How to get past the CORS No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin header' error with jQuery.ajax ?

How to get around the jQuery.ajax CORS and Jsonp callback problem?
I'm writing a solution in a WordPress plugin which requires an api GET call, and will later require POST too, from JavaScript.
My initial attempt resulted in a CORS policy block:

Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://app.xxxxx.com/api/pub/v1/contacts/528a34f9-dbc1-4c50-ad6b-a9f300e19ea9' from origin 'https://www.xxxx.co.uk' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource.

This is what the jQuery looked like:

function generateCandidate(cuid){
    console.log('Generating New Candidate');
    var api = my_api()
    var candUrl = "https://app.xxxx.com/api/pub/v1/contacts/" + cuid;
    var da = {
        api_key: api,
    }
    jQuery.ajax({
        url: candUrl,
        data: da,
        type: "application/json",
        method: 'GET',
        success: function(resp){
            console.log(resp);
        },
        error: function(err){
            console.log('Ajax ERROR:');
            console.log(err.toString());
        }
    });
}

So I did some research and discovered plenty of people were getting around the CORS issue by specifying the 'jsonp' type instead of json. So I tried replacing

        type: "application/json",

with

dataType: 'jsonp',

But then I discovered I need to specify a callback somehow, because the error I get is this:

jquery.js?ver=1.12.4:4 GET https://app.xxxx.com/api/pub/v1/contacts/528a34f9-dbc1-4c50-ad6b-a9f300e19ea9?callback=jQuery1124036525732914578746_1550866428904&_=1550866428905 net::ERR_ABORTED 404

I've read about how the callback can be sent to a function, and handled that way to make it work. But I can't find out what the function should do, or how to write it.
And I'm not sure if that's what I should be doing anyway, or if there's any way I can solve the CORS problem in a way it can be used publicly, and not just in my own browser.

Can anyone assist, or point me in the right direction to get this solved.

Many thanks
Tim