Boss reading personal emails?

So I send personal emails from my iphone. When i'm at work i use the work email. Every once in awhile I will get a customer that will email my personal email. Also my boss will email my personal email. So every now and then i will access it (my personal email) and see what she (boss) wants. I do not check customers emails or reply on business time. It is during my time. Time logs can show. So I have reason to believe that my employer is reading my personal emails when i'm not at work. With out any probable cause. I do what she says when she says. There's absolutely no reason to check my emails only for the fact of being snoopy.
This is a small town business. We do not have any handbooks, or policies. Also they are paying me as a "contract employee" to avoid paying taxes on me. Which I believe i fall under the common law employee. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Added (1). They checked my personal email on the computer not my phone. But reguardless my personal email is not a company email. The company email is just a gmail account that i created so i didn't use my personal one.Me being a "contract employee" means i don't fall under the regular employee policies.

How could your boss read your personal emails on your personal phone?

any and all information, emails, internet history, etcetera that is on the company computer belongs to your boss.

where are you and what is a "common law" employee?

how you are paid and whether or not you are misclassified is IRRELEVANT to your question about emails…

This is a punishable offense. Same as stealing mail from a physical box. Tampering with mail. Check laws in your state could be a felony

It's a company computer. Employer can read whatever they want. You think your personal messages just go away?

Most companies have policies about using company computer for personal use. Even if not written down - you have no legal complaint - for personal stuff on company equipment. If you get customer emails on your personal account - boss has every right to read what her customers are emailing. There's your "probable cause". Apparently your personal email is company related in that sense. And your personal email belongs to the company in the sense that it is on the company computer. Therefore, belongs to the company - no matter how loud you yell about "personal".

So close your personal account. If you want personal email - use your own devices - such as your phone.

And stop thinking you are big and smart using words like "common law employee" and "probable cause". And being indignant about such things. And kindly stop thinking being a "common law employee" is job protection and you get to do whatever you want because of it. A contract employee can be terminated quicker than a "regular" employee.

"Help" would be --- keep your personal stuff out of the office computer. You do realize all that stuff stays there forever, right? A good IT person can find all that years from now. And as it is on a business computer - it is no longer personal and private.

So stop it and get over yourself. The company computer is not yours for personal stuff.

They own the computer, they can look at what you do on that computer.

They do not need probably cause, this is not a court of law or a police action.

If you think you are an employee and not a contractor, file a form SS8 with the IRS.

"But reguardless my personal email is not a company email." - but you amdit you use it to email your boss on occasion and you check it on the computer at work, whcih they own.