My girlfriends ex left this Mac computer behind on PURPOSE!  Can her ex still operate this computer?  I don't know the default keychain password or how to find it

Ok...so I am REALLY new to this whole Mac thing and my girlfriend knows less than I do about computers and phones, etc.  but I have been using her Mac computer and thought how cool it was until I synced my iphone to it and all of her ex's apps went on my phone so then I tried to find out how to get her ex's name and info off the computer and realized that just because the log in name is my girlfriends name...the computers name and all HIDDEN passwords and HIDDEN dates of when things have been changed.
Can this person have access to anything I have done on that computer?
How do I find the default keychain login?
How can I assure she cannot get any files or ANYTHING off this computer?
My girlfriend doesn't really want to lose her files like photos and iTunes but I am assuming since my girlfriend wasn't really ever the one "truly" logging in....
I don't know.
Need help for dummies here!

They were together living in this house for 7 years.  My girlfriend purchases the Mac.  Her girlfriend sets up the Mac.  They mutually break up and her girlfriend says "I put the computer in YOUR name" so don't worry... Go ahead and use it.  When I say she left it behind on purpose what I mean is the computer is in the ex's name bc she PUT it in her name ...like all the cloud stuff.  And sub accounts are in my gf's name...like ....user login.  But my gfs not really the administrator of this computer and her ex has 3 macs of her own that I (THINK) are attached to this "system".
I am SO new at this that I JUST created an account on this website to try to get help.  I own a business and have been using this computer not knowing that my girlfriend isn't the one who set her own computer up.  I know nothing about a Mac.  I don't know if someone who has another Mac on the system can transfer files?  I have been logging onto the computer under my gf's user name and password just to access what in my mind is known as the regular Internet.  My gmail...my business email login...passwords...bank account, ect.
I just want to ensure she can't access MY stuff.  I don't care about HER stuff!
I'm not a hacker!  ****....I didn't even know how to open up a new tab on the freaking thing until just a few months ago!  Lol

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