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Sunrise Gateway Customer SLA

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Sunrise Gateway Customer SLA

DEFINITIONS

SUPPLIER

In this contract, Supplier is Sunrise Gateway Ltd. led by Chabdar Georgiev

CUSTOMER

Customer is every person, organization or company, using SaaS services described below. In this particular copy of the document, this is (write manually by hand)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (freetype name and address of the organisation)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (freetype name and role of the representative to sign as customer)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (freetype other details phone, e-mail, etc…)

THIRD PARTY VENDORS

  1. Hosting providers Superhosting Digital Ocean Amazon Web Services

  2. Secure Web Certificate Providers Comodo R3

  3. Domain name providers Superhosting NamesForever

  4. Related services DNS Backup Secure SSL VM Hosting ISP of both CUSTOMER and SUPPLIER

WHAT IS A SERVICE-LEVEL AGREEMENT?

A service-level agreement (SLA) is a contract between a provider and the end user that states the level of service that the customer should expect from that service provider. That said, they also serve a company’s internal operations as well. They’re frequently used when a company is signing up new customers for a service.

In the event that the service-level agreement is between the marketing and sales departments, the SLA will detail the company’s sales and marketing goals, such as the number of leads it intends to generate monthly and the action that the sales department will take to support the marketing department’s efforts.

WHY SERVICE-LEVEL AGREEMENTS ARE IMPORTANT?

A service-level agreement is important because:

CUSTOMER SERVICE-LEVEL AGREEMENT

This type of SLA is between a business and a customer. It’s also referred to as an external service agreement. It includes:

SERVICE SPECIFICATIONS (Specifications of the service the customer will receive)

In regards of this agreement, the SUPPLIER supports the CUSTOMER to have a working and updated organizational web page. The CUSTOMER requests content updates and provides text, pictures or any acceptable format data. This updates can be provide by email, manually by USB flash or similar. SUPPLIER preparing article and upload it to the visible part of the web.

The agreement is a service as followed:

SERVICE AVAILABILITY CONDITIONS

Conditions of the service availability

I. TYPES OF INCIDENTS

Service could not be available because of several reasons, each described below.

{DOAWS} * Disaster in datacenters, caused by unpredicted incident in cloud providers (DO, AWS)

{SSL} * Inability to open page because of SSL provider maintenance or incident. NOTE: This is not predictable no matter what is the Service Level.

{SUPP} * Page not available because problems in CMS or maintenance on web servers or any related servers (SUPPLIER)

Appart of the above Service should be even considered as partially unavailable in case the requested by the CUSTOMER update is not visible into the webpage

{UPDATE} * Update is not done (SUPPLIER)

In any of those cases the agreement (standards, who is responsible and what are next steps, etc..) are described in next chapters

II. INCIDENTS SEVERITY

Depending of urgency and importance incidents are qualified as P1 to P4 (see TABLE1, Appendix [1]).

Full descrition of incidents, customer type and timing acceptance are in TABLE1, Appendix [1].

STANDARDS

Standards for the time windows of each service level (see TABLE1, Appendix [1])

Clients are different types depending of type of the support they receive and the timings of reaction in case of incidents. Also time to finish requests for webpage update by new arcticle strongly depends of this type.

All incidents described below. Timings are normally staring by the registering phone call from the CUSTOMER. E-mails are not applicable to high-priority incidents. E-mails are OK for any non-P1 incidents. Then timing commencing 24 hours after email is received

RESPONSIBILITIES

Responsibilities of each of the parties

SUPPLIER

I. SUPPLIER SHOULD REACT PROPERLY ON INCIDENTS

  1. {DOAWS} incidents In this case SUPPLIER should keep the CUSTOMER informed by email. Only exception is if the customer plan is VIP (VIP client - 4HRS to start migration, 24 HRS to get site on a safe instance).

  2. {SSL} incidents Agreement to the Customer is only to inform. SSL certificates are different and very dependable by the customer plan VIP only - the webpage could be started on common HTTP port to avoid silly browser questions and keep service available. If the outage will be more than 4 hours. Time to react: 4 hrs. Time of implementation - 12 hours (all timings starting by the client’s call)

  3. {SUPP} incidents In this type we can qualify any Page not available because problems in CMS or maintenance on web servers or any related servers Maintenance should be defined by downtime and the client should be informed 3 days in advance by e-maill. VIP Clients - no downtimes are acceptable for their services, in case of any occurrence the client should be compensated

  4. {UPDATE} Incidents Inthese incidents, Update is not done by the SUPPLIER in 4 Days (four working days) VIP clients - 1 hour or 4 hours to publish any requested article or one day for a page (timings are 24/7 for VIP)

II. SERVICE REQUESTS Common customers (Non-VIP clients) - 4 working days (up to 2 separate articles) VIP Clients - up to 4 hours for any single article. For example, if the customer requested two separate articles, he should prioritize which one to be published up to four hours, the second one will take place in after four hours, etc…

III. MID-YEAR REVIEW This can be a meeting or email thread where the client should receive a list with incidents and service requests. The service provider need to get email response that the customer is acknowledged and this report is accepted

CUSTOMER

I. SERVICE REQUESTS FORMAT

  1. Customers should provide pictures, videos and text for any requested new article
  2. Customer should provide all texts unformatted, most preferrably in TXT or DOCX
  3. It’s a customer’s responsibility to provide enough information in unformatted clean format for each picture and/or video
  4. None of grammar or punctuality errors will be editted by the SUPPLIER, it’s fully up to the client to do that
  5. Pictures should be in original format, w/o non-professional edits
  6. In case of questions from the SUPPLIER, the customer have to respond until all questions are dealt. Timings started after last confirmation from SUPPLIER

II. INCIDENT CALL

VIP Clients - Email AND Call for P1

Common clients and all under P1 incidents - Email

ESCALATION PROCEDURES

This chapter explains step-by-step Escalation procedures. In fact, there are two ways to call in case of incident or request. Preferable is to email, but on P1 incidents or urgent requests to use phone (to measure urgency standards, see TABLE1, Appendix [1]).

CANCELLATION TERMS

The working contract might be terminated by (1). Declaration on mid-year review; (2). After this announcement, the contract ends in the end of the current financial year

MID-YEAR REVIEW

See above the supplier responsibility’s details

CONTRACT CANCELLATION

The contract covering this services can be considered as an one-year-agreement on first sign. After that, it is auto-renewal. But if one of the sides want to terminate the contract, it can be done at the end of the current year. Note that, the contract can be terminated only if it’s declared on last mid - year review with the Supplier

APPENDIX:

  1. SLA terms and conditions, TABLE1 XLSX, Download only link
  2. Contract in well readable portable data format, Bulgarian (BG) Printable (PDF)
    2.1. Read)
    2.2. Download
  3. The contract, printable (BG) Download-only, MS-Word variant (DOC)
  4. Printable (TXT) variant of this document - N/A, ask
  5. Web page of this project: SLA in different formats and languages (IN PROGRESS, UNDER CONSTRUCTION)