Donations are only available if Compare the Market are able to link your insurance purchase directly to Give as you Live. Please ensure that you click on the link, finish a brand a new quote via Compare the Market and complete the purchase within the same session without exiting or closing your internet browser. Donations are not available on policies purchases through saved quotes or if using a promotional/voucher code not posted and approved by Give as you Live. Purchases must be completed immediately and fully online. The merchant reserves all rights to take action (including legal action) as is considered necessary in its sole discretion in order to prevent or redress any fraudulent or otherwise unlawful use of their website. Donation rates are subject to change and may increase or decrease at any time. Transactions will initially show as pending and will be validated 90 days after the policy start date. If your donation has not tracked, Compare the Market allow up to 6 months after the purchase date to submit a claim. All policies are run through extensive validation checks and donations are only available on valid policies. The eligibility is checked 90 days after the policy start date. Donations may only apply to the sale price and not include VAT, delivery and other such costs. Please do not use voucher codes from other websites as this may affect your donation. Comparethemarket is a UK price comparison website, founded in 2006, that is part of the BGL Group. The website also offers other on-line companies the ability to provide their customers with a co-branded or white labelled comparison service.[1] In 2009, the company launched an advertising campaign featuring a series of meerkat characters, after which it became the third-largest price comparison website in the UK.[citation needed] The website was set up by Budget Group (now BGL Group) in early 2006,[2] following a decision to sell its high street business to Swinton.[3] In 2012, Comparethemarket.com.au launched its comparison service in Australia. The Australian company's television advertisements also feature the meerkat characters Aleksandr Orlov and his Head of IT, Sergei. However, these ads differ from the UK's, with one such storyline revealing the meerkats have purchased comparethemarket.com.au. In September 2017, it was announced the company was under investigation by the competition regulator surrounding allegations regarding most favoured nation clauses with home insurance providers.[4][5][6] Comparison productsComparethemarket allows customers to compare prices on a number of insurance products including car, home, van, life, pet, travel and over 50s insurance. It has also expanded in to the comparison of items that can be switched such as energy/utilities, broadband and digital TV, as well as a range of financial products such as loans, credit cards, current accounts and mortgages. Compare the Meerkat campaignThe "Aleksandr Orlov" meerkat character used in the company's advertising since 2009 On 5 January 2009, the company launched an advertising campaign featuring a CGI meerkat character named "Aleksandr Orlov"[7] who pleads with viewers looking for cheap car insurance to stop confusing his meerkat comparison website comparethemeerkat.com with comparethemarket.com, due to the similarity between the words meerkat and market. As part of the campaign, Comparethemeerkat.com was created which does indeed allow visitors to compare meerkats,[8] until its closure on November 18, 2023. On 26 November 2012, the website started sponsoring the long-running soap opera Coronation Street on ITV in a three-year deal, costing around £30 million.[9] Other advertsIn December 2012 another advert was launched this time featuring Maurice Wigglethorpe-Throom (played by Robert Webb) the founder of Compare the Market and his assistant Spencer who find out about Aleksandr (who makes a cameo appearance in a photograph) and Compare the Meerkat. ControversyIn 2018, the BBC reported that the CMA found “most favoured nation” clauses in Comparethemarket's contracts with insurance companies which effectively banned them from selling their home insurance at cheaper prices on rival websites.[10] The CMA chief executive, Andrea Coscelli, said: “Our investigation has provisionally found that Comparethemarket has broken the law by preventing home insurers from offering lower prices elsewhere. This could result in people paying higher premiums than they need to.” In November 2020 Comparethemarket was fined £17.9 million by the Competition and Markets Authority for breaking competition law as a result of their investigations.[11][12]
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