How BiteScore Works

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Scoring And Neutral Community Rewards

• The product score shown by BiteScore is calculated solely from eligible community rating contributions. Each rating is converted into a contribution score and weighted using the contributor's BiteScore level snapshot recorded when the contribution is submitted or edited; the displayed result is the weighted average of those contributions. It is not an editorial, manufacturer-provided, advertiser-selected or paid score.
• BiteScore scores, rankings, AI summaries and community opinions are subjective/informational outputs and can be incomplete, delayed or wrong. They are not a guarantee of quality, safety, availability or suitability.
• Always check the physical package, ingredients, allergen statement, nutrition table, expiry date, storage instructions and manufacturer notices. Formulas can change. Do not use BiteScore for allergy, diagnosis, treatment, diet or emergency decisions; consult a qualified professional.
• Third-party product data, barcodes and images may come from manufacturers, users or Open Food Facts. Rights and accuracy remain with their sources. Report suspected errors.
• Only products classified PUBLISHED and GENERAL_AUDIENCE may appear in the public catalogue, search, recommendations, lists, Clash, scoring or community surfaces. A restricted or review-required product may remain in an internal database but is not part of the member-facing service.
• BiteScore does not operate purchase, transaction, product-use or gifted-product verification for reviews and does not present a review as VERIFIED, UNVERIFIED or UNKNOWN. A rating or review is a community contribution, not proof of purchase, product use, contributor identity or how the product was obtained.
• Neutral in-service tasks may award BiteCoin or XP. When the server holds a concrete, known positive platform-task record, the review may show a separate rating-neutral task-reward disclosure; no-task, missing, malformed and legacy-unknown contexts show no badge. A reward never requires praise, changes no score weight or verifies a purchase, product use or gifted-product experience. Members may send virtual gifts through a separate social feature. Undisclosed third-party incentives, coordinated or manipulated reviews and automated ratings remain prohibited.

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BiteData Disabled State And Future Activation Conditions

BiteData business access and commercial product-intelligence delivery are not part of the currently active service. The name, internal models or dormant administration structures do not create permission to process or disclose data for an inactive purpose.

• No organisation or business user receives a BiteData dashboard, account, invitation, entitlement, export, API, alert, product metric, review text, excerpt, pseudonymous reference, demographic cohort, AI draft or other commercial output.
• Ordinary public reviews remain visible under the community features chosen by the member and may support core scoring, discovery, security and moderation. That ordinary processing is not a dormant commercial licence and does not make a contribution eligible for future BiteData use.
• No new BiteData demographic-consent presentation is issued and no birth year, demographic gender category or province code is collected for BiteData while this edition is current. A historical consent receipt, if any, proves only the historical decision it records and cannot authorise current or future BiteData processing.
• Activation cannot occur merely because a technical switch is changed or a user threshold is reached. Before activation BiteScore must publish new Terms, Privacy Notice and Community Rules, update the applicable App Store and Google Play privacy declarations, complete the recipient, processor and international-transfer controls, and obtain prospective acceptance before the new purpose begins.
• Where future demographic or other consent-based processing is proposed, BiteScore must issue a new, purpose-specific just-in-time presentation and collect a new freely given choice. Acceptance of this edition, an old demographic choice, telemetry consent or ordinary service use is not that permission.
• Reviews and other contributions created before activation will not be made commercially eligible retrospectively by the future switch or by acceptance of future general terms. Eligibility must arise prospectively from a contribution made through the updated, disclosed flow.
• A task-reward disclosure or a review's public availability is not permission to reuse the review, username, name, image or identity in advertising, influencer content or a testimonial. That requires a separate, purpose-specific and auditable lawful authorisation.