Frequently asked questions
Sorted by the four groups that use rosalon. Tap a question to open the answer.
For clients
What is rosalon?
rosalon is one search across the listings of many Swiss portals and venues, without signing up. You filter by place, radius, service, preference and price and compare prices side by side. You get in touch through the original listing on its portal, or directly through the profiles marked “Direct on rosalon”, which sex workers create themselves on our site.
Where do the listings from other portals come from?
Every night we read the publicly visible listings of the Swiss portals we cover, and follow their rules. We take features such as place, category, language and hourly price, plus the link to the original. Photos and texts stay on the portal.
Are the details on other portals’ listings accurate?
We take them as the portal shows them, without guarantee – occasionally we assign a feature wrongly. The original on the portal always governs.
Why do I see no photos on listings from other portals?
The photos belong to the person and to the portal where they advertise. We do not take them, nor the ad texts. You see photos only on profiles that someone created on rosalon themselves, with consent to publication.
How up to date are the entries?
We read the listings of other portals again every night. Every entry shows when we last saw it, and anything that has not appeared for seven days drops out. Profiles on rosalon are kept up to date by the people themselves.
Why is the price sometimes missing?
For listings from other portals, the portal gives no hourly price, or we could not read it with certainty. A missing price does not mean free. In the price comparison, profiles with an incomplete price list are shown separately, because unknown does not mean expensive.
Why does the same person sometimes appear more than once?
We try to combine the listings of one person into a single card. That does not always work.
What does rosalon cost?
Nothing. Searching, comparing and reading reviews is free, and we handle no payments. What a meeting costs, you agree directly with the person or the venue.
Do I need an account?
No. Searching, comparing and reading reviews works without an account and without us recognising you. You only need one for three things: to review a venue, to save listings and venues as favourites, or to keep a wish profile that notifies you when new listings match it. It is not linked to what you search and compare.
Am I being tracked? Are there cookies?
Advertising only clearly labelled and sold directly by us – no ad networks, no advertising trackers, no service from another company. We count page views as daily totals. If you click on an external portal, an external listing, a venue page or a profile, we also record the date and time, plus roughly the device and the country and, if you came from the search, your search filters – with nothing that says who you are, for 30 days. We do not recognise you in the process and use no third-party analytics tools. Cookies exist for what you set or do yourself – your colour scheme, discreet mode and your sign-in if you have an account – and one that holds only the day of your last visit; you can switch that one off on the discretion page. If you have never chosen a colour scheme, we draw one at random and keep it in a further cookie until you close the browser. The full list, including what the server logs, is on the discretion page.
What does “verified” mean?
The mark appears on profiles on rosalon whose ID and selfie we have compared by hand. It is our own check, not an official one. Your picture stays with us encrypted until the decision, three days at most, and is deleted afterwards; only when and how the check was done is stored.
How does the price comparison work?
You choose a service and a duration. For each profile we add the base price for that time and the extras, and rank by this total. Listings from other portals and venues are included too, as long as they give a price for that duration; without a price, there is no comparison.
For sex workers
I found an entry about me. How do I have it removed?
Tap “Ask for this entry to be removed” on the card. You need no account and no proof. As a rule the entry disappears at once and is not taken up again later; only a request that looks unusual is checked by us first. The listing on the other portal stays online – you have to have it deleted there separately. A search engine drops the entry only once it reads the page again – we notify it.
Does rosalon take my photos or my number?
No. From listings on other portals we take no photos and no ad text, and we never show your phone number and never store it in readable form. We show name and age group when your portal carries them as their own field.
Am I reviewed on rosalon?
No. Today only venues are reviewed, and a rating appears only where more than one person stands behind the venue. Listings on other portals are never reviewed here.
Can I create a profile of my own?
Yes, you can already create a profile of your own. You change or pause it whenever you like, and deleting takes effect at once, no questions asked.
Do I have to show my ID?
No. For a profile to appear, we check your phone number; for paid services you also confirm that you are at least 18. You only show your ID if you want the “verified” mark: you send one picture holding the ID next to your face; it stays with us encrypted, three days at most, and is gone with the decision.
Can I delete my profile at any time?
Yes – yourself, at once and without questions. Photos, texts and prices go with the profile, and its address then says the profile no longer exists. What search engines have already cached, however, we cannot delete ourselves.
For venues
How does my venue get onto rosalon?
We take name, address and website from what the venue has published itself, on portals and in directories. Soon you will be able to add and manage your venue yourself.
Does the venue page cost anything?
No. A better position cannot be bought either, and nothing is sorted by rating.
How do reviews work?
Clients with an account give one to five stars and can describe their experience. The star counts at once, the text only after we have checked it; a text that makes someone recognisable is not published. Reviews older than 12 months no longer count.
Why does my venue show no rating?
A rating appears only from 5 reviews, so that a single voice does not decide everything. And only where more than one person stands behind the venue; otherwise it would be a review of a human being. If we know no listing at all for the venue, we show none either.
Can I reply to a review?
Soon: as soon as you manage your venue yourself, your reply appears right next to the review. A review that is not accurate can already be reported today, without an account; it disappears at once until we have checked it.
For portals
What does rosalon take from my portal?
Features such as place, category, language, gender and hourly price, plus the address of the listing. No photos, no ad texts, no phone number in plain text. Every entry names your portal and links to the original.
How does rosalon fetch listings?
In one run per night, openly under the name rosalon-marktanalyse. We enter nothing behind a login or a paywall, and we solve no CAPTCHAs.
We would like to cooperate. Who do we contact?
Gladly. A contact address for portals will be on this page soon. Until then, every entry with us links directly to your listing.
