diff --git a/code/Control/UserDefinedFormController.php b/code/Control/UserDefinedFormController.php
index eb277cd..9979e0d 100644
--- a/code/Control/UserDefinedFormController.php
+++ b/code/Control/UserDefinedFormController.php
@@ -256,6 +256,9 @@ JS
                 }
             }
 
+            // set visibility flag according to display rules
+            $submittedField->Displayed = $field->isDisplayed($data);
+
             if (!empty($data[$field->Name])) {
                 if (in_array(EditableFileField::class, $field->getClassAncestry())) {
                     if (!empty($_FILES[$field->Name]['name'])) {
@@ -305,6 +308,8 @@ JS
             $submittedFields->push($submittedField);
         }
 
+        $visibleSubmittedFields = $submittedFields->filter('Displayed', true);
+
         $emailData = [
             'Sender' => Security::getCurrentUser(),
             'HideFormData' => false,
@@ -350,6 +355,10 @@ JS
                 // This string substitution works for both HTML and plain text emails.
                 // $recipient->getEmailBodyContent() will retrieve the relevant version of the email
                 $emailData['Body'] = SSViewer::execute_string($recipient->getEmailBodyContent(), $mergeFields);
+                // only include visible fields if recipient visibility flag is set
+                if ((bool) $recipient->HideInvisibleFields) {
+                    $emailData['Fields'] = $visibleSubmittedFields;
+                }
 
                 // Push the template data to the Email's data
                 foreach ($emailData as $key => $value) {
diff --git a/code/Model/Recipient/EmailRecipient.php b/code/Model/Recipient/EmailRecipient.php
index 6a056d8..a132617 100644
--- a/code/Model/Recipient/EmailRecipient.php
+++ b/code/Model/Recipient/EmailRecipient.php
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ class EmailRecipient extends DataObject
         'EmailTemplate' => 'Varchar',
         'SendPlain' => 'Boolean',
         'HideFormData' => 'Boolean',
+        'HideInvisibleFields' => 'Boolean',
         'CustomRulesCondition' => 'Enum("And,Or")'
     ];
 
@@ -303,6 +304,10 @@ class EmailRecipient extends DataObject
                 'HideFormData',
                 _t('SilverStripe\\UserForms\\Model\\UserDefinedForm.HIDEFORMDATA', 'Hide form data from email?')
             ),
+            CheckboxField::create(
+                'HideInvisibleFields',
+                _t('SilverStripe\\UserForms\\Model\\UserDefinedForm.HIDEINVISIBLEFIELDS', 'Hide invisible fields from email?')
+            ),
             CheckboxField::create(
                 'SendPlain',
                 _t(
diff --git a/code/Model/Submission/SubmittedFormField.php b/code/Model/Submission/SubmittedFormField.php
index 60059a5..828d93b 100755
--- a/code/Model/Submission/SubmittedFormField.php
+++ b/code/Model/Submission/SubmittedFormField.php
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ class SubmittedFormField extends DataObject
     private static $db = [
         'Name' => 'Varchar',
         'Value' => 'Text',
-        'Title' => 'Varchar(255)'
+        'Title' => 'Varchar(255)',
+        'Displayed' => 'Boolean',
     ];
 
     private static $has_one = [
diff --git a/docs/en/userguide/form-submissions.md b/docs/en/userguide/form-submissions.md
index 794dae7..b74bcfc 100644
--- a/docs/en/userguide/form-submissions.md
+++ b/docs/en/userguide/form-submissions.md
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ In this field you can add a custom message to add to the email
 
 You can check this if you do not wish for the email recipient to see the form submission's data in the email.
 
+#### Hide invisible fields from email?
+
+You can check this if you want to hide the fields from the email that were invisible to the user according to the display rules set up for the form fields. 
+
 #### Send email as plain text?
 
 You can check this if you want to remove all of the HTML from the email, this means the email
diff --git a/lang/en.yml b/lang/en.yml
index 43ba9df..6be699c 100644
--- a/lang/en.yml
+++ b/lang/en.yml
@@ -277,6 +277,7 @@ en:
     EmailFromContent: 'The from address allows you to set who the email comes from. On most servers this will need to be set to an email address on the same domain name as your site. For example on yoursite.com the from address may need to be something@yoursite.com. You can however, set any email address you wish as the reply to address.'
     FROMADDRESS: 'Send email from'
     HIDEFORMDATA: 'Hide form data from email?'
+    HIDEINVISIBLEFIELDS: 'Hide invisible fields from email?'
     ORSELECTAFIELDTOUSEASFROM: '.. or select a field to use as reply to address'
     ORSELECTAFIELDTOUSEASTO: '.. or select a field to use as the to address'
     PLURALNAME: 'Base Pages'
diff --git a/templates/email/SubmittedFormEmailPlain.ss b/templates/email/SubmittedFormEmailPlain.ss
index 730842d..bbc15ec 100644
--- a/templates/email/SubmittedFormEmailPlain.ss
+++ b/templates/email/SubmittedFormEmailPlain.ss
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 $Body.RAW
 
 <% if not $HideFormData %>
-  *
-		<% loop $Fields %>
-			* <% if $Title %>$Title<% else %>$Name<% end_if %>
-			* $FormattedValue
-		<% end_loop %>
+	*
+	<% loop $Fields %>
+		* <% if $Title %>$Title<% else %>$Name<% end_if %>
+		* $FormattedValue
+	<% end_loop %>
 <% end_if %>