Technical Support
You are welcome to contact us on our support desk and create a ticket for technical questions you may have regarding our products
Please remember that our support team is here to HELP you resolve your technical problem.
ALL our products have been TESTED and we expect them to WORK. When they don't work on YOUR server, most of the time it means that some settings is NOT right and need to be changed.
Please note that in order resolve the problem, our support desk need first to understand and identify the problem. So please take some time to describe your problem, the product you are using and your server's environment
Also, before creating a support ticket, please make sure you read the documentation, downloaded the latest version and installed it according to the specifications listed in the README file
Let us make support time a PLEASANT experience for both YOU -the client and US -the support team :-)
Our technical support is subject to the following terms and conditions.
Terms & conditions
1. We offer technical support on the following basis:
- Technical support is free.
- Technical support is valid for a period of 6 months as from the date of purchase.
- We assume NO responsibility whatsoever for changes made to clients' website during support intervention.
- Client should either ask support to make changes on a test website or backup ALL data prior to requesting support desk assistance.
- Support desk shall use reasonable effort to resolve client's issue in a timely manner.
- Usually, client can expect an answer to his question within 1-2 business days and a resolution within 1-2 weeks
- However providing a FREE service, support desk is under NO obligation to answer questions within a specific time frame and has NO obligation to manage to resolve the issue submitted by client
2. In order to benefit from our technical support, clients must have: -
- subscribed to our 'Technical Support' Extra
registered with our support desk at: www.mass-automation.com/support
- created a ticket on support desk with the description of their problem
3. Please note that: -
- We handle only product specific questions. For obvious reasons, we cannot handle general questions, including but not limited to Web, SEO, HTML, hosting, download, compress/uncompress, email questions.
- We are NOT a real-time support service. We handle questions raised by clients one by one.
- In order to be answered in a timely manner technical questions need to be submitted in client's ticket and NOT sent by email.
- There is NO technical support via email or phone.
- There is no Service Level Agreement. Remember we are a FREE service...
- There is NO technical support during maintenance hours
- Tickets are automatically closed after 8 days of inactivity
- If two tickets are opened for the same issue, the older ticket automatically closed.
- Once the initial question has been resolved the ticket is closed. If client would like to submit another question, he should create a new ticket. This is done in order to avoid long thread tickets covering several, unrelated questions...
- Some of our products are dependent on connection with third party websites. There may be posting errors to some of these sites for several reasons. One of them is because the login or posting process has changed. We update such products on a regular basis to take into account such changes. Between these updates, support desk will not correct these posting errors as they are expected to be fixed with the next release.
- A technical issue is considered to have been fixed once it has been solved or is no apparent on the site which client requested us to test. If client is having the same problem on another site, we assume that the problem is specific to that site.
4. We do NOT provide technical support to clients who: -
- attempt to abuse our refund policy
- attempt to circumvent our license agreement.
- do not subscribe to or unsubscribed from our 'product update' email lists
- create more than one tickets for the same technical issue or post several posts in the same ticket in a very short time frame.
- attempt to circumvent our support guidelines.
- refuse to answer questions asked by support desk.
- attempt to mislead us by making wrong claims such as, including but not limited to, they can't register with or login into support desk, they can't download files, they don't how how to unzip files and/or they have installed our software whereas this is not the case.
- refuse to allow support desk to login into their server in order to resolve their technical problem.
- makes unpleasant, sarcastic, unfair, rude and/or disparaging comments about us or threaten to make such comments.
- operate websites which are involved, directly or indirectly, in ANY illegal, immoral, unethical and/or questionable activities.
The above includes but is not limited to websites promoting:
(i) any material that violates any applicable laws, including without limitation the laws of the United States, the laws of any state or commonwealth within the United States, and the laws of any other jurisdiction that may apply;
(ii) any material that restricts or inhibits any other user from using and enjoying the Internet;
(iii) any material that is considered as SPAM, 'black hat' tactics or contrary to the Internet 'code of conduct';
(iv) any material that is unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, obscene, offensive, harmful, obnoxious, pornographic, profane, sectarian, or indecent, including without limitation any transmissions constituting or encouraging conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable law or regulation;
(v) any material that contains viruses or any other element or component that has a capacity or potential to interrupt, destroy, interfere with, permit the unauthorized use of, or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware, any telecommunications equipment, or any communications network;
(vi) any material that violates or infringes the rights of others, including without limitation rights under copyright, trademark, or patent law; rights of privacy or publicity; rights under defamation law; or rights under securities or other applicable law; or
We expressly reserve the right to include in the above definition ANY client whose material is not deemed by us suitable.
We have the right to change terms and conditions for technical support at any time. Any changes will be posted here on our website and it is client's responsibility to check for changes.
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