Leaving an OnlyFans agency Notice, account ownership and getting your logins back

To leave an OnlyFans agency, read your notice and exit terms first, then give notice in writing and agree the date the agency hands back your logins and stops posting or messaging as you. On that date, take back your email, change every password, turn on two-step verification and sign out every device you don’t recognise. Your account should be in your name, so if the agency won’t let go, the platform is where you turn.

In short

• Read the notice period and exit terms in your contract before you say anything.
• Give notice in writing, in the way the contract asks, and keep a copy.
• Agree a handover date: logins back, posting and messaging as you stop.
• Take back your email first, then each platform account.
• Change passwords, set up two-step verification and sign out every other device.
• Ask for a final statement of what you are owed, in writing.

What should you check before you give notice?

Find your contract and the terms the agency gave you when you joined. Look for:

• the notice period, and how notice must be given: email, letter or a form;
• the contract length, and whether it renews by itself;
• any fee for leaving early;
• who owns the accounts, logins and email;
• what happens after you leave: logins, content and fan lists;
• how and when your last payment is worked out.

If the contract says something different from what the agency told you, note the difference now. The written contract is usually what an agency will point to.

Whether notice, exit-fee and non-compete clauses can be enforced depends on where you live. If you are unsure, get advice from a lawyer or legal adviser in your country before you give notice.

Before you give notice, make a private copy of what you may need later: the contract, payment statements and your messages with the agency. Keep it somewhere the agency can’t reach, such as an email account or a device only you use.

How do you give notice?

In writing, in the way your contract asks for. A short message is enough. Say:

• that you are ending the agreement;
• the date your notice starts and the date it ends, by your count;
• that you want your logins back, and posting and messaging as you to stop, on that date;
• that you would like a final statement of what you are owed.

Keep it short, polite and factual. Save the message and any reply. If the agency calls you instead, send an email afterwards that sums up what was said.

Who owns your OnlyFans account?

You should. To open a creator account, OnlyFans’ terms ask you to upload a valid ID and two photos of yourself, and to add your own bank account or payment method. The terms also say that if someone else helps you run your account, you stay legally responsible for it, because OnlyFans’ relationship is with you, not with any third party.

An agency may run your account day to day. Running it is not owning it. Check that your contract says your accounts, logins and email stay yours. If it says something else, that is a question to ask before you sign the next one.

Can you sell or hand over your account?

Not under OnlyFans’ or Fanvue’s own terms. OnlyFans’ terms say: “You cannot transfer, assign, or subcontract your rights or obligations under any agreement with us.” Fanvue’s terms say that when you create an account you must not “Transfer or otherwise assign your Account to anyone else”.

So an agency that asks you to sign an account over, or to sell it, is asking for something the platform forbids. The account stays yours.

If someone pressures you, say no in writing and keep a copy. Report it to the platform’s support, and tell us through the report form. Our safety page explains what we can and can’t do.

Which logins do you need back?

Start with your email. Whoever controls the email address on an account can usually reset its password. The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns that criminals can use your email to get into many of your other accounts. Anyone who still has your email login can do the same.

List everything the agency could reach:

• the email addresses on your accounts;
• your OnlyFans, Fansly and other platform accounts;
• social media accounts you use for promotion;
• cloud storage or shared folders with your content;
• any phone number or authenticator app that receives your sign-in codes.

How do you take your accounts back, step by step?

Do this on the handover date. Do it sooner only if your contract allows it, or if you believe an account is being misused.

• Email first. Change the password. Check the recovery phone number and recovery email, and replace any that aren’t yours. An email provider’s account help advises a recovery phone that belongs only to you.
• Email rules. Check filters and forwarding rules. The NCSC says criminals add these to hacked accounts, so messages quietly go somewhere else.
• Two-step verification. Turn it on, or move it to your own phone or app. Remove any phone number, app or backup codes the agency set up.
• Platform accounts. Change each password, check the email and phone number on the account, and turn on two-step verification.
• Sessions. Sign out every device and app you don’t recognise. The NCSC advises logging all devices and apps out of an account you are taking back.
• Team access. Remove any team member or manager access the agency used.
• Promotion and storage. Repeat the same steps for social media accounts and shared folders.

