A little confused regarding contacts on my wife's iPhone.

On my wife's phone (3GS), all her contacts are in the section iCloud contacts. As far as I am aware she doesn't use ( or not knowingly ) iCloud. Her email is a Gmail account.
Where should her contacts be ? On the iMac, they are under her login. I guess my question is how should they be set up so she doesn't lose them, or how is best to set them up on her iPhone ?

The thing to remember with icloud is, the apple id she signs into icloud with, on the phone, settings>icloud that information will be merged w/ any other device signed in with the same apple id. so if the mac is using a apple id all she needs to do is sign in on the iphone, using same apple id, and merge the info, that way, going forward, any new contacts she adds will sync up to the cloud, and come back down on all the devices signed in w/ that apple id.
If she does not want to merge the contacts, you can create a new apple id, for icloud, in settings>icloud
best way to ensure she does not loose her contacts, is to create a back up. you can use icloud or itunes..

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