A search for “hide home address Companies House” is rarely about paperwork alone. For an OnlyFans creator, a public home address can feel like an unacceptable price to pay for running a legitimate business. Privacy matters when your work is visible online, your income is growing and you want a clear boundary between your business life and where you live.

The good news is that Companies House does not normally publish a director’s residential address. The less good news is that company information is public by design, and the wrong address choices can still put your home on the record. The solution is not to ignore the rules or use an unsuitable address. It is to set the company up correctly from the start and fix any exposure quickly if your circumstances change.

What Companies House shows to the public

A limited company must have a registered office address. This is the company’s official address for legal notices and formal post, and it appears on the public Companies House register. If you use your flat or house as the registered office, anyone who searches the company can see it.

Directors also need to provide a service address. This is the correspondence address displayed on the public register. It can be the company registered office, an accountant’s approved address service or another suitable business address. It does not have to be where you live.

You must still give Companies House your usual residential address as a director. That address is kept on a protected register and is not made available for ordinary public searches. In practical terms, the key distinction is simple: your residential address is supplied privately, while the registered office and service address are public.

People with significant control, often called PSCs, face similar rules. Their residential address is protected, but their correspondence address is public. If you are the sole director and shareholder, it is easy to accidentally repeat your home address in several public fields unless the company is planned properly.

How to hide your home address at Companies House

The most reliable approach is to avoid using your home for any public company address from day one. Choose a legitimate registered office service and use an appropriate service address for each director and PSC. This gives your company a professional postal address while keeping your residential details off the public register.

This address must be real and suitable, not just a convenient label. Companies House requires an appropriate address where documents sent to the company would be expected to come to the attention of someone acting for it, and where delivery can be acknowledged. A PO Box on its own is not enough. Do not borrow a friend’s address or use an address provider that cannot properly deal with official post. Saving a small fee is not worth missed legal notices or a company compliance problem.

For creators, a registered office service is often the sensible choice. You may work from home, travel for content or prefer not to receive business post where you live. That does not stop you from using a separate public address. It simply means your company records reflect the privacy boundary you need.

Your company stationery, invoices and website should also show the registered office where the law requires it. This is another reason to choose an address service you are comfortable using publicly, rather than trying to keep changing details later.

Do not confuse a business address with a trading location

Using a registered office address does not mean you are pretending to work there. It is an official correspondence address, not a claim that your content is created at that location. You can run your business from home while keeping that home address private on the public register.

However, banks, payment providers, HMRC and other regulated organisations may still ask for your real residential address as part of identity checks. That information is not the same as placing it on Companies House. Be accurate wherever you are asked for it. Privacy should never mean giving false information.

If your home address is already public

If your home address is currently the registered office, act promptly. You can change the company’s registered office to a suitable new address. You can also change a director’s service address and a PSC’s correspondence address if those fields show your home.

A change prevents the old address being used going forward, but it does not automatically remove every historic document from the Companies House register. That is the part many business owners miss. Public filings can remain visible because Companies House preserves the company’s filing history.

There are processes to apply for the suppression of certain personal information from documents already on the register. Whether an application is available depends on the document, the type of information and when it was filed. In some cases, fees apply and the address may still be disclosed to specified public authorities where the law allows.

This is not a situation for guesswork. Check exactly where the address appears: the registered office history, director appointment forms, PSC filings and any documents uploaded later. Then take advice on the right correction or suppression route. Filing duplicate forms without a plan can create more confusing public history, not less.

If there is an immediate safety concern, keep records of it and obtain specialist legal advice alongside the Companies House process. Companies House privacy rules are useful, but they are not a substitute for dealing with a genuine safeguarding risk properly.

Your accountant should understand the difference

A generic accountant may know how to form a company but still treat address privacy as an afterthought. For OnlyFans creators, it should be part of the incorporation conversation before anything is filed. The choice of registered office, director service address and PSC correspondence address needs to be made alongside the wider questions: whether a limited company is right for you, how you will pay yourself, when VAT may apply and how platform income will be recorded.

Incorporation is not automatically the best answer just because your income has increased. A company creates more administration, annual accounts, Corporation Tax responsibilities and rules around taking money from the business. For some creators, remaining self-employed is simpler and more appropriate. For others, a company can support reinvestment, structured profit extraction and longer-term plans.

But if a company is the right move, privacy should not be treated as optional. Only Accountants UK works exclusively with creators in this space, so we understand why a public home address is not a minor inconvenience. We make the practical side clear before your incorporation is submitted, rather than leaving you to discover the consequences through a public search later.

Companies House privacy does not replace tax compliance

Keeping your address off the public register does not change your HMRC obligations. You still need to register correctly, keep accurate records, report income and expenses, and meet filing deadlines. If you operate through a company, the company needs its own bookkeeping and tax administration. If you are self-employed, the income still needs to be declared through Self Assessment.

There is also a useful privacy point here. HMRC tax returns are not public documents in the same way Companies House filings are. You must provide truthful details to HMRC, but that does not mean your personal address becomes searchable by subscribers, clients or strangers online.

Keep your business records organised from the beginning. Use a dedicated business email address, retain platform statements and payout records, and make sure your public company address is consistently used where required. This reduces the chance that an old home address appears on an invoice, a filing or a business profile by mistake.

A practical privacy checklist before you incorporate

Before filing, confirm that your registered office will not be your home, that every director service address and PSC correspondence address is suitable for public display, and that you understand how official post will reach you. Also check who is handling the incorporation and whether they have explained the ongoing company responsibilities, not just the formation fee.

After incorporation, search your company name yourself and review what is shown. Do the same after significant filings such as appointing a new director, updating PSC details or changing the registered office. A quick check is far easier than discovering a privacy issue months later.

Your home should not become the public-facing address of your business simply because setting up a company felt urgent. Get the structure right at the beginning, keep your real details accurate with the authorities that need them, and give yourself the privacy to focus on building a business on your own terms.