The Free Version

Terms of Service — South Africa

These terms are an agreement between The Remote Support Program (Pty) Ltd (registration number 2026/737434/07, "we", "us") and the company signing up ("you"). The person who ticks the box at signup confirms that they may bind that company to these terms.

The Free Version

You are signing up for the Free version of The Remote Support Program. Everything in these terms applies to it, with the changes in this section. Where this section and the rest of these terms differ, this section applies.

• Your own computer. The Free version is for reaching a computer that you, or the company you sign up for, own, or whose owner has allowed you to reach it — for example your computer at the office. You must not use it to support your customers or anybody else's computers; that needs the full version.
• What it includes. One person, who is the owner and the technician. Unattended access to 1 computer, protected by an unattended password chosen when it is installed. Remote control, file transfer, copy and paste, and printing. It does not include attended access, tickets, a branded app for customers, or the other features of the Basic version or the full version.
• No fees. The Free version costs nothing, so section 2 (the trial, the price and paying) does not apply to it, and there is nothing to refund under section 11. If you upgrade to the Basic version or the full version, you will be shown its price and its terms, and accept them, before anything is charged.
• Removing and replacing a computer. You may remove your computer to make room for another, up to two removals in a calendar month.
• Changes to the Free version. We may change what the Free version includes, or its limits, or stop offering it, by telling you by email at least 30 days before.
• Section 3 still applies in full. Even on your own computer, the people who use it must know that it can be reached remotely; a notice saying "Being controlled remotely" is shown on the screen during every session.

1. What the service is

The Remote Support Program is software you use to support your own customers: remote control of their computers, file transfer, scripts, a monthly health check, tickets, chat and the other features described on our website. It is provided as a hosted service under your own company's name and branding.

You decide which of your customers' computers it is installed on, who in your company may use it, and what is done with it. We provide the tool; you provide the support.

2. Your trial, the price and paying

• A new company gets a free trial of 14 days. Nothing is charged during the trial, and no card is needed to start it.
• If you pay by card, add it on the Billing page before the trial ends; nothing is charged until the day after it ends. If no card has been added by then, the service is suspended that day, after reminders by email, until a card is added. An account still without a card 30 days after it was suspended is closed. Nothing is deleted when the service is suspended.
• After the trial the price is R500 a month for five seats, any mix of roles. One person holding only the owner role is free; everybody else who can sign in takes a seat, and one person takes one seat however many roles they hold. That free owner login sets the company up and oversees it: it sees every ticket, client and computer and may comment on tickets, but it does not work tickets or connect to computers.
• A company has five seats; more are on request. We built the service to make proper IT support software affordable for small IT companies, so every company starts with five. If you need more, an owner may ask us on the Billing page. Whether we agree, and how many seats we allow, is our decision. If we agree, each seat past five is R300 a month. It is added only when an owner adds somebody and accepts the new monthly price shown first, and it is charged from your next payment, with no part-month charges. Removing somebody brings the price down again from the payment after. Otherwise, to add somebody when your seats are all in use, remove a person or a role first.
• Prices are in South African rand. No VAT is charged: we are not registered for VAT. If we register, we will tell you at least 30 days before VAT is added to your price.
• You pay monthly in advance. If a payment is more than 14 days late we may suspend the service until it is paid, after telling you by email.
• We may change our prices by telling you at least 30 days before the change takes effect. You may end the agreement before then if you do not accept the new price.

3. What you must do

• Have permission. You must have the permission of the owner and the user of every computer you install the software on or connect to, as the law where that computer is requires. The customer's own app asks them before each attended session; unattended access is something they switch on themselves. You are responsible for using these as your customers have agreed.
• Keep your logins safe. Every person must use their own login and the two-factor code. You are responsible for anything done with your company's logins, and you must tell us at once if you think one has been misused.
• Use it lawfully. You must not use the service to access a computer without authority, to spy on anyone, to spread malicious software, to break any law, or to harm our systems or anyone else's.
• Your customers' data is yours to look after. You decide what of your customers' information passes through the service, and you are responsible for having a lawful reason to process it.

4. Your data and backups — we are not responsible for loss of data

Remote support changes computers. Scripts, file transfers, installations, restarts and the work your technicians do can change, damage or delete data on your customers' machines. You and your customers are responsible for keeping backups of everything that matters before work is done.

