Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 10, 2026

The Cigar Events is a free national directory of cigar events operated by The Cigar Guys. We built it to need as little of your data as possible: there are no accounts, and the only advertising is Google ads on event pages. This page explains, in plain language, what little we handle and what Google handles on those pages.

The Cigar Events is operated by The Cigar Guys. We list cigar events — tastings, pairings, lounge nights and festivals. We do not sell tobacco, we do not sell tickets, and we are not affiliated with any manufacturer or venue.

• Event submissions. When you submit an event we collect exactly what you type into the form: the event name, dates, time, venue, address, city, type and description, and your email address. We use your email address only to contact you about updates to your listing, and it is never published or shown on the site. Your email address is not verified and does not create an account.
• Approximate location. Our hosting provider (Cloudflare) tells us the approximate city your connection appears to come from. We use it once, at page-load time, to pre-select a default city filter. We do not store it, and you can switch to any city (or everywhere) at any time.
• Rate-limit counters. To limit spam, we keep a counter of submissions per network address. Counters expire within an hour.
• Standard server logs. Cloudflare processes requests to serve the site and keeps operational logs per its own policies.
• Page-view analytics. Cloudflare Web Analytics records a view when a page loads: which page, the site that linked you here, your country, your device type, and how quickly the page rendered. It sets no cookies, does not fingerprint your browser and cannot follow you to other sites. We read it to see which pages are worth keeping and where the site is slow.

Apart from the email address you give with a submission, we do not collect names, contact details, payment details, precise location, or anything requiring an account — the site has no accounts. Our own page-view analytics above are cookieless and cannot identify you. The ads on event pages are Google’s and work differently; see Ads below.

The point of submitting an event is publication. The event details you enter in the submission form are published on the public directory — straight away when the link you give confirms the details, otherwise once a person has reviewed it. Your email address is the one exception: it is kept private and never published. Do not include personal information you don’t want public in the event details.

Submissions are screened automatically by an AI model (run on Cloudflare’s infrastructure) that checks whether the listing is a genuine cigar-related event. The text you submit is processed for that purpose only.

The site runs entirely on Cloudflare (hosting, database, and the moderation model). Event listings may link to third-party ticketing or organizer sites; those sites have their own privacy policies.

Event pages carry ads served by Google AdSense. The home page, the submit form and the rest of the site carry none. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies and similar identifiers to serve ads on event pages: Google and its partners may use them to show you ads based on your visits to this and other websites, and to measure those ads. Which ads appear is Google’s choice, not ours, and this part is governed by Google’s own policy: how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

You can turn off personalized advertising in Google’s Ads Settings, and opt out of other vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising at aboutads.info. Where the law requires it, Google asks for your consent before personalized ads are shown.

Published listings — including past events — are kept as a public record of the calendar. If you want a listing you submitted corrected or removed, email us and we’ll take care of it.

This site is about tobacco-related events and is not directed at children. If you believe a minor’s information appears here, contact us and we will remove it.

Depending on where you live (GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA and similar laws), you may have rights to access, correct, delete or port data relating to you. Given how little we hold, the fastest path is simply emailing us at events@thecigarguys.com.

If we change this policy we’ll update the date at the top. Material changes will be noted on the site.

Questions? Email events@thecigarguys.com.