Questions and answers
How the directory works, what the verification tick claims, and where the boundaries sit. If something here is unclear, tell us.
What is DubaiGF?
It is a companion directory for Dubai. The people listed here are available to join you for dinner, an event, a trip or a social occasion — female, trans and male, listed separately so you can look for whoever you want to meet.
Every listing is verified before it appears, which is the part most directories skip.
Is this a dating site?
No. Dating platforms are built around matching people who are looking for a relationship, and they sort everyone that way. This is a directory: you look through it, find someone whose company appeals to you, and ask.
What are companions here offering?
Whatever each listing says. People describe what they are available for in their own words — dinner, events, travel, showing someone around the city, company for an occasion where arriving alone is awkward.
Anything you go on to arrange is between the two of you. DubaiGF introduces people and verifies that they are who their photographs say they are; it is not a party to what you agree afterwards and takes no fee from it.
What does the verified tick mean?
It means that person recorded a short video on this site — about five seconds, from their own camera — and a moderator watched it and judged the face in it to be the same face as the photographs on their listing.
We would rather describe that narrowly than oversell it. It is a human comparing a video against photographs. It is not a biometric liveness check: a recording can be replayed, and software can feed video into a camera as though it were live. A careful reviewer catches most of that, not all of it.
It is also not a background check, a criminal records check or a character reference. It says nothing about anyone's intentions or manners. There is no way to obtain the tick except by recording the video — no manual override exists.
How do I get listed in the directory?
Five things have to be true at once: your email address is confirmed, your profile is complete, you have between five and ten photographs that a moderator has approved individually, one approved photograph is set as your cover, and your verification video has been accepted.
Until every one of those is done, your listing stays private. Nothing is published automatically and there is no way to skip the queue.
How many photographs do I need?
Between five and ten, and each one is reviewed by a moderator before it can appear. They must be recent photographs of you, and you must own the rights to them.
One of the approved photographs becomes your cover image, which is what appears in the directory listing.
How does contacting someone work?
There is no open messaging. You send a connection request, and a conversation only exists once that request has been accepted.
This keeps unsolicited messages out of companions' inboxes entirely, rather than filtering them after the fact.
Can I decline a request without explaining why?
Yes, always. You are never required to give a reason, and a request you simply leave alone has been answered.
Continuing to push after a refusal will cost the account. You can also block someone outright, which stops any further contact.
What happens to my photographs when I upload them?
They are rebuilt rather than stored as supplied. Each image is decoded and re-encoded from raw pixels, which discards everything wrapped around the picture data: GPS coordinates, camera and device identifiers, colour profiles and anything else appended to the file.
Phone photographs routinely record exactly where they were taken, so this matters. Each approved photograph is then produced in several sizes and formats, and one reduced master copy is kept privately for moderation. The master is never served publicly.
Is my email address or phone number visible?
No. Email addresses and telephone numbers are never shown on profiles, and members are asked not to put contact details in a profile or a first message.
Your network address is stored only as a keyed hash, used for rate limiting and abuse prevention rather than kept in the clear.
What does it cost?
Registration is free, for members and for visitors browsing the directory.
Who can join?
Adults only — you must be 18 or over, and every account belongs to one real person. Anyone can list: female, trans and male companions each have their own part of the directory.
The directory covers 26 areas across Dubai, and you choose the area you are based in.
How do I report a profile or a member?
There is a report link on every profile and inside every conversation. Reports go straight to our moderators and are confidential.
Use that rather than the general contact form, so a complaint about a member does not sit in a general inbox. You can block someone at the same time.
Reporting a profile or a member goes through the “Report” link on that profile or conversation, not through this page — those reach our moderators directly and stay confidential.