Shared iTunes, Separate Play Lists, Separate iCloud

My iTunes is on our family PC. I own a MacBook Air and an iPod Touch. My daughter has an iPod Touch. We want separate iCloud, but shared iTunes accounts. How do we do this? Right now we share an Apple ID.

Migrate the devices of all but one of you to different accounts with different IDs. You can continue to share the same iTunes ID, it does not need to be the same as your iCloud ID.
Presumably you would want to migrate your daughter to the new account. To do this, start by saving any photo stream photos that she wants to keep to her camera roll (unless already there) by opening her my photo stream album, tapping Select, tapping the photos, tap the share icon (box with upward facing arrow), then tapping Save to Camera Roll. If she is syncing notes with iCloud that she wants to keep, you'll need to open each of them and email them to her so you can later copy and paste the text into new notes created in her new account. Then go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account (which only deletes it from this device, not from iCloud; your device and Mac won't be effected by this), provide the password to turn off Find My iDevice and choose Keep on My iDevice when prompted . Then sign back in with a different Apple ID to create her new account and choose Merge to upload the data.
Once you are on separate accounts you can each go to icloud.com and delete any data you don't want from your accounts.
If she share's the Mac and wants to sync it with her account too, create separate user accounts and you can each sign into your iCloud account within your individual user account.

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