I do not want to pay for extra storage,But i do want a backup to remain on my iMac

I am happy to use icloud for 5gb of free data . As I neared the maximum amount I was e mailed by Apple to ask if i wanted to buy more
cloud space . Not wishing to do that but threatened with loosing my ability to use my me.com e mail account I decided to delte some data stored in the cloud.
Before i did that i went into iTunes on my iMac and backed up my iPhone.
Having done that went back into manage iCloud storage and unticked the box that said back up data ( this was by far the largest amount ).
I am worried by the warning that suggests that data on my iMac will be deleted if proceed .I do not want to delete data on my Imac as i wish to have a back up somewhere . Is this error message incorrect ? . Screen shot below :

iCloud backs up your iOS device (not your Mac) automatically. You can remove the backup:
http://help.apple.com/icloud/#/mm122d3ef202
and it will not back up again. This will not affect a backup made using iTunes. The notice you see refers to calendars, contacts, iWork documents and so on, which live on the server and are read from there by your Mac, and so will obviously disappear if you turn iCloud off altogether (which you don't need to do) or turn off Documents (which you don't need to do either).

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