EKKLESIA.NG SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT
This Service Level Agreement ("SLA") describes service availability and support commitments applicable to eligible Ekklesia customers. Unless expressly stated otherwise in a customer's order, subscription or Master Service Agreement, the standard SLA does not apply to free or trial accounts.
1. Service Availability
For eligible Enterprise customers, Ekklesia targets:
Uptime refers to the availability of the core Ekklesia production platform.
Scheduled maintenance and excluded events are not counted toward downtime where applicable.
2. Scheduled Maintenance
Ekklesia may perform maintenance required to:
- Improve performance.
- Deploy security updates.
- Upgrade infrastructure.
- Fix defects.
- Perform database maintenance.
- Improve reliability.
Where reasonably possible, advance notice will be provided for planned maintenance likely to materially affect service availability.
3. Support Levels
Standard Support
Available to standard paid customers through the designated support channels.
Priority Support
Available to qualifying Growth or Enterprise customers.
Enterprise Support
Enterprise customers may receive:
- Priority technical support.
- Escalation management.
- Account management.
- Deployment assistance.
- Onboarding assistance.
- Architecture assistance where agreed.
- Incident communication.
4. Support Response Targets
Target initial response times:
| Severity | Example | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | Platform unavailable | 4 business hours |
| High | Major feature unavailable | 8 business hours |
| Medium | Significant functionality issue | 1 business day |
| Low | General request | 2 business days |
These are response targets, not guaranteed resolution times, unless specifically agreed in an Enterprise contract.
5. Exclusions
Downtime may be excluded where caused by:
- Customer configuration.
- Customer infrastructure.
- Internet service providers.
- Third-party providers.
- WhatsApp, Meta, SMS or email provider outages.
- Payment-provider outages.
- DNS problems outside Ekklesia's control.
- Cyberattacks despite reasonable safeguards.
- Force majeure.
- Scheduled maintenance.
- Unsupported software or integrations.
- Customer misuse.
6. Service Credits
Where an Enterprise contract expressly provides service credits, those credits will be calculated according to the specific agreement.
Unless otherwise agreed, service credits are the customer's exclusive remedy for failure to meet an uptime commitment.
7. No Absolute Guarantee
The SLA does not guarantee that:
- Every feature will always be available.
- Third-party services will always operate.
- Customer integrations will always function.
- Data will never be lost.
- Security incidents can never occur.
Ekklesia will use commercially reasonable measures to maintain service reliability and security.