Photo policy: how every picture on the rota is matched to the woman who comes

Why the faces are blurred

Every woman on the rota has a life that starts when the shift ends: a career of her own, a course she is halfway through, a family, neighbours, a payslip with nothing to do with this desk. None of that is anybody else's business, and keeping it that way is the condition on which she agreed to appear here at all. So the face goes soft before a set is published, and it stays soft. It is not shyness and it is not a selling trick; it is the one term she asked for, and the desk will not trade it away for a livelier page.

What the blur hides is her identity. What it leaves alone is her likeness: height, figure, hair, colouring, the way she stands and dresses are shown as they are, which is why the matching below matters as much as it does. The unblurred face arrives with her.

Hotel magazine, not studio

The sets are glamour and lifestyle photography, shot in dresses, in bars and hotel corridors, sometimes out on a pavement at dusk. No set contains nudity, and nothing in any of them is explicit or chosen to hint at anything beyond an evening of company.

The sitting with the desk

Before a single picture is published, the companion sits down with the desk. Her photo ID is read, which confirms she is 18 or over, and the images she has brought are laid out and compared with the woman across the table, one after another. Any shot that flatters her into someone else, through an old haircut, a steep angle or heavy work on the file, stays off the rota.

What a retoucher may touch

Retouching stops at what a good print lab would do: exposure, colour balance, a tidier crop, a spot that will be gone within the week, and the softening at the face. It never extends to reshaping a face or a figure, changing height, hair or skin, or smoothing away years. Stock photographs, pictures borrowed from anywhere and computer-generated faces are ruled out entirely.

Twice a year at the least

Every set is looked at again at least every six months, and at once when her appearance changes: a shorter cut, a different colour, a new look for the season. Whatever no longer matches is replaced or removed.

What these pictures are not for

The images stay on this site. Copying them, keeping a private album of them, posting them anywhere else, lifting a face out of one or feeding any of them to a reverse image search are all out of bounds, and the desk acts on it when it learns of it.

The same line holds in the room. Working out who she is, pressing her for her real name, or pointing a phone at her closes the visit where it stands under the conduct clause of the terms, fee kept, nothing to discuss.

On the rare night it goes wrong

Should the companion at your door differ from her photographs, tell her before the evening begins; the booking ends there, with nothing to pay. Then write to Henrietta in the thread you used for the booking. The set is withdrawn until it has been corrected.

Control stays with her

Which photographs appear is her call. One word to the desk and a picture, or the entire profile, is taken down the same day, and no reason is asked for.