Technical Support Policy

Purpose

The purpose of this Technical Support Policy (“Policy”) is to outline the scope and limitations of the software technical support services provided by Syncro Soft.

Statement

This worldwide Policy describes the software technical support services we offer to customers that have paid all applicable support fees and that are using Licensed Software. This Policy applies to the Syncro Soft software.

Definitions

a) “We,” “we”, “our”, or “Syncro Soft” means Syncro Soft SRL or its wholly own subsidiaries.

b) “You,” “you”, or “your” means you as the customer, the company, or the legal entity that has obtained the software product to which the Technical Support services apply.

Scope

Syncro Soft will deliver technical support services for your software product in accordance with the terms of this Policy, including the section captioned “Technical Support Limitations” below. You are only eligible to receive Technical Support if you remain current on all applicable licensing and maintenance fees due and payable to Syncro Soft and are otherwise compliant with your applicable contractual obligations to Syncro Soft. Technical support will be performed in a timely and professional manner by qualified support engineers familiar with the Syncro Soft software.

Note that the provisions and definitions of your custom Support Agreement (if one exists) supersede any conflicting terms in this Policy.

Methods of Contact and Support Hours

Normal operation hours for Technical Support are posted at https://www.oxygenxml.com/contact.html. All eligible license holders may submit technical support requests online, by:

• sending an email to , or
• creating a support ticket on our Support Portal (https://www.oxygenxml.com/techSupport.html)

Note:

• To gain knowledge and ask questions about the Syncro Soft products, a user-to-user support community is available as User Forum or User Mailing list.

Important:

• Technical support is provided remotely and does not include on-site assistance. Our primary support language is English.

Problem Response Time

All problems reported to Technical Support are initially handled by a Technical Support consultant who works with you to identify and (in many cases) solve your reported problem. If the problem is not resolved during the primary correspondence, the consultant may perform additional research or log it in the Syncro Soft bug tracking system to pass it on to a specialist who will follow-up with you.

The following table displays the various priority levels, conditions, and targets for "Response/Acknowledgement Time" that is defined as the time between when the problem is initially reported and when a Technical Support consultant contacts you.

Note:

• The above response-time goals are targets only and Syncro Soft shall not be considered to be in breach of any of its obligations if it cannot fulfil the request within the specified time.
• These target response times are within "Support Hours", do not include weekend or other non-business days, and assume that an 8 hour working day counts as 1 day. However, in practice, 80% of all support queries are handled within a few hours. Unlike many big companies, we do not send any automated responses that are usually unhelpful. Each support request is carefully read by our Technical Support staff and often discussed with the programmers to give you the most comprehensive response possible.
• Technical support will not be available on holidays for the corporate headquarters of Syncro Soft.
• The severity classification will be assigned by Syncro Soft, in Syncro Soft’s sole discretion and is dependent upon conditions listed under the "Technical Support Limitations" section and "Your compliance" section of this document.

Important:

• If you are not covered by a Support and Maintenance Pack, we cannot make any commitments, but we will answer every support request.
• Trial Customers: We make our best effort to provide equivalent response times to customers with a valid trial license during the official evaluation period. During the trial period, our technical support is dedicated to assisting users in evaluating the performance of our software. We offer support for installation, setup, compatibility, software functionality, configuration, and bug resolution specifically related to the trial experience. Please note that support does not extend to issues arising from commercial or production use-cases, as the trial period is intended solely for evaluating the software's capabilities.
• Donations and Not-for-Resale licensed products: Depending on staff availability, we attempt to provide support for customers who use our donation or NFR product licenses. However, we do not currently provide response goals or response guarantees for these kind of licenses.

Resolving Problems

Syncro Soft will use reasonable efforts to manage and address your problem based on its Priority Level, its complexity, and the support package that was purchased. Due to the complex nature of software development and operating environments, Syncro Soft cannot guarantee the time that it will take to resolve a problem. In addition, our response times may be affected if a customer fails to provide requested information (see "Your compliance" section). We make our best effort to resolve problems as expeditiously as possible as long as you provide us with timely responses and any information we may reasonably need to address your problem.

Problem Resolution

Syncro will aim to resolve your problem by any of the following:

• Providing assistance with the operation of the software product by email or over the web;
• Developing a workaround or working best practices in order to avoid a particular problem;
• Enabling customers to develop their own workaround based upon the advice provided;
• Logging enhancement requests for products.

