Privacy Policy
Effective date: June 29, 2026
Overview
Ashbook ("Ashbook," "the App") is developed by Adelyons Software LLC ("we," "us," or "our"). Ashbook is a premium, local-first, no-account cigar humidor, collection tracker, and tasting journal. It lets you catalog every cigar, monitor each humidor's climate, track aging and "ready to smoke" timelines, follow your collection's value, and keep a structured tasting journal. This policy explains how the App handles your information.
The short version: Ashbook is local-first. There is no account, no login, no cloud, and no server. Everything you enter — your cigars, humidors, climate logs, tasting notes, photos, and value/manifest data — is stored only on your device and never leaves the phone. The single exception is purchase and subscription data, which is handled by Apple, Google, and RevenueCat solely to validate an optional Ashbook+ purchase. We never receive, sell, or have access to your collection data.
For adults of legal smoking age. Ashbook is an inventory and journaling tool for personal cigar collections. It does not sell tobacco, facilitate any purchase, or provide health advice. It is intended for adults of legal smoking age.
Information Stored On Your Device
The following is created and stored locally on your device only, in a private database (SQLite) within the App. It is not transmitted to us or to any server:
- Cigars & collection: Brand, line, vitola, ring gauge, length, wrapper, country, quantity, price, where-bought, box code, band photos you add, and notes for each stick.
- Humidors: Your humidor names, capacity, and configuration.
- Climate logs: The RH and temperature readings you record over time, plus drift alerts and Boveda recharge/re-season reminders computed from them.
- Aging & cellar status: Rest dates and the Resting → Maturing → Prime → Past-prime statuses derived from them.
- Tasting journal: Your ratings, tasting notes, flavor-wheel tags, and the palate profile and pairing suggestions derived from your own entries.
- Value & manifest: Per-stick cost, total humidor value, and any insurance/estate manifest you generate.
- Backups: The automatic on-device backup and any export files you create (JSON, and PDF/CSV manifests) that you save and share yourself.
- App settings & preferences: Your in-app preferences and display choices.
Because this data lives only on your device, it is removed when you delete an entry in the App, clear the App's data, or uninstall the App.
No Account, No Cloud, No Server
- Ashbook does not require you to create an account, sign in, or provide an email address, phone number, name, or any other identifier. There is no contacts grab.
- We do not operate a server that receives, stores, or backs up your data. There is no backend anywhere in the App.
- Your data is not synced between devices by us. If your device's operating system backs up app data (for example through iCloud or Android backup that you have enabled), that backup is controlled by you and your platform provider under their policies — not by us.
- Ashbook keeps an automatic on-device backup and lets you create your own export (JSON, plus PDF/CSV manifests) that you save and share yourself. Backup and restore are free for everyone and are never paywalled.
Insights Are Deterministic & On-Device — No AI Model
Every insight in Ashbook — humidor drift status, aging/"ready to smoke" status, collection value, your palate profile, and pairing and occasion suggestions — is produced by deterministic, rule-based logic that runs entirely on your device. Identical input always produces identical output. There is no language model, no AI model, and no model download anywhere in the App, and these features require no network connection and no API key. Nothing about your collection is sent anywhere to compute an insight.
Optional Purchases (Ashbook+)
Ashbook's core is free, with an optional Ashbook+ upgrade. Purchases are the only feature that involves any data leaving your device, and they are handled by trusted providers:
- Apple App Store / Google Play: When you subscribe or make the lifetime purchase, the transaction is processed entirely by Apple or Google under their own privacy policies. We never receive or store your payment-card details.
- RevenueCat: We use RevenueCat to validate and restore your Ashbook+ entitlement. RevenueCat receives a purchase token, an anonymous app-generated user identifier, and basic device and purchase metadata needed to deliver and restore your purchase. It does not receive any of your collection data — no cigars, humidors, climate logs, tasting notes, photos, value figures, or manifests. See RevenueCat's privacy policy.
If you never make a purchase, no purchase-related data is sent. Subscription terms (including the 7-day annual trial and auto-renewal) are described in our Terms of Service and EULA, and are also governed by Apple's Media Services Terms and Google Play's Terms of Service.
What We Do NOT Collect
- We do not collect, upload, or store your collection or any of your data on any server.
- We do not require an account, email address, phone number, name, or login, and we do not request access to your contacts.
- We do not collect location data.
- We do not use advertising identifiers or any cross-app tracking, and we do not show ads.
- We do not use third-party analytics or crash-reporting SDKs in the App that send your usage or personal data to us.
- We do not sell or rent your personal information to anyone. There is nothing for us to sell — your data stays on your phone.
Data Retention & Deletion
Because your cigars, humidors, climate logs, tasting notes, photos, value data, and backups are stored only on your device, you control them directly and they are kept for as long as you keep them:
- Delete in-app: Remove individual entries at any time, or clear the App's data from within the App or your device settings.
- Uninstall: Deleting the App from your device permanently removes all of its locally stored data. Because there is no server, there is no server-side copy to delete and no account to close.
- Purchase records: Subscription and purchase records held by Apple, Google, or RevenueCat are retained under their respective policies. You can manage or cancel a subscription from your device's store settings.
Security
Your data stays within the App's private storage on your device, protected by your device's operating system. Communication with the App Store, Google Play, and RevenueCat for purchase handling uses encrypted (TLS) connections. No system can guarantee absolute security, but keeping your data on-device means there is no central database of your collection to breach.
Children's Privacy
Ashbook is an adult product, intended only for adults of legal smoking age. It is not directed to children, and it does not request that children provide information to us. Because everything is local and there is no server, we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone — there is nowhere for such data to be sent to us. If you believe information somehow reached us (which our architecture is designed to prevent), contact us using the details below and we will help.
Your Rights
Privacy laws such as the GDPR (EU/EEA/UK) and CCPA/CPRA (California) give you rights to access, correct, delete, and port your personal data, and to opt out of its sale. Because Ashbook does not collect or store your personal data on our servers, we hold nothing about you to disclose, correct, or sell. You can exercise full control over your in-app data using the deletion and export options above. For any purchase data held by Apple, Google, or RevenueCat, contact those providers or reach us using the details below and we will help.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy as the App evolves. Material changes will be reflected by updating the "Effective date" above and, where appropriate, through an in-app notice. Continued use of the App after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.
Contact Us
Questions about this policy or your data? Email dev@adelyons.com.
Adelyons Software LLC
https://adelyons.com