The information requested from you at the time of purchase is considered the minimum required to process your order efficiently. We will take a contact telephone number in case we need to contact you regarding your order. We may also need to pass your telephone number on to our courier company to facilitate delivery. We will not pass on your telephone number to any other third party.

You have the option to 'stay in touch' with us by registering to receive emails from Rural Living, or its associated companies, via e-mail. This information is likely to include any special offers and promotions as well as information we believe you may be interested in such as articles or features about the British countryside.

Rural Living endeavours to work to the highest ethical standards and maintain excellent customer care. We may in exceptional circumstances wish to make information and/or offers from other companies or organisations of a similar ethical and service standard available to our customers. For this reason, when you register your details with us we will ask you whether you are happy for your details to be passed on to third parties.

Use of 'Cookies'

We use cookies as part of the technology to hold the contents of your shopping basket during your visit to our website. This session cookie is normally removed as soon as you leave our website and close your browser window, without storing any information onto your own system. You do however have the option at the checkout stage to 'remember me' so as to reduce the amount of information that may be required on subsequent orders from our site. If you choose this option a cookie will remain on your pc after the initial session has ended.