Fansly has “Management Sessions”: you create a link with the permissions you choose, and payouts and closing the account are always excluded. You can remove a session from the Management page of your creator dashboard. On Fanvue, a manager account can’t reach payouts, change your email or password, or delete your account, and you invite it from Settings, Management. OnlyFans’ terms describe no team access, so on OnlyFans the only way to end an agency’s access is to change your password and email and sign out every device.

Use a new password for every account, and never reuse an old one. The NCSC suggests three random words, and a password manager to remember them.

What if the agency won’t give your account back?

Stay calm and keep evidence. Ask again in writing. Mention your contract and the date you gave notice.

If that doesn’t work:

• Contact the platform’s support. The NCSC’s advice is to start with the provider’s own help or support pages, because recovery steps differ from one service to another.
• Show that the account is yours: the email address it was opened with, the identity you signed up with and your contract.
• Keep screenshots of messages, of posts made after the handover date, of changes to your login details and of payouts.
• Don’t argue about it in public before your accounts are safe.

If someone threatens you, asks you for money or shares your content without your consent, contact the police where you live.

If intimate images of you are shared or threatened, StopNCII.org lets you create digital fingerprints of the images on your own device, without uploading them, so that partner platforms can detect and remove copies. In the UK, the Revenge Porn Helpline (0345 6000 459) supports adults whose intimate images were shared without consent. In the US, you can report online crime to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center at ic3.gov.

What about money the agency owes you?

That depends on how you are paid.

If the platform pays you directly, check that the payout details are yours and that the payout account is in your name. Nobody else should be able to change them.

If the agency pays you, ask for a final statement. It should show the period, the earnings it is based on, the agency’s share and the date you will be paid. Compare it with your contract. Keep every statement you receive.

If the agency withholds a final payment or deducts an exit fee, keep every statement and message, and check the rules where you live or ask a legal adviser in your country.

What should you do after you leave?

• Watch for sign-in alerts on your email and platform accounts for a few weeks.
• Read through the posts and messages sent around the handover date.
• Check again that only your phone and your app receive sign-in codes.
• Keep your copy of the contract and statements.

For the security habits that keep an account yours while you work with anyone, read our guide to account security with an agency.

How does this work on Crewvale?

Crewvale is a free marketplace where creators and cam models compare OnlyFans and webcam agencies on their published terms. Every agency publishes six terms before you get in touch: its share and what it covers, how you are paid, contract length, notice, who owns your accounts and what happens when you leave. Each term is shown as a value and as a plain sentence.

The Crewvale team reviews each agency’s six published terms and its commitment to check every creator’s ID and age before it is listed. Agencies that also submit a company registration document that passes the check carry the Verified badge, renewed every 12 months. Crewvale doesn’t review contracts and isn’t a party to any agreement, so compare the contract you are sent with the terms the agency published.

Crewvale is free for creators. No agency can pay to rank higher.

Before you sign with your next agency, check the contract with our contract checklist, or compare agencies on their terms.

Sources

UK National Cyber Security Centre, “Recovering a hacked account”, reviewed 24 August 2022, and “Top tips for staying secure online”, reviewed 21 December 2021 (ncsc.gov.uk). An email provider’s account help, pages on recovery details and on signed-in devices (no date shown). OnlyFans’ terms of service, last updated August 2024. Fansly’s help centre, “Management Sessions”, updated 1 December 2025. Fanvue’s help centre, “Manager Accounts” (no date shown). StopNCII.org. The Revenge Porn Helpline (UK). The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (ic3.gov). All read on 18 October 2026.

Last reviewed: 26 October 2026.