We are not responsible for any loss of, damage to, or corruption of data on any computer, whether caused by the use of the service, by a technician's action, by a script, by a fault in the software, by a failure of a computer or network, or by anything else, except where the law does not allow this to be excluded.

We back up our own servers every night and take reasonable care of the information stored on them (your tickets, clients, settings and records). We do not promise that it can never be lost, and you should keep your own copies of anything you cannot do without — for example by exporting your client list.

5. Privacy and where your data is kept

This agreement follows the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA).

• Your customers' information. For the personal information of your customers and their staff that passes through the service (names, contact details, machine details, screens, files, chat, tickets), you are the responsible party and we are your operator under sections 20 and 21 of POPIA. We process it only to provide the service and on your instructions, treat it as confidential, secure it as section 19 requires, and tell you as soon as reasonably possible if we believe it has been accessed or acquired by an unauthorised person (section 22), so that you can notify the Information Regulator and the people affected.
• Your own information. For the information about your company and your staff that we need to run your account and bill you, we are the responsible party. We use it only for that, and we never sell it.
• Where it is kept. Your data is kept on servers in South Africa. We do not send it outside South Africa except as section 72 of POPIA allows, and we will tell you which other providers we use to run the service (for example our hosting provider) on request.
• People's rights. If one of your customers asks you to see, correct or delete their information, we will help you do it.
• Our Information Officer is our director, Clint, at queries@theremotesupportprogram.com or 19 Tide Street, Knysna Central, Knysna, 6571.
• These terms are concluded electronically, as the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act 25 of 2002 allows.

6. Security

We protect the service with encryption on every connection, two-factor sign-in for every login, and the other measures described in our security documentation. No system is perfectly secure. If we learn of a breach that affects your data we will tell you without undue delay, and do what the law requires of us.

7. Availability and changes

We work to keep the service running at all times but we do not promise that it will always be available or free of faults. We may carry out maintenance, and will try to do it outside working hours. We may improve and change the service; if a change takes away something important you rely on, we will tell you in advance.

8. The service is provided as it is

Except where the law says otherwise, the service is provided "as is" and "as available", without any warranty that it is fit for a particular purpose, will meet your needs, or will be uninterrupted or error-free.

9. Limits on our liability

• We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, including loss of profit, revenue, business, goodwill or data, however it arises.
• Our total liability to you for everything arising from this agreement in any twelve months is limited to the fees you paid us in those twelve months.
• Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, or rights you have under the Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008 if it applies to you.

10. Your responsibility to us

You will compensate us for claims made against us by your customers or anyone else that arise from how you used the service, from a breach of these terms, or from using it without the permission described in section 3.

11. Cancelling, refunds and ending the agreement

• You may cancel at any time, by email to queries@theremotesupportprogram.com or by phone on 078 131 5618. Nothing more is charged after you cancel; the service carries on until the end of the month you have already paid for, and then stops.
• The free trial costs nothing, so there is nothing to refund if you cancel during it.
• We do not refund part of a month you have paid for, because you pay monthly in advance and may cancel before the next month starts.
• A payment taken in error — charged twice, charged after you cancelled, or the wrong amount — is refunded in full, to the card or account it came from, within 30 days of you telling us.
• We may end the agreement by giving you 30 days' notice, or at once if you seriously break these terms or do not pay.
• When it ends, you can no longer sign in, and the software on your customers' machines stops connecting. We delete your company's data 60 days after the agreement ends, except what the law requires us to keep. Ask us before then for an export of your data.

12. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms. We will tell you by email at least 30 days before a change that matters takes effect, and you may end the agreement before then if you do not accept it. The version you accepted is kept on your account.

13. The law that applies

These terms are governed by the law of the Republic of South Africa. You and we agree to the jurisdiction of the Western Cape Division of the High Court, Cape Town, or a magistrate's court with jurisdiction over the claim.

14. Contact

The Remote Support Program (Pty) Ltd, registration number 2026/737434/07
19 Tide Street, Knysna Central, Knysna, Western Cape, 6571, South Africa
queries@theremotesupportprogram.com · 078 131 5618