diff --git a/wherehows-web/app/components/dataset-compliance.ts b/wherehows-web/app/components/dataset-compliance.ts
index 9eeba4795c..9ed079cd50 100644
--- a/wherehows-web/app/components/dataset-compliance.ts
+++ b/wherehows-web/app/components/dataset-compliance.ts
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ import { isMetadataObject, jsonValuesMatch } from 'wherehows-web/utils/datasets/
 import { typeOf } from '@ember/utils';
 import { pick } from 'wherehows-web/utils/object';
 import { service } from '@ember-decorators/service';
+import { IDatasetRetention } from 'wherehows-web/typings/api/datasets/retention';
 
 const {
   complianceDataException,
@@ -141,6 +142,12 @@ export default class DatasetCompliance extends Component {
    */
   showGuidedComplianceEditMode: boolean = true;
 
+  /**
+   * Pass through object containing the retention policy
+   * @type {IDatasetRetention | null}
+   */
+  retentionPolicy: IDatasetRetention | null;
+
   /**
    * Pass through value for the dataset export policy, to be used by one of our child components on
    * this page
@@ -1450,14 +1457,10 @@ export default class DatasetCompliance extends Component {
     onDatasetPurgePolicyChange(
       this: DatasetCompliance,
       purgePolicy: PurgePolicy
-    ): IComplianceInfo['complianceType'] | null {
-      const complianceInfo = get(this, 'complianceInfo');
+    ): IDatasetRetention['purgeType'] | null {
+      const retentionPolicy = get(this, 'retentionPolicy');
 
-      if (!complianceInfo) {
-        return null;
-      }
-      // directly set the complianceType to the updated value
-      return set(complianceInfo, 'complianceType', purgePolicy);
+      return retentionPolicy ? set(retentionPolicy, 'purgeType', purgePolicy) : null;
     },
 
     /**
diff --git a/wherehows-web/app/components/datasets/containers/dataset-compliance.ts b/wherehows-web/app/components/datasets/containers/dataset-compliance.ts
index d678206c37..feb5522184 100644
--- a/wherehows-web/app/components/datasets/containers/dataset-compliance.ts
+++ b/wherehows-web/app/components/datasets/containers/dataset-compliance.ts
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ import { typeOf } from '@ember/utils';
 import { service } from '@ember-decorators/service';
 import { containerDataSource } from 'wherehows-web/utils/components/containers/data-source';
 import { saveDatasetRetentionByUrn, readDatasetRetentionByUrn } from 'wherehows-web/utils/api/datasets/retention';
-import { extractRetentionFromComplianceInfo } from 'wherehows-web/utils/datasets/retention';
 import { IDatasetRetention, IGetDatasetRetentionResponse } from 'wherehows-web/typings/api/datasets/retention';
 import { readUpstreamDatasetsByUrn } from 'wherehows-web/utils/api/datasets/lineage';
 import { LineageList } from 'wherehows-web/typings/api/datasets/relationships';
@@ -245,6 +244,14 @@ export default class DatasetComplianceContainer extends Component {
     });
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Resets the retention policy to the persisted state
+   * @type {() => void}
+   */
+  resetRetentionPolicy(): void {
+    get(this, 'getRetentionPolicyTask').perform();
+  }
+
   /**
    * Reads the compliance properties for the dataset
    * @type {Task<Promise<IReadComplianceResult>, (a?: any) => TaskInstance<Promise<IReadComplianceResult>>>}
@@ -263,6 +270,19 @@ export default class DatasetComplianceContainer extends Component {
     setProperties(this, { isNewComplianceInfo, complianceInfo });
   });
 
+  /**
+   * Reads the retention policy for the dataset and saves items to a property on the container
+   * @type {Task<Promise<IGetDatasetRetentionResponse>, () => TaskInstance<Promise<IGetDatasetRetentionResponse>>>}
+   */
+  getRetentionPolicyTask = task(function*(
+    this: DatasetComplianceContainer
+  ): IterableIterator<Promise<IGetDatasetRetentionResponse | null>> {
+    const retentionResponse = yield readDatasetRetentionByUrn(get(this, 'urn'));
+
+    const retentionPolicy = retentionResponse && retentionResponse.retentionPolicy;
+    set(this, 'retentionPolicy', retentionPolicy);
+  }).restartable();
+
   /**
    * Reads the export policy properties for the dataset
    * @type {Task<Promise<IDatasetExportPolicy>, (a?: any) => TaskInstance<Promise<IDatasetExportPolicy>>>}
@@ -366,22 +386,12 @@ export default class DatasetComplianceContainer extends Component {
    */
   @action
   async saveRetentionPolicy(this: DatasetComplianceContainer): Promise<void> {
-    const complianceInfo = get(this, 'complianceInfo');
-    if (complianceInfo) {
-      const { complianceEntities } = complianceInfo;
+    const retentionPolicy = get(this, 'retentionPolicy');
 
