Service Level Agreements (SLAs) define the specific levels of service a service provider commits to deliver to its customers, clients, or users. The primary purposes of an SLA include establishing measurable performance metrics, managing client or user expectations, assuring service quality, defining responsibilities, and providing a framework for issue resolution.
This Service Level Agreement describes Chattyhiring’s commitment to support.
All capitalized terms not otherwise defined in this SLA are as stated in the Service Agreement. For this SLA, these definitions shall apply:
“Outage” means a full outage or severe issue that is a catastrophic problem causing complete inability to use the Services and where there is no current workaround or solution to the problem.
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“Error” means an Outage or any other incorrect functioning of the Services resulting in the failure of the Services to operate in full compliance with the functionalities in the Service Agreement or any documentation from ChattyHiring.
“Excluded” means that period during which the Services are unavailable or inoperable due to: (i) a Force Majeure Event or circumstances beyond ChattyHiring’s reasonable control; (ii) Client’s combination of the Services with any product, service or software not supplied by ChattyHiring or not identified by ChattyHiring in writing as compatible with the Services; (iii) issues in a user’s environment, network, power supply, or infrastructure; (iv) telecommunications or internet service provider failures, loss of availability due to a network attack, or issues caused by DNS resolution and/or domain name or certificate end; (v) regularly scheduled or emergency maintenance; or (vi) improper use or alteration of the Services.
“Response time” means the period between the time when the Error was reported in full, and the time when an initial acknowledgement was communicated by any of our staff.
ChattyHiring’s support channels are available Monday through Friday 9AM - 5PM [GMT].
Errors should be reported by users to ChattyHiring through the support channels listed above. We will define the severity classification of the reported Error and will respond to the Error according to the Response Time in the table below:
| Severity | Description | Response time | Resolution time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical | Service Outage. Compromise of data / immediate data risk. | Within 1 hour | 6 hours |
| High | Major core functionality(candidate interviewing) is affected, or Service functionality is significantly degraded, persistent and affects many users. Data integrity may be at risk. | Within 3 hours | 48 hours |
| Medium | Service performance issue or a material bug affecting some users or some functionalities. Reasonable workaround is available. | Within 24 hours | 4 business days |
| Low | Bug or other technical issue affecting some users. Reasonable workaround is available. | Within 72 hours | 7 business days |