What is saved in an iCloud contacts backup?

I was extremely misled, by an Apple Store Genius last night, into doing a full reset to factory settings on my iPhone4s, just due to it starting to get hot.. They didn't even know why it would not reactivate, after reloading the iOS and I had to find out myself today, that it was due to Find my iPhone being on and Activation Lock preventing the activation. A simple login to iCloud and removing my cell from my device list, corrected that problem immediately. I met with 1/2 dozen techs and a manager and none of them knew this??
Anyway, the "genius" had me backup my contacts on iCloud, which I have never used before. They all transferred and I could see them via my laptop, when back at home. After I figured out the activation error, I first tired to setup my iphone as a new phone and decided that was too much work, considering I think my original issue of overheating is a hardware problem anyway, so I plugged in my cell to my laptop and did a restore from the backup I did yesterday..
Much to my extreme, freaking out disappointment, none of my music or ringtones transferred...
My question is, are the ringtones, that I had assigned to different contacts, associated with my saved contacts on iCloud? If so, can I override the contacts on my phone now, (without their personalized ringtones) with the iCloud version, that may still have those associated ringtones?
I build them all individually, editing the parts of the songs that reminded me of that person. I do not see any of them saved on my laptop, though they were visable in iTunes yesterday, prior to this whole mess.
P.S. Now I also have the problem of my iPhone not powering off.. It just comes back on. Read about dock connection problems and water damage, etc., the only thing that ever came near that connector was an Apple charger and one of the "geniuses" cleaning it out for me last night...

If your ringtones are no longer in your iTunes library you're probably out of luck. The iTunes backup doesn't include ringtones because they are assumed to be in your iTunes library.
You can download your contacts from iCloud and replace the contacts on your phone with those, but it isn't going to include your ringtones or their associations with contacts.

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What is saved in an iCloud contacts backup?

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