Necessary storage
Necessary storage supports security, consent preferences and core service operation. It is not used to build an advertising profile.
Analytics
Analytics, when enabled, helps us understand page use and improve decision tools. Events must not contain names, email addresses, phone numbers, postcodes or free-text enquiry messages.
Advertising
The Google tag uses Consent Mode with advertising storage, ad user data and ad personalisation denied by default. AdSense may load on a limited set of substantial editorial pages while those purposes remain denied, so limited advertising can appear without optional storage or personalisation consent. Search, error, form, alert, calculator, comparison, query and empty-data screens are excluded. Google may receive limited cookieless consent and measurement signals. UK, EEA and Swiss personalised advertising requires Google Privacy & Messaging or another Google-certified consent management platform supporting the applicable IAB framework.
External video
Learning Centre pages initially show locally hosted editorial posters rather than a third-party player. Pressing Load official video deliberately inserts a YouTube privacy-enhanced player. This creates a connection to Google/YouTube and may allow provider storage or measurement under its terms. Visitors can use the written source and CoolCompare next step without loading the player.
Change your choice
Use the Cookie settings control in the footer at any time to reopen the panel and change analytics separately from advertising storage and personalisation. Rejecting optional storage does not hide limited advertising on an eligible publisher-content page; it keeps the optional Google advertising purposes denied. When Google Privacy & Messaging is activated in AdSense, its privacy-options control provides the certified advertising-consent choices required for supported regions.
Last reviewed: 28 August 2026