Unless otherwise expressly agreed Tillmax, support services will be provided during normal UK business hours of 9.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. Monday to Friday, and 10.00am -1.00pm on Saturday. Customers have taken the extended support will have the access 24/7.
TILLMAX warrants that it shall use all reasonable endeavours to carry out the Support Services described herein in a professional manner and shall at all times use reasonable endeavours to maintain the items supported in good working order. The periodic updates provided under support for the Software may include legislative updates the scope of which can vary considerably. Where major legislative changes take place, it is expressly provided that TILLMAX reserves the right to make an additional charge which shall be spread evenly over all its customers for the Software in order to cover the updates dealing with such legislative changes. Such updates are deemed to be outside of the Support Fee cost.
Supported software: TILLMAX will use all reasonable endeavours to respond to any request by the Customer within eight working hours of receiving notification of such need from the Customer... Error correction is provided on a reasonable effort basis, and TILLMAX cannot guarantee to correct any error within any given timescale. The Customer shall endeavour to provide written notification and appropriate examples supporting any error found. Major errors that are found in software supported hereunder then TILLMAXwill supply any correction of same by in return on preffered contactable method of customer .As part of the support service TILLMAXshall provide updates and releases from time to time to the software supported during the term of this Agreement. It is the Customer's responsibility to install corrections, updates and releases to the software and for ensuring that their staffs have the capability of doing so. TILLMAX shall have the right to make additional charges for services, which are required due to the Customer failing to install such items correctly. Where TILLMAX have to carry out site visits for support, it reserves the right to charge over and above the annual Support Fee. TILLMAX reserve the right not to deal with or to make additional charges for, reported errors in such software which:
are the result of failure of equipment or other software not covered by this Agreement;
Faults in mains electrical supplies or operator error;
Are, or could be reasonably construed as, a lack of knowledge of the software;
Are caused by air conditioning, humidity or other environmental conditions;
are caused by the accident, neglect, misuse or default of the Customer or any third party;
Are due to acts of God, war, acts of Violence or any similar occurrence;
Result from any attempt by any person, other TILLMAX, to modify or maintain the software otherwise than in the case of only trained Customer staff carrying out normal System functions;
are caused by cable or connector malfunctions.
Supported equipment. Support is provided during the hours set out in 12.1 and on the items listed in the Schedule. On receipt of a telephone request for support for an item, TILLMAXwill log the call and endeavour to identify the problem as either an engineering problem or a software problem or a system operating software problem. TILLMAX will, if, appropriate to the problem reported, dispatch an engineer to the Site concerned. TILLMAX will use all reasonable endeavours to ensure that TILLMAX engineer will respond within 8 hours on the POS, all other equipment will be dealt with on a swap out basis on the next day following receipt of defective goods subject to manufacturer warranty in place. Where the problem encountered relates to the POS and if the terms of this Agreement provide that temporary replacement equipment will be provided to the Customer the engineer will endeavour to load the hard disc of the POS, if unaffected, onto a loaned POS and thus leave the Customer with a working system, but the Customer must appreciate that such may not always be possible. If, on attendance at Site, the engineer believes the Support Fee does not cover the fault, the customer will be advised, and in such event, any corrective activity, spare parts and the cost of the visit itself, shall be charged. The service provided assumes normal use of the equipment and relates to normal wear and tear. TILLMAX reserve the right to make additional charges at its standard rates for the time being in force where its engineers are called out because of faults which:
are the result of accident, unauthorized transportation, alteration, neglect or misuse;
is the result of failure of the Customer to provide and maintain a suitable operating environment as recommended by TILLMAX and/or the manufacturer.TILLMAX shall not be liable for any item, which fails due to manufacturers design or inherent defects.
nor shall TILLMAX be liable to perform any work, which is in the opinion of TILLMAX impractical to perform owing non-standard use or location.
TILLMAX shall provide all necessary tools and test equipment, which in the opinion of TILLMAX'engineer is required to ensure the operational efficiency of the equipment.
The Customer shall be responsible for all operating materials and of all consumables, including but not limited to print heads, laser cartridges, ribbons, toners, infuser and developer kits all of which are outside the scope of the Support Fee.
TILLMAXreserves the right to make additional charges to the Customer to cover all of the cost repairing equipment more than five years of age, in case of touch screens, after three years and one year on report printers.
providing new or updated versions of operating system, databases or software utilities, for whatever reason