How does Address Book syncing work?

I have an Iphone 4 o/s5 and a MacBook Air.  Under iCal preferences you can choose how often it syncs to iCloud and pushes (I guess) to my Mac and Iphone.  But the Address book is kind of a mystery to me.  I thought it was working but then I made some changes and it didn't seem to register them.  So does one have to have Safari running in the background (i.e. being 'signed in' to the master iCloud account) all the time?  Just how does it work in order to have changes in both iCal AND any contact info in Address book push to all devices?  (I also have a Win7 machine with the iCloud console but get Itunes errors - haven't figured that out yet!)
Brenda

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