During the registration, for example, in Hamburg, lower Saxony or North-Rhine-Westphalia "contact information" is not defined further, there are länder, such as Rhineland-Palatinate, want to know it exactly. Here, every guest must provide the name, address and phone number. In Bavaria, however, the Name and phone number of main person to satisfy, while demands in Saxony-Anhalt even in addition, the Mail address of the main person.

In Berlin, Brandenburg, Saxony or Thuringia, for example, it is left to the restaurateurs themselves, whether and what contact information you make a note of your guests, because in these States, the registration is not mandatory but only a recommendation. The Person

Tobias klingelhöfer is a lawyer and for many years as a legal expert for the ARAG operates. As a guest columnist for FOCUS Online, he informs consumers about their rights and obligations in different life situations.

About contact information, additional information, for example, the health condition of the guest or the question Covid-19-the symptoms cannot be queried. To advertising and the use of data purposes is not permitted.

Depending on the state, the registered data must be deleted after three or four weeks. It is not enough, however, to throw the paper in the trash. In Germany, the files need to be rather shredded in accordance with DIN-standard (DIN 66399), which is a challenge for many restaurateurs.

Whether correctly shredded or not, the issue of data protection must not come at the time of registration duty to be short and to the protection of personal data does not remain on the track. So restaurateurs are allowed to throw a glance in the identity card, to verify the information of the guest, but a copy or a photo of the card you must not make. Also open to out put list in which the contact details have to be entered corresponds to the General data protection regulation (DSGVO). Here the guest is allowed to refuse his data to be entered. Responsible restaurants for every budget in this form.

Who indicates in the Restaurant the wrong name, it must be expected that false statements are punishable according to the state of with a fine. But, above all, to play with his own health, because you can not be determined in the case of a Corona outbreak, and informed.

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