Privacy Notice

This notice explains the limited information the TT Cigars website processes when you visit: the age confirmation, the approximate connection-country lookup, the physical-country declaration you may make, and enquiries you send. It is a notice about actual website behaviour, not a consent form — reading it does not consent to tracking or marketing.

When you confirm that you meet the applicable legal-age requirement, the site stores a signed session confirmation in your browser. The confirmation records the time, the policy revision you confirmed, the country you declared (if any) and a signature bound to your connection IP address. It is a session cookie: it disappears when you close the browser and, in any case, is not accepted after twelve hours. If your connection IP changes, you may be asked to confirm again.

To present age information suited to your connection, the site looks up an approximate country for your IP address. Lookups go to proxycheck.io (which may also indicate whether the connection is a VPN or proxy) with ipwho.is as a country-only fallback; a trusted network edge header is used when lookups are unavailable. Results are cached per IP for up to twelve hours. The lookup providers receive your connection IP under their own terms. A VPN/proxy indication is shown only as an advisory and never blocks your confirmation.

You may confirm or change a physical country or region on the age screen. That selection is a declaration — it is not verified by GPS or any precise-location service, is recorded only inside the signed confirmation, and does not choose the language or the shop directory filter. Selecting no country is permitted; the site then uses general legal-age wording.

The age screen does not ask for a date of birth, an identity document, an account, an email address or precise geolocation, and it never requests browser geolocation automatically. No advertising or analytics identifier is set by the gate.

The twelve-hour confirmation and lookup cache govern the browser cookie and the site cache only. Web-server, edge-network, security and lookup-provider logs keep their own retention schedules, which this notice does not control and does not claim to shorten. Where a verified provider retention statement exists it is linked from the published record.

If you contact us we use your message and contact details only to respond and to operate the site, under applicable data-protection law. You may ask what information we hold about you or request its correction or deletion through the contact page. Your statutory privacy rights are not affected by this notice or by any website term.