Turbot Guardrails Service Level Agreement

This Service Level Agreement along with the Service Description provide additional details together with the Turbot Master Subscription Agreement ("Terms") which are governed and are incorporated into each Order entered into by Turbot HQ, Inc ("Turbot," "we," "our" or "us") and customers (each a "Customer," "you" or "your") for Turbot Software, Subscription, Support, or consulting Service(s) (collectively the "Service").

Support Terms

1. Technical Support

Turbot shall provide the following technical Support Services, in accordance with the severity levels set forth herein, and will work with Customer's named contact(s) ("Authorized Users") to understand the severity of the issue. Customer and its Authorized Users may contact Turbot's technical support via the support channels below:

2. Definitions

  • "Error" means a malfunction in the Turbot Service that can be duplicated by Turbot that materially degrades the use or performance of the Customer business system the Turbot Service manages ("Business System").
  • "Fix" means the repair or replacement of object code versions of the Turbot Service to remedy an Error.
  • "Best effort" refers to commercially reasonable efforts to provide, report and test fixes to Errors in the Covered Service that affect the efficiency or use of the Covered Service - provided that software program fixes will be provided for the current Release in production only.
  • "Response time" means the elapsed clock time between (i) the Software Service Request to report a problem and (ii) a Turbot confirming acknowledgement of the reported problem.
  • Critical response time: Critical response times are based on elapsed time ("Clock Hours"), calculated 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including holidays.
  • Non-critical response time: Non-critical response times are based on business hours ("Business Hours"), calculated within 8am-6pm US Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, excluding US Federal Holidays.
  • "Release" refers to software that has been compiled and published into packaged version updates. Releases for the Service are made to maintain the Service for the Customer with Fixes and new features. Releases for the Service are managed and maintained by Turbot for Turbot Support as part of Service Maintenance. Specifically for Turbot Guardrails Enterprise, Releases are also compiled and published into packaged version updates. Each major Release may be identified by a full integer change in the second decimal of the numbering sequence, transitioning for example, from "1.1" to "1.2." As necessary, our support team will issue error fixes, termed as "Minor Releases." These Minor Releases can be identified by a change in the third decimal of a release, transitioning for example, from "1.1.1" to "1.1.2." Turbot may also publish patch releases when required. Provided that the Customer's agreements and payment status are active, Turbot will make available these Releases of the Covered Service to the Customer at no additional cost.
  • "Named Contact", "Technical Contact", "Authorized User" means a Customer contact identified as the primary Turbot Administrator with rights to submit Turbot support incidents.
  • "Turbot Technical SME" means a Turbot Customer Success Engineer / Architect assigned to the Customer relationship to support the customer through meetings, direct contact outside of support channels, and directly working with the customer on related Support Services tasks to assist the customer's user experience with Turbot Guardrails.

3. Support Services Scope

  • Critical severity support:
    • 24x7 coverage for Critical errors.
    • Critical severity support is applicable for Premium and Premium+ support tier Customers.
    • Critical tickets can be submitted via email with "Critical!" at the start of the subject line for critical errors which our on-call support engineers can respond to within the response time SLAs.
    • Critical errors are when Customers experience the Turbot Guardrails Service to be:
      • Unavailable and completely unusable access to the service for over at least 30 minutes. Example, Turbot Guardrails is showing 500 errors for multiple users in the Customer's workspace.
      • Degraded performance over multiple hours, extremely slowed with no acceptable workaround solution.
      • Turbot Guardrails service is "down", unavailable, or completely unresponsive; and an incident is not reported on https://turbot.com/status.
      • Turbot Guardrails always shows 4xx or 5xx errors on every page, and other 3rd party websites are accessible.
      • All users in the workspace are unable to login to Turbot Guardrails.
  • Non-critical support:
    • Primary Business Hours Support Services are from 8am-6pm US Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, excluding US Federal Holidays.
    • For Premium and Premium+ support tier customers.
    • Non-critical tickets can be submitted via email or web form (no specific email subject required) for non-critical errors our global support team can respond to within the response time SLAs.
    • Non-critical errors are when Customers experience the Turbot Guardrails Service to be:
      • A single user is unable to login to Turbot Guardrails.
      • Turbot Guardrails console and dashboards are slower than usual.
      • A control is failing (in error state) on one or more workspaces.
      • One or more pages are not responding in the browser, but most pages load successfully.
      • One or more cloud accounts are in error state, but most are connected successfully.
  • Response time service levels:
    • Developer Support tier:
      • Best Effort support; commercially reasonable efforts to report and test fixes to Errors.
      • Any question or comment raised in the Community forum is based on Best Effort support.
    • Premium Support tier:
      • Critical: 4 Clock Hours
      • Non-critical: 12 Business Hours
    • Premium+ Support tier:
      • Critical: 1 Clock Hour
      • Non-critical: 8 Business Hours
      • Turbot Technical SME: up to 4 hours a month to directly support customer on support related tasks
  • Language: Turbot provides global support written and spoken in English
  • Locations: Turbot Support is a virtual team located globally across the United States, Canada, Brazil, United Kingdom, India, Australia, and New Zealand.

