Bites

Terms of Service

Last updated: 6 September 2026

These terms are the agreement between you and Dylan Steiner ("Bites", "we") for use of the Bites app. By creating an account or using the app, you accept them. If you do not accept them, please do not use Bites.

1. Who may use Bites

You must be at least 13 years old. You need one account, registered with accurate details, and you are responsible for what happens under it — so keep your password to yourself. Your display name is unique and public.

2. What Bites is (and is not)

Bites collects prices reported by ordinary people. It is a guide, not a guarantee. Prices change, restaurants change their menus, and people make mistakes when typing. Always check the actual price before you buy. Bites is not responsible for a price being out of date or wrong, and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting for any of the restaurants or businesses that appear in it. Business names and details come from Google Maps and remain the property of their owners.

3. Your content

What you post — prices, ratings, reviews, photos, comments — stays yours. By posting it you give Bites a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to display, store and distribute it inside the app and its related services, so that other people can see it. That licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for the anonymised price records described in the Privacy Policy.

Only post photos you took yourself or have the right to use, and only report prices you actually saw.

4. Zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive behaviour

You may not post, upload or send anything that:

• is hateful, or attacks or demeans anyone based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or any similar characteristic;
• harasses, bullies, threatens, intimidates or targets another person;
• is sexually explicit, or sexualises a child in any way whatsoever;
• is violent, graphic or promotes self-harm;
• is spam, an advert, a scam, or a deliberately fake price;
• impersonates someone else, or misrepresents who you are;
• is illegal, or infringes anyone's copyright, trade mark or privacy;
• contains someone else's personal information posted without their consent.

You also may not scrape or bulk-extract data from Bites, attempt to break its security, or use it to build a competing dataset.

5. Reporting, blocking and moderation

Every post and every profile in Bites carries a Report option. Reports are reviewed within 24 hours. Content that breaks section 4 is removed, and the account responsible is warned, suspended or banned depending on how serious it is.

You can also block anyone, from their profile or straight after reporting them. A blocked person's posts and comments disappear from your view of Bites, and yours disappear from theirs. Blocks can be reviewed and undone under Settings → Blocked Accounts.

Bites additionally filters submitted text automatically and refuses to store the most obviously unacceptable language. That filter is a first line of defence, not a substitute for reporting — please report anything it misses.

To report something outside the app, or to raise something urgent, email bites.snacking@gmail.com.

6. Ending your account

You can delete your account at any time from Settings → Delete My Account. We may suspend or terminate an account that breaks these terms, or that is being used to harm other people or the integrity of the price data.

7. Availability and changes

Bites is provided "as is". It is an early-stage app run by one person; it may be unavailable, may change, and features may be added or removed. We will give notice of significant changes to these terms in the app, and the date at the top will be updated.

8. Liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Bites is not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for any loss arising from a price being inaccurate or out of date, from content posted by other users, or from a restaurant's conduct. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including under the Consumer Protection Act, 2008.

9. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of South Africa, and the South African courts have jurisdiction.

10. If you installed Bites from the Apple App Store

These additional terms apply, and Apple requires that they be stated:

• This agreement is between you and Bites only, not with Apple. Apple is not responsible for the app or its content.
• Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support for the app.
• If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price (if any). Apple has no other warranty obligation, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to a failure to conform to a warranty are our responsibility, not Apple's.
• Apple is not responsible for addressing any claim by you or a third party relating to the app, including product liability claims, claims that the app fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer protection or similar legislation.
• If a third party claims the app infringes their intellectual property, we, not Apple, are responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of that claim.
• You confirm you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of this agreement and, upon your acceptance, will have the right to enforce it against you.

11. Contact

bites.snacking@gmail.com

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