Engagement Terms

What we provide

Social companionship and accompaniment at an agreed event, personally provided by the founder, for the agreed duration. This includes pre-event preparation, punctual arrival at an agreed public meeting point, courteous introductions, genuine social participation, and departure coordination.

The service is founder-led. There is no roster and no substitution. If the founder becomes unavailable, the engagement is cancelled and refunded in full rather than reassigned.

What we do not provide

The following are excluded absolutely and are not subject to negotiation, additional payment, or private arrangement:

• Sexual services or sexual contact of any kind
• Romantic promises, or the suggestion of a relationship
• Kissing or intimate physical conduct
• Hotel-room or shared-lodging companionship
• Private-residence meetings, other than a specifically approved hosted event
• Massage, cuddling, or any physical-intimacy service
• Anything illegal, or the facilitation of it
• Driving you, unless separately approved and insured
• Deception about identity, credentials, employment, engagement or marriage
• Legal advice, or an attorney-client relationship of any kind
• Therapy, medical care, security services or supervision of intoxication
• Secret recording, or publicity of any kind

Request and acceptance

Submitting a request does not create an engagement. An engagement exists only when we accept it in writing, and you make the reservation payment.

There is nothing for you to sign, and no box for you to tick. These terms are shown and linked at the payment step for you to read first, and making the reservation payment accepts them — the same way it works when you buy anything else. We record which version was in force at that moment so it can always be looked up.

We may decline any request without explanation. You may withdraw any request at any time before acceptance, at no cost.

Fees and payment

Every accepted request receives a versioned written quote with each line separately itemised. The quote governs; nothing is charged that does not appear on it.

Where the event is more than seven calendar days away, 50% of the total is payable to reserve the date. The remaining 50% is charged automatically to the same payment method on the day of the event. Where the event is seven calendar days away or fewer, the full amount is payable at the outset and there is no second charge.

By making the reservation payment you authorise the remaining balance to be charged to that payment method on the event date. If the engagement is cancelled by either party before that date, the balance is not charged.

A major-holiday or short-notice premium of 25% applies to the package fee only. The two premiums do not stack; where both would apply, one premium is charged.

No tips or gratuities are accepted. No payment is accepted in cash.

The Foundation treats the professional fee as payment for services and will not issue a charitable-contribution acknowledgment for that fee. Individual tax treatment may vary; consult your tax adviser.

Expenses

Professional fees exclude all third-party costs, including:

• Admission or event tickets
• Airfare, rail and ground transportation
• Hotel
• Meals outside those included at the event
• Visas or destination requirements
• Event-specific wardrobe beyond ordinary black tie or business formal
• Security requested by the client
• Other third-party costs approved in writing

If the evening runs longer than expected

If an evening runs longer than the hours in your package, the hourly fee begins, at 200 dollars per half hour.

Nobody is watching the clock. A few minutes either way is part of any evening and is not charged for. This is written down so that both parties know the answer in advance, rather than working it out at midnight.

Cancellation

The reservation payment holds a specific date. Once it is held, that date is declined to others, and because only a small number of engagements are possible each month it cannot realistically be filled again at short notice. The schedule below reflects that, and nothing more.

Within forty-eight hours of your reservation payment, a cancellation receives a full refund. This applies whenever the event was at least eight calendar days away when you paid.

After that window, and more than 21 calendar days before the event: the reservation is not refunded in cash, but its full value becomes a reschedule credit, usable once against another occasion within twelve months of the original event date.

Twenty-one calendar days before the event or fewer: the reservation is retained and no credit is issued.

In every case the balance is not charged. Because the balance is only ever taken on the day of the event, the reservation payment is the most you can lose by cancelling, and you know that amount from the moment you pay it.

If the Foundation cancels for any reason, you receive a full refund of the reservation and of any prepaid expenses, whenever it happens.

A reschedule credit may be used once, is not transferable, and applies against the price in effect when it is redeemed. You pay any increase; unused value is forfeited unless the law requires otherwise.

Conduct

These obligations apply equally to both parties.

The engagement is social companionship at a public or hosted event. It is never sexual and never romantic. Neither party may request, imply, or negotiate anything outside that boundary, before, during, or after an engagement.

Physical contact is ordinary social contact only — an offered arm, a hand at the back through a crowd, dancing where both parties are comfortable. Nothing intimate. Either party may decline any contact at any time without explanation.

Both parties will be truthful about the event, the venue, the host, who will be present, and their own identity. Neither will ask the other to lie about anything material.

The founder remains sufficiently unimpaired to exercise judgment and to leave safely, with a default maximum of two standard drinks across an engagement and none where driving, safety or destination circumstances warrant. Illegal substances are excluded absolutely, as is transporting any controlled substance or undisclosed property.

Neither party will record the other without express consent, publish anything about the engagement, or identify the other party publicly. Photographs consistent with ordinary event behaviour are expected and permitted; publicity is not.

Ending an engagement

Either party may end an engagement immediately, without refund obligation beyond the schedule above, for harassment, coercion, material intoxication, undisclosed participants, an unsafe venue, or a material change in the nature of the event. Doing so requires no negotiation and no justification beyond stating that it is happening.

Material misrepresentation about the event, the venue, the host, or the guest list is grounds for termination without refund.

Representation and introductions

The agreed public introduction may be "friend", "guest", or "plus-one". We will not adopt a fabricated biography or a false romantic, marital, professional or educational history.

Confidentiality

The founder does not discuss engagements. Not who, not where, not that one took place at all. That holds during the engagement and afterwards, without a time limit, and it holds whether or not you ask for it.

Three exceptions, stated plainly rather than buried: where the law compels disclosure, where someone's safety requires it, and the financial records the Foundation is obliged to keep as a charity — which record a transaction, not an evening.

Nothing about you is published without your separate written permission, given element by element and withdrawn the same way.

You are under no equivalent obligation. The evening is yours to describe to whoever you like.

If your circumstances call for something more formal, the founder will sign a non-disclosure agreement — yours, or one provided for you — before the engagement. There is no charge for it and no disadvantage to declining it.

No legal services

Plus One, Properly provides social-companionship and event-accompaniment services only. Anthony Clemenza does not provide legal services or legal advice through this initiative. No attorney-client relationship, attorney-client privilege or other protections associated with legal representation are created.

Timing and time zones

Booking and cancellation deadlines are measured on the America/New_York calendar. Event start and end times are stated in the venue's local time zone and are identified as such.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Foundation's aggregate liability arising from an engagement is limited to the professional fees you paid for that engagement. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles.