Pricing policy

At FCCM, we believe in providing fair, transparent and value for money pricing to our clients. As maintenance is an activity which involves a number of variables depending upon location, home type, choice of materials, diagnosis of the issue, etc. we believe in always fixing lower prices for all, on the FCCM Platform, for the sake of fixing them, using unnecessary assumptions, to cover price risks, thereby we don’t make our clients pay more. However, to ensure convenience, we provide fixed pricing for our only one package “Elite package” which cover the fully the premises.

The FCCM Platform is setup to provide 1 type of services – fixed price, by using the FCCM App Platform you agree that you have read and understood the following definitions and terms related to the Pricing Policy.

DEFINITIONS

• Standard Working Hours. FCCM standard working hours are from 365/24/7. No timings are considered outside working hours.
• Service Type. The type of service is determined by the FCCM Platform by the service or issue that the User chooses at the time of booking.
• Inspection Based Service. Services where we need to inspect and diagnose a problem before we start job. e.g. AC repair.
• Survey Based Service. Services where we have to visit and get requirements and/or measurements from the clients before providing an estimate e.g. villa painting, where this service is the optional to the Elite package and cheaper than the market price by upto 70% if you are a member.
• Service Priority. A priority of the Service is selected by the User at the time of the booking to provide the urgency of the service needed by the client.
• Emergency Service. Services which require attending to within 2 hours of the booking. Limited services are available as an Emergency service on the FCCM Platform and also have an Emergency charge applicable. Emergency Service are also open 24×7. FCCM platform.
• Same Day Service. Services which can possibly be attended to in the same day, no specific time preference. No additional charge is applicable for this type of service.
• Scheduled Service. Services which are booked 24 hours in advance and are confirmed bookings, for the day/time of User booking. It applies to Inspection Based Services.
• Labor charges. Charges for labor that is required to complete the service as determined from the inspection and as discussed and agreed with the client through the estimate bill. Charges like call-out are also included in the Labor charges.
• Material charges. Charges for materials (and consumables) that are required to complete the service as determined from the inspection and as discussed and agreed with the User through the estimate bill.
• Service Charges. Charges that are calculated for fixed price services and do not include separate labor and material charges. There is a starting price for the fixed price services which is called the Minimum Service Charges or Starts at Price.
• Survey Charges. Charges to conduct a survey. It is AED 0 in most cases.
• Friday Charges. Additional charges that are applicable for bookings on Friday, which is a public holiday or weekend in the UAE.
• Emergency Charges. Additional charges that are applicable for emergency service bookings.
• Cancellation Charges. Charges applicable on cancellation of services by the User if the cancellation takes place in the short time remaining before the booking visit date/ time.
• Total Amount. Total amount that will be charged for the job. When Total Amount shows “To be Decided”, it means that the Total Amount is yet to be finalized based on the Estimate provided by an Inspection or Survey
• Value Added Tax (VAT) is applied to the Total Amount and displayed at the completion of the job when all the charges have been agreed and displayed on the User side. The current VAT charges are calculated at 5% of the Total Amount.
• Due Amount. Amount outstanding and due to be paid by the User.
• Advance Payment. Payment to be made by the User at the time in advance before service could be commenced. Advance payment is generally charged for bookings which require procurement of parts and materials.
• Payment Method. Users can make a payment via cash or credit/ debit card using our secure payment gateway set-up up on the FCCM website and mobile apps.
• Payment Plan. It includes payment either UPON COMPLETION or ADVANCE for bookings where payments need to be made in advance, to procure material and parts.

RESCHEDULING TERMS

By the User. In case the User is unable to be present at the time of the booking or wants the service at another time he/she can reschedule the service by calling the technician assigned to the booking and agreeing a mutually agreeable day/ time. It should be noted that rescheduling, especially close to the date/ time of the booking, might not be always possible and in such a situation, the job will need to be cancelled and booked again by the User, with payment of any cancellation charges, if applicable. In case of any difficulties, clients can always call FCCM Support on 02 622 0988 for assistance.

By the FCCM Team. There are sometimes situations which are out of the control of our teams and may require us to reschedule a booking. We will call a customer, apologize, explain the situation and request for a rescheduled date and time, or if instructed by the customer cancel the booking, without charging any cancellation charges.

CANCELLATION TERMS

• By the client. A User should cancel a booking by calling FCCM or through the mobile app.
• For Scheduled Service. No cancellation fees is applicable if the technician has not been assigned for a Scheduled booking, before User cancels. Also, if the User cancels 24 hours before the booking date/ time then there is no cancellation charge, however, even if the Genie is assigned.
• For Inspection Based Service. If the cancellation happens in less than 24 hours before booking visit date/ time then a cancellation charge of 50% is applied.
• For Fixed Price Service. If the cancellation happens in less than 24 hours before booking visit date/ time then a cancellation charge of 25% is applied.
• For Survey Based Service. If the cancellation happens more than 24 hours before booking visit date/ time then no cancellation charge is applied. Also, because Survey charges are mostly AED 0.
• For Emergency Service. No cancellation fees is applicable if the Genie has not been assigned for an Emergency booking, before User cancels. If the Genie was assigned before the cancellation, then a total of 100% of the booking amount is charged as cancellation fees.

* NOTE:

• Cancellation charges are applied to only Labor Charges and Service Charges only and not on Emergency or Friday charges. Also, PROMO code is not included or used up as part of the Cancellation Charge calculation.
• A grace period of 1 hour is given for Scheduled Inspection Based Service for cancellation, and no charge will be applicable even if a Genie is assigned.
• By FCCM team. No cancellation of service is possible by the FCCM team. A reschedule is however possible upon agreement with the User by calling over a phone.
• PAYMENT TERMS
• By Cash Cash payments are allowed on the FCCM platform.
• By Debit or Credit Card Card payments are allowed on the FCCM platform.
• By Account Transfer or Cheque Only on very rare cases we accept cheques or account transfers. FCCM Support team will be able to provide you required details for the same.
• Upon completion of a scheduled service, if the materials installed or supplied by FCCM breaks down or has other technical/ mechanical or any workmanship issues, within 7 calendar days of the service, there will be a one-time free visit to fix the issue.

PRIVACY POLICY

We take your privacy very seriously. Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes the Company’s policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your information when you use the FCCM Platform or our Services. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy is a part of and incorporated within and is to be read along with the Terms of Use (“Terms”). The capitalized terms used in this Privacy Policy, but not defined herein, shall have the meaning given to such terms in the Terms.

INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU

We may collect and process the following data about you:

Information you give us. You may give us information about yourself by filling in forms on the FCCM Platform or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you register to use the FCCM Platform, subscribe to our Services, participate in social media functions on the FCCM Platform, provide feedback, reviews and rating or when you report a problem with the FCCM Platform. The information you give us may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number, personal description, photograph or photographs of specific area of your home or such equipment/appliances, that require repair. You may also choose to provide other personal information in order to express yourself beyond the required information, such as your location, your website, or a picture. Your name and your profile picture you choose to add to your profile will be available for public viewing on the FCCM Platform.

Information we collect about you. With regard to each of your visits to the FCCM Platform, we may automatically collect the following information:

* technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform;

* such information as required to provide/enhance the Services including without limitation photographs or details of such specific area of your home or home appliances/equipment that have been repaired or are being used by you.

* information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) click stream to, through and from the FCCM Platform (including date and time); material or information that you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call our customer service number.

* If you use your account information with Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus or Gmail or any other social networking or similar site (collectively, “SNS”) to sign in to the FCCM Platform, an option of which may be provided by the FCCM Platform to you at its sole discretion, we will collect and store your SNS User ID, and other account information and other information freely made available to the Company by the SNS. The Account Information that is collected includes all the account information provided by you to that FCCM Platform. Please be aware that the other information we obtain from the SNS is often dependent on their privacy policies and/or on your settings regarding what information you have consented to share with services like that of Company’s.

Information we receive from other sources. We may receive information about you if you use any of the other websites we operate or the other services we provide. In this case we will inform you when we collect that data and that it may be shared internally and combined with data collected on this FCCM Platform. We are also working closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies) and may receive information about you from such sources. We collect non-personally identifiable information from the FCCM Platform visitors to track the total of number of visitors to the FCCM Platform in aggregate form and identify the type of Internet web browser (e.g., Internet Explorer®) and operating system (e.g., Windows®, Android, iOS, etc.) used by the Users. This information allows us continuously to improve our FCCM Platform.

Metadata is usually technical data associated with Content you submit, post or share on the FCCM Platform. Users can add or may have metadata added to their Content including geolocation, date, attribution, or other data.

COOKIES

Our FCCM Platform uses cookies to distinguish you from other Users of our FCCM Platform. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you use FCMEP Platform and also allows us to improve it continuously. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them see our Cookie Policy

USE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We use information held about you in the following ways:

* Information you give to us. We will use this information:

• to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us
• to verify and process your personal particulars and payment
• to communicate with you, including to confirm and update you on the status of the Services and respond to your queries and requests
• to share with Suppliers to improve Suppliers’ services
• to inform you of promotions, offers, surveys, events, products and services, which may be of interest to you
• to facilitate the Services offered through the FCCM Platform
• to update and back-up our records
• to reduce credit risk, detect and protect us against error, fraud and other criminal activity
• to comply with Applicable Law, the requests of law enforcement and regulatory officials, or orders of court
• to enforce our legal rights and remedies
• to enhance the security of the FCCM Platform
• to personalise content
• to remember information to help you efficiently access your account
• to provide you with information about other services we offer that are similar to those that you are already using or have enquired about
• to provide you, or permit selected third parties to provide you, with information about services we feel may interest you. If you are a registered User, we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS) with information about services similar to the Services. If you are a new customer, and where we permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this. If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please write to us at INFO@FCCM-ME.COM
• to notify you about changes to our Services
• to ensure that content from the FCCM Platform is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer/mobile
• to send you Service-related notices. We may also use your contact information to send you marketing email messages. If you do not want to receive such messages, you may opt out by following the instructions in the message. In order to verify that the e-mail address provided by you belongs to you, we will send you a verification e-mail. Once, the verification process is complete, your Account will be fully functional.