The problem will be considered closed when:

• Assistance, advice, or a workaround has been provided that should enable the user to the complete their work using the facilities of the product;
• A response from the customer is not received despite repeated efforts to make contact, typically after five (5) days with no response.
• If it is determined that the problem or product is not covered by the Technical Support in this policy.

Please also note that:

• In the event the customer believes that a problem has been prematurely marked as solved, it may be re-opened by the customer with clarification within five (5) days of closure. Once a problem is marked as solved, if no update is received within five (5) days, the ticket will be permanently marked as closed and it can no longer be reopened. If the problem recurs, a new ticket must be created.
• Customers may be asked to monitor the circumstances that caused the problem if it cannot be reproduced.

Escalation Procedure

If you are not satisfied with the response or resolution provided to you by the Technical Support staff, use the following escalation path to have your concerns addressed:

• First contact the Technical Support staff who are working on your problem and request that the priority of the problem is escalated.
• You may request to speak with a Technical Support Manager if additional escalation is required. Provide details about the situation, including the date and time of the occurrence, by email to .
• If, after using one of these escalation paths, you would like to request additional support or provide direct feedback to the Syncro Soft Executive team, email . Your email will be sent to the Senior Management within Syncro Soft.

If you have general feedback regarding your technical support experience, email .

Privacy Note and Data Protection

Syncro Soft may require you to supply certain personal information (contact names, business telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses) about yourself or your company in order to receive technical support services. From time to time we may use your personal information or other information you provide to us during the delivery of technical support services to enable us to recommend other Syncro Soft webinars, services, or products that might be useful to you, but we will provide you with the opportunity to opt-out from such communications.

Syncro Soft will safeguard data you send to our technical support team in the same manner in which we protect our own similar confidential information. However, Syncro Soft cannot guarantee that your data will be handled in compliance with all regulatory standards applicable to such data. Accordingly, please do not send to the Technical Support staff any data subject to government or confidential regulations that prescribe special handling requirements. If your data file contains such regulated or confidential information, please contact us before sending it so we may discuss masking, obfuscation, or other possible methods to convert your data set to a format that Syncro Soft can manage.

Rights Regarding Feedback

Syncro Soft reserves all rights in all suggestions, input, feedback, and other information relating to Syncro Soft and its software products or services that you provide to us while we are providing Technical Support services to you. Syncro Soft may use all such information or feedback for any business purposes whatsoever.

Your Responsibility

In order to receive Syncro Soft Technical Support, you must maintain a supported environment and you agree to keep your installation of software product up to date by regularly updating to the latest minor release version available. If your product is not running the latest minor release, you will be required to update before technical support will be provided.

Any information you can provide regarding the issue you are experiencing could have a significant impact on how fast the issue is diagnosed and resolved. You understand and acknowledge that in order for Syncro Soft to provide Technical Support services, you must provide the following information:

• License details (organization name, license type)
• Product name and version
• Contact information, including email addresses and telephone numbers, for technical personnel who are familiar with the problem or incident and your environment
• Operating system and version
• A short description of the problem including the exact text of error messages and steps to reproduce the issue (when applicable)

When submitting a problem to Syncro Soft Technical Support, you adhere to the following guidelines:

• Familiarity with the software. Please ensure you possess a reasonable understanding of our software products.
• Clear problem description. It is important to have a foundational comprehension of the issue you are encountering and the ability to provide a detailed description of the problem.

Before logging a problem with Syncro Soft Technical Support, we recommend following the steps below:

• Confirm issue origin. Verify that the problem originates from Syncro Soft's software and not from a third-party application.
• Use supported software version. Ensure that your system is running a currently supported version of Syncro Soft's software.
• Reproduce the issue. Attempt to replicate the problem and determine if it occurs consistently.
• Simplify the environment. Simplify the complexity of your system or project to isolate the root cause of the issue.
• Check local/company-wide impact. Identify if the problem occurs on a local machine or if it affects multiple machines within the company.
• Consult Oxygen XML Documentation. Search through the Oxygen XML Documentation for relevant information related to the issue.

A support ticket will be created based on information supplied, and a ticket number will be assigned at the time of creation to be used for tracking and communication purposes. This ticket number must be referenced for all future feedback and communication.

For Critical priority incidents, Syncro Soft may require that your technical contact be continuously available while the incident is at a Critical priority status to offer further documentation and resolution testing, in order for Syncro Soft to continue progress on addressing the incident.

