The group's pick cannot be bought
When a group decides together with Gather, the place everyone is steered to is chosen on how well it fits the group, and nothing else. No venue can pay to be the answer.
How we keep it honest
Built to be on your side
Most apps ask you to trust them. We would rather show you. These are the promises CyprusBites is built on, and, where we can, the checks in the code that keep us to them.
Every claim here is one we actually keep.
Un-buyable
The group's pick cannot be paid for, ever
Opt-in twice
Before we send you a single marketing email
1 build check
Blocks any release where the pick could be bought
Zero trackers
No third-party advertising or tracking, anywhere
Our promises
Six things we will not compromise
Not rules we hope to follow. The way the product is built.
Our numbers are real
Where we use AI to summarise or suggest, it only narrates figures from real activity. It never invents a statistic, a trend, or a reason. No data behind something? We say so.
You only hear from us if you asked
Marketing email is opt-in twice over: you ask, then you confirm. Every message has a one-click unsubscribe, and it works instantly. We never bought your address.
We respect your attention
There is a cap on how often we will message you, and we would rather stay quiet than fill your inbox. Sometimes the best next message is none, and we are allowed to choose that.
Rewards are earned, not gamed
Bites and arrival status come from actually being there, verified, not from anyone declaring it. That keeps the perks fair for the people who show up.
Your data is yours
We do not sell your data, and there is no third-party advertising or tracking in the app or on the site. The full detail is in our privacy policy.
The Integrity Guard
A promise we let the code enforce
The un-buyable group pick is the one we trust least to willpower, so we do not rely on it. A test runs automatically every time we build CyprusBites, and it refuses to let a release through unless three things are true.
1
The chooser is blind to money
The part that decides a group's place is not even allowed to read whether a venue is sponsored, featured, or paying. It literally cannot see it.
2
The shortlist is blind to money
The list it chooses from is built with paid visibility switched off, so no venue can pay its way into the running either.
3
And it is wired that way for real
The check follows the wiring end to end, so a small change that quietly reconnected money to the result would fail the build, not slip through.
The bottom line
If any of those broke, the release would simply not ship. That is what we mean when we say the group's pick is un-buyable. It is not a marketing line, it is a build that fails without it.
Questions about any of this?
A real person answers. We are happy to explain anything on this page in more detail.