Terms & Conditions

1. The client authorises the employees and contractors of Payam Data Recovery (Australia) and Payam Data Recovery Limited (New Zealand) to receive and transport their device to and from their facilities by courier.
2. The client represents, warrants, and affirms that he/she is the owner of or corporate representative for the device sent for data recovery.
3. Any property left with Payam Data Recovery for more than 90 days will be disposed of, sold, reused, or recycled. In this case, Payam Data Recovery is without liability to the client or any third party.
4. The client understands that, although our success rate is extremely high, data recovery cannot be guaranteed. There are cases where no data at all can be recovered or only some of the data can be recovered.
5. The client understands that a hard drive, SSD, mobile phone, tablet, USB flash drive, memory card, or any other electronic device may fail at any time – even while in possession of Payam Data Recovery. The client shall not hold Payam Data Recovery responsible in any way for any such failure.
6. In no event will a contractor or employee of Payam Data Recovery be liable for any loss of data, damage to the device, loss of revenue or profit, or any other consequence of the service provided.
7. Payam Data Recovery agrees to keep all data recovered private and confidential at all times. Any child pornography found must be reported to a respective law enforcement division, as this is required by law. All other data will remain confidential in accordance with privacy laws. If any data that we recover is requested by law enforcement, this will be provided in accordance with the law.
8. A full payment is due prior to the release of data, unless a previous arrangement has been made.
9. Our “No-Data, No-Fee” policy only applies for specified cases. In some circumstances, an initial fee which is not refundable may be requested before work is started. This is always discussed before we begin our data recovery procedures, and will be stated in a quote for your device.
10. Payment Methods accepted: EFTPOS, Visa, Mastercard, American Express, EFT/Bank transfer. Cash or Cheques are not accepted unless approved by management prior to receiving this payment.
11. Once the data recovery work is completed, you are welcome to examine/test any files you like. Once you take the data out of our office, or if you make a payment and we deliver it to you by a courier – there is no refund for any reason.
12. If you approve your quote and request that we cancel the job for any reason after 24 hours has passed, we cannot provide you with any refund. The payment you have made will be kept, we can stop work and return the device to you at no additional cost.
13. Payment is required within 14 days of the work being completed. You can pay by EFTPOS, Credit card or EFT/Bank transfer. We will need your full payment provided in cleared funds before we return your data to you.
14. Payment after 14 days will incur a late payment fee of $30 per week, unless this is waived due to special circumstances by our staff prior to approving the quote. If you do not pay us within 60 days, a debt collector will be used, and you will be charged an additional 25% fee by the debt collector. This 25% fee of the invoice will be billed to the client, and will not paid by Payam Data Recovery.
15. If the method of data recovery we quoted you for fails, we may offer you another method and provide you with a revised quote which will be higher in price. This will be an obligation-free quote.
16. We cannot guarantee how much data can be recovered from your device, we will only know when we complete the recovery attempt. We strive to retrieve all possible recoverable data. You will be permitted to test the data and check if your important files are in good condition before you pay us. Our goal will be to recover your most important files, as well as all other data, in the best condition possible.

We see 7 types of problems with hard drives, for 6 out of 8 problem types including logical problems, file system problems, bad sectors/read errors, damaged PCB, firmware problems or deleted files/reformatted) if we cannot recover your data, you will be given a full refund. 99% of the time, the data is usually recoverable if we spend the time to do the work and have no unexpected problems, the data is usually recoverable. If not, we will refund your money.

But If your hard drive has damaged heads or a seized spindle motor, our class-100 room team is required. Our elite team of highly skilled, professionally trained, expert clean room engineers at our head office in Sydney, NSW will work on your hard drive. If there is no damage to the platters, there is usually a 97-99% chance of getting your data back! If there is damage to the platters, there is usually a much lower chance of success (and it is possible no data at all may be recoverable, or only a partial recovery). Sometimes the damage is easily visible, sometimes it’s not possible to see it at all but there is damage. In these cases we will inform you that clean room work is required. We will seek your permission to continue our work and inform you that $500 or more of any amount you pay us is not refundable to cover our time, efforts, labour and any spare parts if required. No discounts or offers can be used for this $500 amount (or more). If we cannot recover your data, there is no extra money due. The amount you agreed to will remain the same but if for any reason if the data cannot be recovered (usually due to damage to platters being too severe, or damage to platters repeatedly killing our spare parts and not responding successfully to our repair attempts). We will keep the $500 (or any other non-refundable amount) you pay us to cover the cost of our time, labour, efforts and expertise in an effort to try to do everything possible to help get your data back.

Nobody will try harder than us to help you, your best chance of success is with us, we know what to do, how to do it and are the best equipped to give you the maximum chance of getting your data back if our class-100 clean room team is needed. As mentioned, if this is required, we will ask for your permission before we start this type of invasive, most complex data recovery work.