I don't want my contacts to sync my iphone contacts on my daughter's phone.  How do I keep them separate?

I have an iphone 5.  My daughter and husband still have a 4.  We all have separate contact lists and would like to keep it that way.  How do I do this?  I just updated my daughter's phone and now she has everyone's contacts.

Sign into your iCloud account on icloud.com and check your contacts.  If they are there, go to Settings>iCloud and turn Contacts on to download them to your iPhone.  Then, if you don't want to sync contacts with iCloud, go to Settings>iCloud, turn Contacts off and choose Keep on My iPhone.

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