1. Application and Relationship to Other Agreements
This SLA supplements the Aspect Terms of Service and your applicable Order Form, or the separate subscription agreement that governs your use of the Services (together, the "Agreement"). Defined terms used here have the meanings assigned in the Agreement unless this SLA provides a different definition. The availability commitment applies to the following functions included in your paid Enterprise subscription (the "Covered Functions"):- File access
- File uploads and downloads
- Mount access through the Aspect desktop application
- Previews and proxy playback
2. Monthly Availability Commitment
Aspect will take commercially reasonable steps to maintain 99.95% availability of the Covered Functions in each calendar month, after the exclusions described below. This percentage is the "Availability Commitment." For purposes of this SLA:- Scheduled Downtime is the actual period of unavailability for planned maintenance that qualifies under Section 3.
- Excused Downtime is the actual period of unavailability attributable to an exclusion in Section 4.
- Unscheduled Downtime is the remaining time when one or more of the Covered Functions are unavailable for your use.
- Eligible Minutes are the minutes in the calendar month during which this SLA applies to your subscription, less Scheduled Downtime and Excused Downtime.
3. Planned Maintenance
We may schedule periods of unavailability to maintain the Services, perform backups, or install updates. We will make reasonable efforts to give you at least seven days of advance notice of this work. Scheduled Downtime will be arranged in advance for off-peak periods measured in U.S. Eastern Time and will total no more than eight hours in a calendar month. If a planned interruption is expected to last longer than two hours, we will also notify you by email. Only the time when one or more Covered Functions are actually unavailable is counted as Scheduled Downtime. Maintenance time beyond the eight-hour monthly allowance is included in Unscheduled Downtime unless it independently qualifies as Excused Downtime. An interruption does not become Scheduled Downtime merely because maintenance is performed while it is occurring. Aspect will use its daily system logs to record maintenance interruptions and other periods of unavailability.4. Excluded Interruptions
An interruption is Excused Downtime to the extent it results from any of the following:- A failure of a third-party vendor's service or infrastructure
- Disruption of the public Internet or another circumstance outside Aspect's reasonable control
- Your hardware or software, or hardware or software supplied by a third party
- An event covered by the Agreement's force majeure provisions
5. Service Credits
A "Service Credit" is an amount applied against future fees for the Services. It is calculated by multiplying the applicable percentage below by the fees payable for the Services under your Enterprise subscription for the month in which the interruption occurred ("Monthly Services Fees"). If you pay for a longer subscription period in advance, we use the portion of those fees attributable to the affected month, rather than the full prepaid amount.| Monthly Uptime Percentage | Credit as a percentage of Monthly Services Fees |
|---|---|
| 99.95% or higher | No credit |
| At least 99.00%, but below 99.95% | 10% |
| At least 95.00%, but below 99.00% | 25% |
| Below 95.00% | 50% |
6. Requesting a Credit
To request a Service Credit, send a written claim to support@aspect.inc no later than 30 days after the end of the calendar month for which the credit is sought. Include:- Your organization name and the affected workspace or account
- The date, start time, end time, and time zone of each interruption
- A description of the Covered Functions that were unavailable
- Log files documenting the interruption and when it occurred












