Withdrawal & Data Deletion
You can withdraw from the cohort at any time, before or during the four days. You can also request that your data be deleted at any time after — even years later. No reasons required, no negotiation.
How to withdraw before the cohort
Email zach@partingglass.org. One sentence is enough. We confirm by email within 48 hours, your seat is freed, and your prep-portal account is closed.
How to withdraw during the cohort
Tell the team. We’ll arrange a ride to Joplin Regional Airport (~1 hour from the lodge). Your departure is logistics, not a conversation you have to justify.
Anything you’ve already disclosed in sessions stays inside the cohort under the same confidentiality everyone else gets. The mandatory-reporting limits described in your consent form (imminent harm to self or others, active child abuse) still apply — those are state law, not PGF policy.
How to request data deletion
Email zach@partingglass.org with “data deletion” in the subject line. Within 30 days:
- Your prep-portal record (name, email, cohort assignment, completion timestamps) is deleted.
- Your screening, intake, and baseline form responses (held by Jotform under their HIPAA Business Associate Agreement) are deleted.
- Any signed consent documents are retained only as required by law, then deleted.
- Aggregate, de-identified outcome data — outcomes-research data that doesn’t name you and can’t be reconstructed back to you — may continue to be reported in summary form. This is the data that allows the program to prove itself; if you’d rather it not include your contributions even in de-identified form, say so in the deletion email and we’ll honor that.
We confirm completion by email when the deletion is done.
Withdrawal of data ≠ losing access to community
If you’ve gone through the cohort and later decide you don’t want your data used for outcome tracking, that’s your call. Telling us doesn’t remove you from the alumni community or from any future support PGF can offer. Operators are operators.
Questions
Email zach@partingglass.org. Zach reads everything.