Standards
Content standards
These standards explain what may and may not be published on Red Pages. They are designed to support lawful advertising, reduce fake and misleading listings, and make clear that provider control over listing content comes with direct responsibility.
Provider responsibility
If you publish a listing on Red Pages, you are responsible for ensuring that the listing is accurate, current, lawful, non-deceptive, and authorised.
You must have the right to publish all text, images, videos, branding, contact details, and other material included in your listing.
Accuracy and anti-false-advertising rule
Listings must not contain false, deceptive, misleading, or materially incomplete information.
This includes false or misleading statements about:
- who the provider is
- whether the advertised person is the person who will attend
- age eligibility or work eligibility
- location or service area
- availability
- services offered
- pricing, fees, or mandatory extras
- photos, appearance, identity, or recentness of the material shown
Red Pages may remove content that creates a misleading overall impression even if individual statements are technically true.
Identity, impersonation, and representation
You must not impersonate another provider, business, or other person or entity.
You must not use another person's name, image, likeness, branding, reputation, or contact details in a way that is likely to confuse, mislead, or deceive.
Red Pages supports self-representation by independent providers. Listings must not give a false impression about who controls the listing or who will provide the advertised service.
Photos, videos, and likeness consent
- Photos and videos must depict the advertised provider or otherwise be clearly and honestly presented.
- They must be published with the consent of every identifiable person shown.
- They must be used with the permission of the rights holder.
- They must not be stolen, copied, scraped, or reused without authority.
- They must not be materially edited in a way that misleads users about identity, appearance, age, body, location, or available services.
Red Pages may require evidence of consent, authorship, licensing, or authority to publish media.
AI-generated and heavily edited media
Red Pages does not permit AI-generated images, composites, or materially altered media to be used in a way that makes a fictional, edited, or substituted person appear to be the advertised provider.
If an image looks like a real photo of a person, it must be an actual photo of the provider offering the service.
AI-generated images may be used only where they do not depict a real-looking provider photo, such as clearly illustrative images or clearly non-photographic avatars, and they must not create a false impression about identity, appearance, or availability.
Safer-sex rule
Red Pages promotes safer-sex practices. Listings must not advertise, request, encourage, suggest, or imply that sexual services are available without condom use or other appropriate barrier protection where relevant.
Content that conflicts with this rule may be rejected, removed, or escalated for further review.
Illegal, exploitative, coercive, or underage-related content
Red Pages has zero tolerance for content involving or suggesting:
- minors or underage persons
- coercion, trafficking, exploitation, or lack of consent
- impersonation for fraud or abuse
- non-consensual intimate imagery
- unlawful or prohibited services
- any other unlawful or objectionable material
Red Pages may remove such content immediately, preserve relevant records, and report matters to authorities where appropriate.
Location, availability, and pricing transparency
Listings must not mislead users about where services are offered, whether the provider is genuinely available, what is included, or what pricing applies.
Pricing is optional. If pricing is published, it must not be false, baiting, or materially incomplete in a way that misleads users about the likely cost.
Verification and trust indicators
Providers are responsible for ensuring they meet age, work eligibility, and authority requirements for the content they publish on Red Pages.
If Red Pages offers verification, the scope of any verification is limited to the specific fact checked, such as identity, age, authority, or other eligibility criteria. Verification must not be used to imply broader endorsement or guarantees that Red Pages has not made.
Reporting, review, and enforcement
Users can report listings or media for reasons including:
- fake or misleading information
- stolen or unauthorised photos
- impersonation
- unlawful or exploitative content
- underage concerns
- safer-sex rule breaches
Red Pages may:
- request clarification or evidence
- temporarily restrict a listing while reviewing a complaint
- require corrections
- remove individual items of content
- remove an entire listing
- suspend or terminate accounts
- preserve information relevant to serious complaints or legal obligations
When reviewing fake-ad or stolen-photo complaints, Red Pages assesses the matter case by case and may ask for additional evidence, such as more photos or direct communication, before deciding what action to take.
Repeated breaches, serious deception, or attempts to evade enforcement may result in stronger action. You must not attempt to avoid enforcement by creating replacement accounts, reposting removed material, changing only superficial details of deceptive content, or shifting a listing between accounts in order to defeat review.
Red Pages aims to review reports as quickly as reasonably possible, with higher priority given to underage, exploitation, impersonation, stolen-photo, and other urgent safety matters.
- urgent safety reports: within 24 hours
- impersonation or stolen-photo reports: within 2 business days
- ordinary moderation issues: within 5 business days
These are target review times, not guaranteed final resolution times.