Terms of use
In force from September 4, 2026
Ligero is a cigar tasting journal and a public place where people publish what they thought of a cigar. It is made by Yevhenii Rubanov, and these terms are the agreement between you and Yevhenii Rubanov about using it. Read them before you create an account — creating one means you accept them.
Short version: the journal and the feed are free. Reserve is a paid subscription that renews by itself until you cancel it, and you cancel it in the store you bought it from, not here. What you publish stays yours. Be an adult, be decent, and do not trade tobacco.
1. The agreement
These terms, together with the house rules and the privacy policy, are the whole agreement about Ligero. The house rules are part of it and bind you the same way — they sit on their own page only because they are about how you treat other people, and that deserves one.
If you bought a subscription through the App Store or Google Play, that store's own terms also cover the payment itself. Where their billing terms and ours disagree about the payment, theirs win: they took the money, not us.
2. Who may use Ligero
You must be an adult and of legal smoking age where you live. Ligero is rated for adults, it is about tobacco, and there is no version of it for anyone younger. Accounts we find to belong to minors are deleted rather than warned.
Ligero does not sell tobacco, does not link to shops, carries no tobacco advertising, and does not encourage anyone to start smoking or to smoke more. It records something people already do.
3. Your account
You sign in with Apple on iPhone or with Google on Android. There is no password anywhere in the system, and we never see one.
If the same verified email address is on both, both phones lead to the same account — the same shelf, the same followers, the same subscription. That is deliberate.
If you chose to hide your email when signing in with Apple, Apple gives us a relay address that will never match your Google address, and signing in on Android then creates a separate account. We cannot join the two, because nothing tells us they are the same person.
The account is yours to look after. Tell us if you think somebody else is using it.
4. What is free
Tasting and keeping a journal are free and unlimited: record as many cigars as you like, write as much as you like, keep it as long as you like. Publishing reviews, reading the feed, following people and being followed are free too. We do not sell a place in the feed — a feed you have to pay to enter is an empty feed.
5. Ligero Reserve
Reserve is the paid subscription. It lifts the limit on how many cigars the humidor holds and the weekly limit on asking the sommelier — the two things that cost us storage and money per request. Everything else is free and stays free.
The price, the billing period and any introductory offer are shown on the subscription screen inside the app before you confirm, in your currency, as your store reports them. What is written there when you confirm is what applies.
6. Renewal, cancelling and refunds
Reserve renews by itself. Unless you cancel, it renews at the end of each period and your store charges you again at the price in force then. That is how subscriptions work in both stores, and deleting the app does not stop it.
You cancel in the store, not here. We cannot cancel it for you: we never touch your payment method.
- iPhone: Settings → your name → Subscriptions → Ligero → Cancel.
- Android: Google Play → your profile picture → Payments and subscriptions → Subscriptions → Ligero → Cancel.
Cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends, or the next charge may already have gone through. After cancelling, Reserve keeps working until the period you paid for runs out — nothing is taken away early.
Refunds are decided by the store under Apple's or Google's own rules. Ask them; write to us as well if something has gone wrong, because we would rather know.
If a payment fails or the subscription lapses, the app returns to the free tier. Nothing you wrote is deleted for that reason: the journal stays, and the humidor simply stops accepting new cigars past the free limit until there is room.
7. Your content
What you write and photograph stays yours. We claim no ownership of it.
To run the service we need permission to store it, show it to the people you published it to, and move it between your devices — nothing wider. So: by publishing a review you give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, copy and display it inside Ligero for as long as it stays published. That licence exists so the product can work. It does not let us sell your words, license them onward, or put them in advertising.
Private records are not covered by any of it, because they are not published. What is private stays private — the privacy policy says exactly what leaves your phone and when.
Delete a review and its licence ends. Delete your account and everything published under it goes with it.
8. How you behave here
The house rules apply in full. The two that end an account without a warning are selling or passing tobacco between people, and abusing anybody.
Beyond that: do not break the app on purpose, do not scrape it, do not try to reach other people's data, do not resell access, and do not use it to advertise.
9. The sommelier
The sommelier reads a cigar band from a photograph and answers questions about cigars. It is a helper, not an authority. It can misread a band and it can be wrong about a cigar, so check anything that matters. Nothing it says is advice about health, and neither is anything else in Ligero.
Photographs you send it are processed to answer that one request and are not used to train anyone's model. The detail is in the privacy policy.
10. Changes and availability
Ligero is a working product and it changes: things arrive, some leave. We will not quietly remove something you are paying for — if a paid capability goes, we will say so, and you will be able to cancel before the next charge.
We do not promise the service is never down. Maintenance happens, hosting fails, stores have outages. The journal itself lives on your phone and keeps working without us: that is why it was built that way.
11. Ending the agreement
End it whenever you like: delete the account in the app, and everything published under it goes. Cancel the subscription in your store as well — deleting an account does not cancel a subscription, because we do not control it.
We may suspend or delete an account that breaks the house rules or these terms. For anything short of the two rules with no second chance, we will normally warn first.
12. Who answers for what
Ligero is provided as it is. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or fit for a purpose you have in mind for it.
We answer for our own service and for what we do with your data. We do not answer for what other people publish, for what happens between you and them, for how a cigar turns out, or for anything you decide on the strength of what the app or another member told you.
Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud. Where liability can be limited, ours for any claim connected to Ligero is limited to what you paid us in the twelve months before it arose.
13. Law and disputes
These terms are governed by the law of Ukraine. If you are a consumer living elsewhere, that does not take away the protections your own country's law gives you, and you may bring a claim in your own courts.
Write to us first. Most things that look like disputes are misunderstandings, and email fixes them more cheaply than anything else.
14. Changes to these terms
When these terms change, the new version appears here with a new date. If a change materially affects you — the price, what Reserve includes, your rights over what you publish — we will say so in the app rather than leave you to find it. Using Ligero after a change means you accept it; if you do not, cancel and delete the account.
15. Reaching us
Yevhenii Rubanov · efsh49@gmail.com
Questions about the app, complaints about another member, requests about your data and anything about a subscription go to the same address, and a person reads them.