diff --git a/wherehows-web/app/utils/api/datasets/compliance.ts b/wherehows-web/app/utils/api/datasets/compliance.ts
index fbc1ffadc8..c73cdeb9c4 100644
--- a/wherehows-web/app/utils/api/datasets/compliance.ts
+++ b/wherehows-web/app/utils/api/datasets/compliance.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ import {
   IComplianceSuggestionResponse
 } from 'wherehows-web/typings/api/datasets/compliance';
 import { getJSON, postJSON } from 'wherehows-web/utils/api/fetcher';
+import { saveDatasetRetentionByUrn } from 'wherehows-web/utils/api/datasets/retention';
+import { extractRetentionFromComplianceInfo } from 'wherehows-web/utils/datasets/retention';
 
 /**
  * Constructs the dataset compliance url
@@ -87,8 +89,10 @@ const readDatasetComplianceByUrn = async (urn: string): Promise<IReadComplianceR
  * @param {IComplianceInfo} complianceInfo
  * @return {Promise<void>}
  */
-const saveDatasetComplianceByUrn = (urn: string, complianceInfo: IComplianceInfo): Promise<void> =>
-  postJSON<void>({ url: datasetComplianceUrlByUrn(urn), data: complianceInfo });
+const saveDatasetComplianceByUrn = async (urn: string, complianceInfo: IComplianceInfo): Promise<void> => {
+  await postJSON<void>({ url: datasetComplianceUrlByUrn(urn), data: complianceInfo });
+  await saveDatasetRetentionByUrn(urn, extractRetentionFromComplianceInfo(complianceInfo));
+};
 
 /**
  * Requests the compliance suggestions for a given dataset Id and returns the suggestion list
diff --git a/wherehows-web/app/utils/datasets/retention.ts b/wherehows-web/app/utils/datasets/retention.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..64d3ec0d03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/wherehows-web/app/utils/datasets/retention.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+import { IComplianceInfo } from 'wherehows-web/typings/api/datasets/compliance';
+import { IDatasetRetention } from 'wherehows-web/typings/api/datasets/retention';
+import { fleece } from 'wherehows-web/utils/object';
+
+/**
+ * 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 => {
+  const { datasetUrn, compliancePurgeNote, complianceType } = <IComplianceInfo>fleece<IComplianceInfo>([
+    'complianceType',
+    'compliancePurgeNote',
+    'datasetUrn'
+  ])(complianceInfo);
+
+  return {
+    purgeNote: compliancePurgeNote,
+    purgeType: complianceType,
+    datasetUrn: datasetUrn!
+  };
+};
+
+export { extractRetentionFromComplianceInfo };