) sets forth the services
provided by Affordable IPTV DBA AffordableDomains.ca (“Affordable IPTV”) and
the responsibilities they maintain for support and services towards their
product and the Client
Together with the Terms of Services https://www.affordableiptv.ca/termsofservice.php Acceptable
Use Policy https://www.affordableiptv.ca/acceptable-use-policy.php and
Privacy Policy https://www.affordableiptv.ca/privacy-policy.php set
out all roles and responsibilities we take with your relationship with
Affordable IPTV.
1. Term
The SLA is an ongoing agreement with the Client. The SLA
will be reviewed and updated on a periodic basis. Changes to this agreement
will be governed in the same manner as to those outline is the Terms of
Service.
If the definitions or provisions of the SLA conflict with
the Terms of Service, the Terms of Services conditions will apply.
If any specific terms in the SLA conflict with the Terms of
Service, the specific terms in the SLA will apply.
If any specific services that are outlined in an Order or as
agreed to between Affordable IPTV or the Client, those specific terms will
apply.
2. Service Description
Affordable IPTV provides an online video streaming service that allows clients to browse distinctive offerings of live and on-demand programs as well as ancillary services in delivery of
these services to the Client. Affordable IPTV will provide timely support in
delivery of these services to assist the Client with their initial setup and
ongoing support needs.
3. Account Setup
Affordable IPTV will do a risk review on all orders prior to
activation. There are instances where we may need to follow up with your order
for clarification or to verify information provided.
You will be contacted via email at the email address
supplied when your order has been activated and next steps, or whether we have
some further questions before we can activate your order. Most orders are
activated within 24-hours unless maintenance is being performed.
Affordable IPTV does retain the right to decline any order
if in their reasonable commercial opinion are not satisfied with the
information supplied.
4. Services
The service Affordable IPTV provides are categorized as the
following:
5. Service Availability
Affordable IPTV does NOT guarantees service availability per
calendar month for all services.
Service is considered available if the following conditions
are met:
Data Centre – Power, cooling and humidity levels are
monitored. If monitoring is not detecting any abnormalities to these, the data
centre service is considered available.
Network – The network infrastructure is measured by the
performance of a ping test. For those Clients using Affordable IPTV’s DNS,
monitoring is conducted in the same manner. If the physical servers are
responding to a ping test to an external monitoring node then this service is
considered available.
Server – Each physical server and the components to those
servers are monitored internally to detect any abnormalities. If our internal
management software that is additionally verified by external monitoring is not
detecting any service failure, the server is considered available.
If any of the conditions above is not met, and is not
considered a scheduled maintenance or force majure event, any downtime is
considered towards the 99.90% service guarantee.
If in the calendar month the service is unavailable for
greater than 99.90%, a credit for 10x the time exceeding the .10% downtime
allowance will be applied. The Client would contact Billing to have an account
credit applied within seven days of the end of the calendar month.
The calculation to determine service availability is as
follows:
(Minutes in Calendar Month minus Minutes in Calendar Month
of Service Unavailability) / Minutes in Calendar Month
6. System Monitoring and Maintenance
If there are any service impacting issues, Affordable IPTV
is continuously monitoring servers 24/7 and will act immediately to identify,
troubleshoot, and bring up Services as soon as possible. Server monitoring is
performed in conjunction with external monitoring services.
There will be ongoing maintenance that will need to be
performed and will schedule this maintenance during late evenings and weekends.
If there is emergency maintenance, the maintenance will be performed as soon as
necessary. Scheduled maintenance will be planned with at minimum seven days’
notice.
Updates to the Client will be done through the status page
at http://www.affordableiptv.ca/serverstatus.php for
service impacting issues, emergency maintenance, and scheduled maintenance. An
email to the primary contact on the account will be sent for scheduled
maintenance.
All reasonable efforts will be done to provide updates to
Clients depending on the severity of the issue, including posting of regular
updates on social media.
7. Support
Affordable IPTV provides Technical Support to the Client in
relation to the services provided at no additional charge. Support is provided
24/7/365.
A support ticket can be opened through our Client Area
at https://www.affordableiptv.ca.
When a ticket is opened you will receive an email confirming that the ticket
has been opened.
Responses to tickets will be emailed to the Client. They
will be able to respond to the ticket by replying to the email, or by replying
to the ticket direct in the Client Area.
Affordable IPTV categorizes requests for support based on
the following with an example of what we define as those priorities. The
examples are not exhaustive and for illustration purposes only.
All support requests may not be able to be resolved in the
above-mentioned timelines, and may require additional information,
troubleshooting and research to fully resolve the situation.
8. Scope of Support
All services have support for the following:
Network Issues – Affordable IPTV will provide support to
investigate any issues in network performance, and connectivity to services.
Hardware Issues – As part of Affordable IPTV’s monitoring as well as regular visual inspection will ensure that components to the servers and related connected components within the data centre are performing optimally, keep on hand and replace any components in a timely fashion to minimize any potential downtime due to failure of equipment.
9. Best Effort Support
While Affordable IPTV is responsible for managing the
Server, any applications that are on a Server or an Account are the client’s
responsibility for installing, managing, maintaining and updating.
If a Client is experiencing difficulties and Server
Management is supported, Affordable IPTV may be able to provide assistance, or
guidance. They will investigate to ensure that the issue is not anything
related to compatibility of the application with the server. Depending on the
service that the Client has, some applications may not be supported or possible
to be supported on the plan purchased and alternative plans may be suggested.
If a request is made to provide support for third party
software, or applications that goes beyond the role of server management, this
would be considered Best Effort Support. Affordable IPTV will advise and
provide no warranty to the compatibility to the software operating optimally,
or at all, and that any application support will not be warrantied to remedy or
correct the issue at hand. The Client will assume any risks associated with any
support that is provided under Best Effort.
10. Out of Scope Support
Support that is defined as “outside of scope” of this SLA
can be charge additional fees. If there will be fees for the Client’s request,
they will be advised prior to the support commencing and will wait for your
confirmation before starting.
The hourly billing rate will be billed for the first hour
and each quarter hour subsequent to the first hour.
11. Client Responsibility
The Client is responsible for managing the content on their
Service and ensuring that it complies with all agreements mentioned at the
beginning of the SLA.
Additionally, the Client will ensure that any and all
applications are managed and updated when they are made available. All
passwords for the account, service, applications, email accounts, etc will be
kept securely and complex enough to not be easily compromised and regular
updates are made to these passwords as per best security protocols.
If an account was to become compromised the Client will
diligently work to ensure that the account is properly secured again.
The Client will as well ensure that Affordable IPTV has
proper records of any passwords necessary to conduct their work, failure to
provide such passwords to them can result in them being unable to complete
their tasks.
The Client as well will maintain proper contact records for
their account, so that Affordable IPTV is aware of whom is able to be
contacting them for support. Only clients listed on the Client Account will be
provided with support.
Backups of their critical data and strongly encouraged to be performed at regular intervals.