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Terms and Conditions of Work

These terms and conditions are subject to change from time to time. Please bookmark this page for future reference.

Service Level Agreement (SLA’s)

  1. Our Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) services do not include any guaranteed response times or Service Level Agreement (SLA’s). If your business needs the assurance of guaranteed response times please contact us about our Managed IT Service plans.

Your Data

  1. It is entirely your responsibility to ensure that you have backed up all your data and that, in the event of a system failure, you are able to restore your backup to your own satisfaction.
  2. If you are unsure if you have a backup you must request that we backup and restore your data for you; The time required to do this is charged in accordance with our standard labour rates and is in addition to any estimated time we may have given you already. We cannot accept any responsibility for data loss due to system failure and lack of suitable backups.

Work Requested

  1. We will attempt to resolve the issue which you have specifically asked us to resolve. We will not look for secondary or subsequent issues. If, on occasion, we identify an issue other than the one reported we will notify you and, subject to your acceptance, charge a further labour charge for repairing the additional issue(s).
  2. Due to the complex nature of technology, we cannot always guarantee to resolve all issues. We can only do our level best to identify the cause and propose a resolution using our fully qualified & experienced staff.

Termination

  1. If you choose not to continue with the work once we have begun this job you will be charged for the time spent so far in 30 minute intervals, plus the cost of any parts or consumables that may have been deemed necessary to assist us thus far.

Access

  1. If this job involves visiting your premises, we require the person reporting the issue to us to be on-site to allow us access to your premises and equipment as well as demonstrate the issue to us on our arrival. More importantly – you must supervise our visit at all times.
  2. If we arrive at your premises and you are not available, not in or do not grant us access we will charge a ‘missed visit’ charge of £80 + vat. Your job will be closed, you will be invoiced for our missed appointment and you will need to rebook our team for an alternative visit at an additional charge.
  3. Visit cancellations must be notified to us 24 hours prior to your agreed visit date and time. Any cancellations after this time will incur a cancellation charge of £80 + vat.

Testing

  1. Once we have completed our work we will ask you to test your equipment to your satisfaction. This requires you to test as if it’s a new day. Please allow enough time for you to check your equipment and ensure that you are happy with our work.

Warranty

  1. All parts we supply are warranted by the manufacturers for a period of 12 months unless indicated otherwise. Any faulty parts must be reported to the manufacturer directly within 12 months of invoice date. If you require us to deal with the warranty on your behalf we will charge for our time in doing so.
  2. Our labour fees are charged on a time and fees basis. This means we charge for the time spent working on your issue. Where we are required to continue investigating a previous issue or conduct additional work our charges will be a continuation of the initial works and not considered a fixed price or covered under any warranty or guarantee of the first attempt.

Payment

  1. Our current hourly rates are set out below. By using our service you accept and agree to these rates.

    Standard Service: £80 + vat
    Urgent Queue Jump: £100 + vat
    Out of Hours: £140 + vat
  2. All customers are required to settle invoices by direct debit. For one-off transactions or for customers who don’t hold a credit account we may, at our discretion, accept payment in the form of Credit/Debit Card in advance of supplying our goods and/or services.
  3. Any issues with invoices we send you must be notified to us within 7 days of the date of the invoice. After this time invoices cannot be disputed for any reason.