What to check in an OnlyFans agency contract

What should a contract with an OnlyFans agency include?

A good contract can be understood without help: it says who does what, until when and how it ends. Whatever they promise you on a call is worth little if it isn’t on paper.

This table goes through the clauses worth checking. The middle column describes what should be clear (it isn’t wording to copy); the right-hand column, what should make you stop.

Is there a standard OnlyFans agency contract template?

There’s no official contract template for working with an OnlyFans agency. Templates you find online don’t know your case, your country or what the agency really does; that’s why we don’t publish one. What helps is knowing what each point should say.

Don’t confuse it with OnlyFans’ own terms, either. You accept those when you open your account: they cover your relationship with the platform. The contract with the agency is a separate one, between you and the company that manages you.

Duration, renewal and exit: the first thing to read

Before the money, look at how it ends. A contract that’s easy to sign can be hard to leave if the exit isn’t written down.

Check that it says, in plain words:

• When it starts and when it ends, or whether it’s open-ended.
• Whether it renews automatically when it ends, and how you stop that.
• How you give notice that you’re leaving: in writing, to whom, how far in advance (the notice period).
• Whether there’s a minimum term you have to complete, and what happens if you leave early.
• What happens that day to access, to each account, to your Telegram channel, to content already posted or waiting to be posted.
• Whether the agency keeps charging anything after you leave: on what, and until when.

Is it normal for an OnlyFans agency to ask for exclusivity?

It can ask for it. The useful question isn’t whether it’s normal but what kind of exclusivity it is, because the word covers two very different things.

Exclusivity of services: you agree not to work with another agency while the contract lasts. Ask for it to say what it covers (your OnlyFans, your personal social media, other platforms), how long it lasts and what happens when it ends.

Exclusive transfer of your content: that’s something else. Spain’s Intellectual Property Law says an exclusive transfer has to be granted expressly as such; within what’s transferred, it lets the other party exploit the work to the exclusion of anyone else, including the person who transferred it (art. 48). In other words: whatever you transfer this way, you won’t be able to use it yourself within that scope either.

For works, the law sets two more limits: a blanket transfer of all the works you might create in the future is void (art. 43.3), and so is a commitment not to create any work in the future (art. 43.4). A contract that covers what you create for the service while it lasts is a different matter: any management arrangement needs that. If you see either of those two clauses, ask a lawyer before you sign.

What the agency can do on your behalf, and within what limits

To manage your account, the agency needs your permission to act for you: posting, uploading content, handling the chat. That permission should be in the contract: on which social networks, on which accounts, with what access, who uses it, how it’s withdrawn and how long it lasts (as long as the contract, not beyond it). Here’s more on what access to give and how to take it back.

Your limits go in the same document: what content you create and what you don’t; what gets sold in the chat; whether you accept custom requests or video calls; what goes to X, and what goes to Instagram, TikTok or Threads, where only content suitable for all audiences is allowed. If someone else handles your chat, those limits have to be written down before the first message (how chatting works within limits).

Who owns the content you create while working with an agency?

In principle, you do. Spain’s Intellectual Property Law gives the author the exclusive right to exploit their work: to reproduce it, distribute it, communicate it to the public and transform it (art. 17). Working with an agency doesn’t change that on its own; what you sign does.

If the contract transfers rights to the agency, for protected works the law limits the transfer to what the contract says about rights, uses, time and territory (art. 43.1); it also has to be done in writing (art. 45). If it doesn’t state the time, it’s limited to five years; if it doesn’t state the territory, to the country where the transfer is made; if it doesn’t spell out the uses, to whatever is essential for the purpose of the contract (art. 43.2).

One nuance: not every photo or video counts as a “work” under the law. Some photos follow other rules (art. 128), and so do some videos (arts. 120 and following). If the contract transfers rights, have a lawyer review it.

There’s another reason not to give away more than you need to: OnlyFans asks you to declare that you own your content or have the rights needed to post and monetize it. The sensible thing is to transfer only what the service needs, with a clear answer on what happens to each thing when the contract ends.

Can the agency use my photos after I leave?

It depends on what you signed. Two different things overlap here: the rights to your content, which we just covered, and your image, which is a separate right.

In Spain, the right to your own image can’t be waived, according to Organic Law 1/1982 (Ley Orgánica 1/1982, art. 1.3), which protects honor, privacy and personal image. What you give is your consent, which has to be express (art. 2.2). You can revoke that consent at any time, but you may have to compensate for any damages this causes, including justified expectations (art. 2.3). Using your name, your voice or your image for commercial purposes without your consent is an unlawful intrusion (art. 7.6).

Revoking your consent isn’t the same as ending the contract, or as getting back the rights to your content. That’s why the contract should say from the start what happens to what’s already been posted on the agency’s accounts when you leave: whether it’s taken down, how quickly, what can still be used and until when.

The same goes for your personal data: your ID, bank details, address. If the agency is in Spain, the GDPR (the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, known in Spain as the RGPD) requires it to tell you who it is, what it uses your data for, who it shares it with, how long it keeps it and what rights you have (art. 13). Once your data is no longer needed for the purposes it was collected for, you can ask for it to be erased (art. 17).

Which clauses in an agency contract are red flags?

You can spot these by reading the text. Just one is worth a question before you sign; if you see several, think twice:

• Vague services: “whatever it takes,” without saying who does what.
• Automatic renewal with no clear date and no way to stop it.
• An exit that isn’t written down or that depends on the agency accepting it.
• Permission to act on your behalf that stays in force after the contract ends, or that doesn’t say how it’s withdrawn.
• Your OnlyFans account opened in someone else’s name, or passing to the agency.
• Exclusivity that continues after the contract ends, or that doesn’t say what it covers.
• A blanket transfer of everything you might create in the future, including outside the service, or a commitment not to create.
• A transfer of your content with no limit on time, use or territory.
• Use of your image with no word on what happens to what’s been posted when you leave.
• Appendices or terms the contract refers to but that you’re never given.
• A confidentiality clause that stops you from showing the contract to your lawyer.

How Luzara Talent does it

At Luzara Talent, if we’re a good fit, we give you the plan and the conditions in writing before you start, and you read them at your own pace. Before you sign, we don’t ask you for anything: no passwords, no money.

By contract, you authorize us to act on your behalf on social media and on OnlyFans. The OnlyFans account is always yours: if you don’t have one yet, our team sets it up from scratch, in your name. This is what goes in writing:

• The plan. Chatting Premium: professional chatters handle your chat 24/7 while you keep running your own social media. Full Management, the one we recommend, adds everything else: promotion, your Telegram channel, content direction, professional editing, leak protection, tax information and recommendations, and a weekly dashboard.
• Your content and chat limits. Our chatters work within them: content you don’t want to sell doesn’t get sold.
• Who posts and from where. On Full Management, our team posts your content from the phone farm of more than 100 phones, with agency accounts on Instagram, TikTok, Threads and X; on the first three, only content suitable for all audiences. Behind every account there’s a real person from our team. Our team only runs your personal profile if you want it to.
• Your Telegram channel is opened in your name; if you leave the agency, it’s handled according to the contract.
• You can leave whenever you want, following the contract.