Note:

• Syncro Soft reserves the right to review the problem tickets submitted and may suggest specific training opportunities to prevent similar technical support requests that could be avoided with appropriate training.

Technical Support Limitations

Syncro Soft provides Technical Support services to address issues where your software product does not substantially conform to its documentation, where such software product is used in accordance with its documentation. Technical Support may be denied for reasons including, but not limited to, the following:

1. Use of the product in a manner other than as authorized in the applicable license agreement. Before submitting the support request you must have a valid product license and you must be eligible for Technical Support services.
2. Any version of the product for which Technical Support Services have been discontinued by Syncro. Problems must be demonstrable in the currently supported versions of the product (see End Of Life Policy) and you are encouraged to run the latest minor release version of the product available.
3. Product that is used on or in conjunction with hardware or software other than as specified in the corresponding documentation. Examples: unsupported tools (i.e., Java Runtime Environment (JRE)), APIs, interfaces, unsupported web browsers or versions of web browsers or data formats other than those supported as set forth in the product documentation.
4. Problems directly related to documents, files, stylesheets, schemas, etc., that you have authored or created via your utilization of the product or related to any output generated by products such as Web Help and associated build scripts, as well as generated XML, XML Schemas, and documentation.
5. Support and/or troubleshooting assistance for any third-party add-ons, plug-ins, frameworks, or templates used within the products that were not purchased directly from Syncro. If you discover a bug, or an inconsistent behavior with our product and it is integrated with third-party add-ons or plug-ins, we ask that you start by disabling all other third-party additions and revert to the default configuration for your current version of product.
6. Product that has been integrated into another third-party application or that is modified by the customer or a third-party hired by the customer, or downloaded from a third-party source. Please ask for assistance from the corresponding third-party provider.
7. Assistance with any custom features. If the desired feature is not currently available in the product, Syncro is happy to receive feedback and feature requests. However, Syncro will not be held to any deadline, and we will not be obligated to provide the customer with support for any feature that is not already part of the purchased product.
8. Assistance with customization of the product using its corresponding SDK will be limited to providing advice for specific problems, workarounds for known limitations (where available), or code samples. If a bug in the product SDK is believed to be the root cause, sample code that demonstrates and replicates the problem must be provided.
9. Beta releases, or other products provided by Syncro at no charge (other than add-ons or connectors as identified by Syncro).
10. Uncooperative, unprofessional, or abusive conduct by the customer. Syncro may limit or terminate the Technical Support services being provided if you use the services in an abusive manner, as determined by Syncro in its reasonable discretion. Examples of such use include a high number of calls/contact that concern previously resolved issues or issues which Syncro provided corrections not implemented by the customer, data requested from you but not provided, repeated posing of questions to which the answer is readily found in the documentation, and discussion of issues that are not related to technical support.
11. Third-party software sub-components incorporated in the Software and covered by the terms of the third-party and open-source license agreements (see section 9.1).
12. Generic consultation, assistance, or advice.
13. Training activities.
14. Support in languages other than English.

Please also note that:

• Syncro will respond to all support incidents. However, Syncro, at its sole discretion, will only spend a limited amount of time on any incident that is outside the scope of the Technical Support Policy.
• If an incident is found to be outside the scope of the policy, as one of the possible alternatives, you may be asked to engage with the Consulting Services, at the then current standard consultancy rate.

In addition, we are not responsible for the delay or inability to provide Technical Support services due to delays you cause or are caused by network, system, or telephone line problems, or any events outside Syncro Soft's reasonable control.

Third-Party Software

Syncro Soft will not provide Technical Support for third-party software that is included with the software product. However, Syncro Soft will assist you with problem analysis to determine whether the issue is caused by a third-party software. If it is possible to identify the cause of the problem, we may contact the third-party vendor for an issue resolution or we may ask you to open a support case with the third-party vendor support organization.

Supported Software Product Versions

Syncro Soft provides different levels of Technical Support under your Support and Maintenance Pack, depending on where your product license version is in its product life cycle. For more information on our product life cycles and related Technical Support services available during those life cycles, please refer to our End of Life Policy, posted at https://www.oxygenxml.com/eol.html.

Updates to our Technical Support Policy

This Technical Support Policy may be updated at any time and without notice. We reserve the right to amend this Policy periodically and will post updates at https://www.oxygenxml.com/technical_support_policy.html.

Please contact us if you have any questions about our Technical Support policy and we will be happy to help.