How to maintain privacy when three family members, with individual mail accounts enter the cloud?

After moving to iCloud, the emails (3 family users) became mixed.  All devices (ipad, iphone and imac) are all identified under my name while one family member utilizes the iphone, one the ipad while all three use the imac.  As administrator (or whatever) my email is my account designation while each of the other access their mail under separated addresses.  When accessing ipad mail, two of the accounts are easily accessible while the iphone email user remains separate.  I suppose that is ok but a bit confusing.  How can we as a family access and purchase using the same billing, etc. and still keep our personal email personal? The article in the latest issue of Macworld suggest it can be done.  Is there an easy way to do this?  

Welcome to the Apple Community.
What is it you are trying to access and purchase. If you mean your iTunes account, each of you can still use the one iTunes account and also have your own individual iCloud account for mail and for syncing calendars, contacts etc.

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