Legal
Refund Policy
When money comes back and when it does not. The position is stated in the first section rather than at the end of the page.
The position, in short
- Monthly fees
- Not refundable once a billing period has started. The month you are in is the month you have bought.
- The one-time fee
- Not refundable once we have started the work it pays for. Before that, it is returned in full.
- Cancelling
- Free, and available at any time. It stops the next renewal rather than refunding the current month, and you keep the service until your billing date.
- Our mistakes
- Always refunded. A duplicate charge, a charge after a valid cancellation or a billing error on our side comes back to you in full, and you do not have to argue for it.
Why it is arranged this way
A month of Oleon Workspace is consumed as it passes. The channels stay connected, the messages are carried, the agent answers and the infrastructure runs whether or not anyone opened the inbox that week, and most of that cost is incurred by us on the day rather than at the end.
So instead of a refund window we make cancelling immediate, obvious and free. You are never more than one billing period from stopping, there is no notice period, no cancellation fee and nobody to talk to first. That trade is the honest version of this, and it is why there is no trial-length clock to miss.
What we do refund
- A duplicate charge, or the same invoice paid twice.
- A charge taken after you cancelled, including a recurring card charge that should have stopped.
- A billing error on our side: the wrong plan, the wrong project, or usage counted that you did not have.
- A service we could not provision. If we take a one-time fee and then cannot deliver the setup, it comes back in full.
- A one-time fee where you change your mind before implementation work has begun.
- A payment that failed on the gateway but still left your account.
Where a charge was our mistake we refund it whether or not you spotted it inside 30 days. The window below is for requests, not for our errors.
What we do not refund
- The current month, once it has started, including where you cancel on the first day of it.
- Allowance you did not use. It resets on your billing date and it does not carry over or come back.
- Usage already incurred past your allowance, such as extra AI replies or extra users, since we have already paid for it.
- Seats added part-way through a month, which are charged for that month.
- A dynamic-data change once the change has been applied.
- Custom development, integrations or features already delivered against a separate quote.
- What Meta charges you. That invoice is Meta's, the money never reaches us, and only Meta can return it.
- Fees for a period in which a project was suspended for breach of the terms.
How to ask
Write to the address at the foot of this page within 30 days of the charge and tell us the project, the invoice or payment reference, and what happened. A sentence is enough. You do not need a form and you do not need to phrase it in any particular way.
We will answer within 5 business days with a decision and the reason for it. If we say no, we will say why, and you can ask a person to look at it again.
How long it takes
- Card payments
- Refunded to the card the payment came from, through our payment provider. We send it within 5 business days of approving it. How long it then takes to appear is the bank's, and it is usually 7 to 14 business days.
- Bank transfers
- Returned to the account the money came from, within 14 business days of approval. We may ask you to confirm the account details before sending it.
A refund always goes back the way it came. We cannot send it to a different card, a different account or a different person, and that is a rule about fraud rather than an inconvenience we have chosen.
Chargebacks
If a charge looks wrong, tell us before you tell your bank. We can usually settle it in a day, and a chargeback takes weeks and costs both of us a fee.
A chargeback raised against a valid invoice may suspend the project while it is resolved, and your data stays where it is throughout. We will always show you what the charge was for.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy, and the date at the top says when it last changed. A change applies to charges made after it takes effect, never to one you have already paid. Whatever was in force on the day you were billed is the policy that governs that payment.
Contact
Refund requests, billing questions and anything that looks like a charge you did not expect go here.
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