Support Services will meet the standards set forth in this Service Level Agreement (“SLA”). All support services described herein are provided if and as stated in the applicable Quote. Subject to reasonable availability of Customer’s representatives to provide information and cooperation, Zenwork will provide the following Support Services.

1. SERVICE UPTIME/AVAILABILITY

The Services will be available to Customer at least 99.99% of the time calculated on a contract monthly basis, excluding Scheduled Downtime.

“Scheduled Downtime” means the downtime required by Zenwork for upgrading or maintaining the Services, provided that such scheduled downtime shall occur in non-peak times and/or on weekends (in the time zone where Zenwork’s headquarters is located) and a manner designed to minimize service interruption. Scheduled Downtime shall not exceed three (3) hours per calendar month.

Recurring Scheduled Downtime windows may be published by Zenwork from time to time, including in the API documentation.

Zenwork will provide written notice, including by means of a popup notification on Zenwork’s websites, at least three (3) days’ prior notice of any Scheduled Downtime which falls outside of the Recurring Scheduled Downtime.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, in no event will any amount of time a Service is not accessible or otherwise functional as a result of any of the following be included in the determination of the Service Uptime:

Customer error or negligence, including, but not limited to, the following situations: Customer has entered the Username or Password incorrectly or Customer is using or accessing the Services not in accordance with the then-current and applicable manual, guide or other documentation;
any Scheduled Downtime, inclusive of the underlying Zenwork Service infrastructure
any event outside of Zenwork’s control, including, but not limited to, power outages, utility failures or scheduled downtime by any applicable Zenwork’s data-center hosting subcontractor, or source websites such as IRS and State SOS
any failure of Customer’s software (other than the Software licensed to Customer by Zenwork), hardware, or Internet service provider, telecommunications carrier or other service provider that provides Customer’s services necessary to establish Customer’s connection or access

2. TECHNICAL SUPPORT

Zenwork shall maintain a technical team that is composed of a sufficient number of technical support representatives to address support call and email volume and to resolve all issues as required by this SLA. Technical support shall be accessible by email between the hours of 7:30 AM and 7:30 PM, CST Time on all business days except US federal holidays (“Normal Support Hours”).

Contact information for technical support is as follows:

E-Mail: support@tax1099.com or apisupport@zenwork.com

Zenwork may change any of the foregoing contact information from time to time by giving reasonable written notice to Customer, so long as at least one number or address is at all times available for each means of contact.

3. ISSUE RESPONSE:

Zenwork will respond to the requests for Support Services within a commercially reasonable time.

4. UPDATES AND UPGRADES

Zenwork will update the Software and make available to Customer any and all patches, enhancements, updates, upgrades and new versions of the Software that Zenwork makes generally commercially available (“Updates”). Any such Updates will be deemed part of the Software as that term is used herein and will be covered by the maintenance and support services.