No venue can pay for a place
Venues can pay us for tools, never for a higher place in results, on the site or in the app. When friends decide together with Gather, the pick is chosen on how well it fits the group, and nothing else.
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 the checks in our code that keep us to them.
Every claim here is one we actually keep.
Un-buyable No venue can pay for a place, anywhere
Was there
Every review shows whether we saw the visit
Unpaid Nobody is rewarded for writing a review
Only if asked Marketing email only when you ask for it
Our promises
Six things we will not compromise
Not rules we hope to follow. The way the product is built.
Every review shows whether we saw the visit
A table that ordered and paid, a takeaway the venue handed over or a booking the venue scanned at the door reads Was there, and a party the venue confirmed reads Verified party. A visit recorded only from a phone reads Checked in, because a phone can be fooled. No record, no mark.
Nobody is paid to review
Writing a review earns nothing: no Bites, no prizes, no discounts. People write them because they have something to say, and that is the only kind worth reading.
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
You only get marketing email when you ask for it. The newsletter you sign up for is confirmed by email before we send a thing, every newsletter carries a one-click unsubscribe that works at once, there is a cap on how often we write, and we never bought your address.
Your data is yours
We do not sell your data and we show no third-party advertising. Google Analytics runs only if you accept cookies. Our own visit counter uses a first-party cookie that never leaves CyprusBites. The full detail is in our privacy policy.
The Integrity Guard
A promise we let the code enforce
The promises we trust least to willpower are checked by the code instead. A test runs every time a CyprusBites release is built, and it refuses to let the release through unless these hold.
1
Money cannot pick for a group
The part that chooses a group's place cannot read whether a venue pays us, and neither can the shortlist it chooses from.
2
A plan cannot buy a place
A venue's plan unlocks tools and nothing else. If a change ever let a plan write a ranking score or fill a sponsored slot, the release would not build.
3
A quote stays sealed
When you ask several venues for a party or stay price, each one quotes without seeing the others, so they compete for you rather than against each other.
The bottom line
If any of those broke, the release would simply not ship. That is what we mean when we say no venue can buy its way up. 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.