4. Turbot Service Maintenance

When Customer agreements and payment status are active, Turbot shall make available updates of Covered Service to Customer without further charge. Turbot will maintain the Service with Fixes to Errors as ongoing upkeep and improvement to the Service.

5. Customer Obligations

  • Designation of Named Contacts Customer shall designate an agreed upon number of concurrently active individuals in the location(s) to be agreed upon as "Named Contacts". Named Contacts are the only Customer personnel authorized to contact Turbot support personnel for Premium and Premium+ support tiers.
  • Customer Assistance Customer and its Named Contacts shall: (i) make reasonable efforts to resolve Customer issues or identify issues as relating to the Turbot Service prior to contacting Turbot for Support Services; and (ii) provide Turbot with sufficient information and resources to address the Error, and access to the personnel, hardware, and any additional software as reasonably necessary to enable Turbot to reproduce, analyze and address the Error; and (iii) if required, provide remote access or remote screensharing to the affected environment.
  • Mandatory fixes Customer must apply and implement any fixes designated by Turbot to be required for the Service to work, known as "Hot Fixes" or "Mandatory Fixes." Turbot shall not be responsible or liable for any commercial, legal, or financial impact, liabilities, or defects in the system due to Customer's failure to apply or implement such fixes.

6. Exclusions

Turbot is not obligated to provide Support Services when:

  • Turbot Service has been changed, modified or damaged by the Customer.
  • Issue is caused by Customer's negligence, misuse of software or hardware, hardware malfunction, or other causes beyond the Turbot Service.
  • Issue is caused by hardware, third-party software, or infrastructure not provided by Turbot.
  • Version of the Turbot Service in use is not currently a supported version.
  • Customer does not have an active agreement with Turbot, or their payment status is not current.
  • There is non-compliance with our recommended configurations, Acceptable Use Policy, and provided documentation.

In such cases, and at its discretion, Turbot will provide 'best effort' support, which may result in additional Time and Material service charges.

7. Changes

Turbot reserves the right to change or update this Service Level Agreement at any time. We will provide at least 30 days notice of any signficant changes. Notice may be given through various communication channels, including but not limited to, Turbot's website, direct communication, or other appropriate means. Changes will become effective and binding on the date specified in the notice. If you continue to use the support services after this date, it will constitute your acceptance of the changes.

8. Issue Priorities

When Customer reports through an Authorized User via Email or Website channels, a new incident to Turbot, Turbot and Customer, using reasonable judgment, shall label it according to one of the following severity levels and such incident shall be processed by Turbot according to its severity level and in the order that the incident was reported.

Note: Historically, for Turbot Guardrails Enterprise distribution, most critical outages have been ultimately traced to unannounced network, cloud provider, or identity provider errors and outages. For any submitted issue, it is always recommended to to ensure you evaluate your environment for these 3rd party impacts that may affect your Turbot Service prior to or in parallel with contacting Turbot Support.

9. Best Effort Support

Best Effort support is provided in the following circumstances:

  • If a customer chooses not to opt for paid Turbot Guardrails support services, they will be defaulted to the Developer Tier for Support, which operates on a Best Effort basis.
  • Any queries or issues submitted through the Community forum will receive Best Effort support, irrespective of the customer's paid support tier.

In the context of this SLA, "Best Effort" means that while Turbot will strive to address and resolve the issue, there are no guaranteed response times.

10. Support Plan Tiers Summary

  • Developer: includes our free, public community forum supported by Turbot and the community to respond to your product questions. Users in this tier can submit Account, Billing, and Access issues through email or the web form. Any other issues submitted with be covered by Best Effort.
  • Premium: including features from the Developer Support Plan, Premium Support is a paid plan providing access to response time service levels to submit private support cases directly to our Customer Success Engineers. The Premium Support tier offers Business Hours Coverage (10x5, 8AM-6PM ET) with Response Time SLAs of 12 Business Hours for non-critical issues, and 4 Clock Hours for critical issues under 24x7 coverage. 2 Named Contacts are allowed to submit cases.
  • Premium+: including features from the Developer and Premium Support Plans, the Premium+ Support Plan offers global hours coverage (24x7) with response time service levels of 8 Business Hours for non-critical issues, and 1 clock hour for critical issues. An allocated Turbot Technical Account Manager (TAM) works directly with up to 20 Customer Named Contacts on an included 4 hours of Architecture Support per month with annual virtual training and escalated priority support handling.
Support TierDeveloperPremiumPremium +
DocumentationYesYesYes
Community SupportYesYesYes
24x7 Support-YesYes
Service Levels-YesYes
First Response - Non-criticalBest Effort12 business hours8 business hours
First Response - Critical-4 clock hours1 clock hour
Support Contacts-2 Named Contacts20 Named Contacts
Architecture Support--up to 4 hours per month
Virtual Training--Annual