Information we collect about you. We will use this information:

• to administer the FCCM Platform and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes
• to improve the FCCM Platform to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer or smartphone
• to allow you to participate in interactive features of our Services, if any, when you choose to do so;
• to publish in social media or on FCCM Platform for the promotion of the Company or the FCCM Platform
• as part of our efforts to keep the FCCM Platform safe and secure
• to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you
• to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other Users of the FCCM Platform about Services that may interest you or them Information we receive from other sources. We may combine this information with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We may use this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive).

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

For the Content that you personally upload on the FCCM Platform, you can choose to keep your Content private or public. Private Content will not be visible to anyone except you and people with whom you share the URL of the private Content so uploaded. Private Content will not be cached and archived on our servers. Public Content on the other hand is accessible to everyone, including search engines. Other Users can collect, reproduce, comment on, and share all publicly available Content on the FCCM Platform. We reserve the right to share all public Content on any SNS or any other online or offline platform. We will never share any Content which you have marked as private unless we have your permission from you. We will never rent or sell your personal information to third parties, except on an anonymized basis, unless expressly provided in these Terms.

Any information you voluntarily disclose for posting to the FCCM Platform, including your profile page information, is accessible to anyone. When you submit, post or share the Content that you choose to make public, on the FCMEP Platform, it may be re-shared by others.

We may share your personal information with any member of our Group. The term “Group” includes means, with respect to any person, any entity that is controlled by such person, or any entity that controls such person, or any entity that is under common control with such person, whether directly or indirectly, or, in the case of a natural person, any relative.

We may share your information with selected third parties including:

• Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with you.
• Advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and serve relevant adverts to you and others.

We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our Users (for example, we may inform them that any given number of women in a specified age group clicked on their advertisement on any given day). We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target.

These third parties may collect information about you and your online activities, either on the Site or on other websites, through cookies, web beacons, and other technologies in an effort to understand your interests and deliver to you, advertisements that are tailored to your interests. Please remember that we do not have access to, or control over, the information these third parties may collect. The information practices of these third parties are not covered by this privacy policy. Please note that once your information has become part of the aggregated, anonymised data, such data shall not be affected by your decision to delete your personal information from the FCCM Platform.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.

If the Company or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.

If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms or and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

WHEN WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Personal data refers to data, whether true or not, about an individual: (i) who can be identified from that data; or (ii) from that data and other information to which we have or are likely to have access. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. All credit/debit card details and personally identifiable information will NOT be stored, sold, shared, rented or leased to any third parties. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of the FCCM Platform, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to the FCCM Platform; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.

HOW WE TREAT YOUR BROWSER INFORMATION

We analyze the log files of our FCCM Platform to better understand the volume of traffic to particular areas of our FCCM Platform. This information helps us to serve your information needs.

YOUR RIGHTS

You are free to remove or delete Content from your Account at any point in time by sending a request to INFO@FCCM-ME.COM However, there is a strong possibility that copies of public Content will be retained indefinitely in our systems, including in cached and archived pages of the FCCM Platform, or if other Users have copied or saved that information. In addition, due to the nature of internet sharing, copies of your Content, including Content that you have removed or deleted from your Account, may also exist elsewhere on the Internet and be retained indefinitely.

As noted above, you may opt out from unwanted e-mail communications from us by following the instructions in the message. However, until your Account is deleted you will continue to receive all system e-mails.

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at INFO@FCCM-ME.COM

The FCCM Platform may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

The FCCM Platform Policies and Terms & Conditions may be changed or updated occasionally to meet the requirements and standards. Therefore, customers are encouraged to frequently visit the above sections in order to be updated about the changes on the website. Modifications will be effective on the day they are posted.

THE TERMS OF USE

• These terms of use (together with the documents referred to in it) (referred to as “Terms”) are the terms on which you may make use of our website www.fcmep.com and/or our mobile application (Referred to as “FCCM Platform”), whether as a guest or a registered customer (referred to as “User”). Use of the FCCM Platform includes accessing, browsing, or registering, booking and paying on the FCCM Platform. Please read these Terms carefully before you start to use the FCCM Platform. We recommend that you print a copy of this for future reference.
• By using the FCCM Platform, you confirm that you accept these Terms and that you agree to comply with them.
• If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not use the FCCM Platform. If you do not agree with any amendments made by to these Terms at any time in future, you must stop using the FCCM Platform with immediate effect.

OTHER APPLICABLE TERMS

• These Terms refer to, incorporate, and include the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of the FCCM Platform.
• Our Privacy Policy, which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us. By using the FCCM Platform, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
• Our Acceptable Use Policy, which sets out the terms of your use of the FCCM Platform/ Services.
• Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on the FCCM Platform.
• Our Pricing Policy, which sets out the pricing, payment and refund terms for Services availed from the FCCM Platform.