HP Hardware Support Offsite Return Service offers high-quality return-to-HP service levels with remote telephone support and offsite repair for eligible products at an HP designated repair center. The service includes offsite repair or replacement, materials and parts, labor, and the cost of the return shipment. HP offers service levels with flexible shipment options to the HP designated repair center, as detailed below. Some service levels are also available with optional service features such as accidental damage protection or defective media retention.

• When experiencing a problem, the Customer must first place a call to a designated support telephone number. HP will provide basic telephone technical assistance with installation, product configuration, setup, and problem resolution. Prior to any remote or offsite assistance, HP may ask the Customer to provide relevant information, start diagnostic tools, and perform other supporting activities. HP will then work with the Customer remotely to isolate the hardware problem.

• If HP determines that the problem cannot be resolved remotely, HP will direct the Customer to return the defective hardware product to an HP designated repair center, where HP will provide technical support. HP will provide HP-supported parts and materials necessary to return the hardware product to operating condition. HP may, at its sole discretion, elect to replace such hardware products in lieu of repairing them. Replacement parts and products are new or functionally equivalent to new in performance. Replaced parts and products become the property of HP.

• In addition, HP may install commercially available engineering improvements on the covered hardware product to enable proper operation of the hardware products and maintain compatibility with HP-supplied hardware replacement parts. At its sole discretion, HP may install any firmware updates that, in the opinion of HP, are required to return the covered product to operating condition or to maintain supportability by HP.

• An HP authorized courier will return the repaired or replaced product to the Customer's location if it is within the geographic location where the service was provided. Return shipment will be by ground transportation and usually takes between three and seven business days. The Customer may request accelerated delivery at an additional charge.

• Depending on the purchased service level, HP offers different, flexible shipment options for delivering the defective product to the HP designated repair center:

• •Delivery by the Customer: With this option, the Customer is responsible for delivering the defective product to the HP designated repair center. The Customer must ensure that the product is appropriately packaged for the chosen method of delivery. Delivery can be in person or by a locally available commercial delivery service.

• •Pickup by HP: An HP authorized courier will pick up the defective product at the Customer's location if the pick-up location is within the geographic location where the service will be provided, and deliver it to the HP designated repair center. It is the Customer's responsibility to appropriately package and prepare the product for courier pickup. Service requests must be received before 12:00 p.m. local time to activate same-day pickup. All other service requests will be scheduled for next-business-day pickup.

• Turnaround time for this service will be three (3) HP business days for eligible locations, except in cases of intermittent failures and non-availability of parts, which may require additional repair time. Turnaround time is measured in elapsed business days from the time the defective product is received by HP until the time the repaired or replaced product is ready to be shipped back to the Customer.

• Received by HP means (depending on shipment option used) either: (1) picked up at the Customer's site by an HP authorized courier or (2) received during HP business hours at the HP designated repair center, if delivered or shipped by the Customer. Turnaround time does not include the time the repaired or replaced product is in transit back to the Customer. If the defective product is received at the HP designated repair center after 5:00 p.m. local time, the three-business-day turnaround time starts with the next business day.

• The three-business-day turnaround time is not available for all geographic locations and may be longer outside metropolitan areas.