-      await this.notifyOnSave<IDatasetRetention>(
-        saveDatasetRetentionByUrn(
-          this.urn,
-          extractRetentionFromComplianceInfo({
-            ...complianceInfo,
-            // filter out readonly entities, then omit readonly attribute from remaining entities before save
-            complianceEntities: removeReadonlyAttr(editableTags(complianceEntities))
-          })
-        )
-      );
+    if (retentionPolicy) {
+      await this.notifyOnSave<IDatasetRetention>(saveDatasetRetentionByUrn(this.urn, retentionPolicy));
 
-      this.resetPrivacyCompliancePolicy.call(this);
+      this.resetRetentionPolicy();
     }
   }
 
@@ -405,6 +415,15 @@ export default class DatasetComplianceContainer extends Component {
     get(this, 'getComplianceTask').perform();
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Calls the reset on all compliance related actions
+   */
+  @action
+  resetAll(): void {
+    this.actions.resetPrivacyCompliancePolicy.call(this);
+    this.resetRetentionPolicy();
+  }
+
   /**
    * Invokes external action if compliance info is new or otherwise
    * @param {boolean} isNewComplianceInfo flag indicating the policy does not exist remotely
diff --git a/wherehows-web/app/templates/components/dataset-compliance.hbs b/wherehows-web/app/templates/components/dataset-compliance.hbs
index 1e19586b6c..2dc3f8a14a 100644
--- a/wherehows-web/app/templates/components/dataset-compliance.hbs
+++ b/wherehows-web/app/templates/components/dataset-compliance.hbs
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@
             missingPolicyText="This dataset does not have a current compliance purge policy."
             supportedPurgePolicies=supportedPurgePolicies
             purgeNote=complianceInfo.compliancePurgeNote
-            purgePolicy=(readonly (if retentionPolicy retentionPolicy.purgeType complianceInfo.complianceType))
+            purgePolicy=(readonly retentionPolicy.purgeType)
             onPolicyChange=(action "onDatasetPurgePolicyChange")
           }}
 
diff --git a/wherehows-web/app/templates/components/datasets/containers/dataset-compliance.hbs b/wherehows-web/app/templates/components/datasets/containers/dataset-compliance.hbs
index 7dd7fd5b45..e6cf35072b 100644
--- a/wherehows-web/app/templates/components/datasets/containers/dataset-compliance.hbs
+++ b/wherehows-web/app/templates/components/datasets/containers/dataset-compliance.hbs
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
       onSave=(action "savePrivacyCompliancePolicy")
       onSaveRetentionPolicy=(action "saveRetentionPolicy")
       onSaveExportPolicy=(action "saveExportPolicy")
-      onReset=(action "resetPrivacyCompliancePolicy")
+      onReset=(action "resetAll")
       onComplianceJsonUpdate=(action "onComplianceJsonUpdate")
     }}
 
diff --git a/wherehows-web/app/utils/datasets/retention.ts b/wherehows-web/app/utils/datasets/retention.ts
index 60dcfdf9d4..ad25ee5722 100644
--- a/wherehows-web/app/utils/datasets/retention.ts
+++ b/wherehows-web/app/utils/datasets/retention.ts
@@ -1,26 +1,5 @@
 import { IComplianceInfo } from 'wherehows-web/typings/api/datasets/compliance';
-import { IDatasetRetention } from 'wherehows-web/typings/api/datasets/retention';
 import { nullify, Nullify, Omit, pick } from 'wherehows-web/utils/object';
-import { isExempt } from 'wherehows-web/constants';
-
-/**
- * Extracts values from an IComplianceInfo instance to create an instance of IDatasetRetention
- * @param {IComplianceInfo} complianceInfo the compliance info object
- * @returns {IDatasetRetention}
- */
-const extractRetentionFromComplianceInfo = (complianceInfo: IComplianceInfo): IDatasetRetention => {
-  let { datasetUrn, compliancePurgeNote, complianceType } = pick(complianceInfo, [
-    'complianceType',
-    'compliancePurgeNote',
-    'datasetUrn'
-  ]);
-
-  return {
-    purgeNote: complianceType && isExempt(complianceType) ? compliancePurgeNote : '',
-    purgeType: complianceType,
-    datasetUrn: datasetUrn!
-  };
-};
 
 /**
  * Makes values in IComplianceInfo that are present / have a corollary in IDatasetRetention type null i.e. keys
@@ -38,4 +17,4 @@ const nullifyRetentionFieldsOnComplianceInfo = (
   ...nullify(pick(complianceInfo, ['complianceType', 'compliancePurgeNote']))
 });
 
-export { extractRetentionFromComplianceInfo, nullifyRetentionFieldsOnComplianceInfo };
+export { nullifyRetentionFieldsOnComplianceInfo };